Book Review
Nov. 14th, 2022 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera
by David Littlejohn
This book collects together essays Littlejohn wrote for an opera magazine, and they are aimed at the opera fan rather than the scholarly music community. Each one tackles an aspect or subset of opera. I especially enjoyed the essays about why we tolerate dumb plots, the portrayal of the city of Nuremberg in opera, and Don Giovanni. I found his takes interesting and well thought out, even when I didn't entirely agree.
by David Littlejohn
This book collects together essays Littlejohn wrote for an opera magazine, and they are aimed at the opera fan rather than the scholarly music community. Each one tackles an aspect or subset of opera. I especially enjoyed the essays about why we tolerate dumb plots, the portrayal of the city of Nuremberg in opera, and Don Giovanni. I found his takes interesting and well thought out, even when I didn't entirely agree.
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Date: 2022-11-15 06:18 am (UTC)I would love to read that.
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Date: 2022-11-15 01:38 pm (UTC)It's chapter 8, pp. 172-182.
(I'd scan it for you myself, but the usage stats will help libraries, and the ILL scanning system is better than the copier-scanner here.)
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Date: 2022-11-15 06:40 pm (UTC)Thank you! I didn't know that was an option.