Verdi at the Met

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. A debut 1
6. Berio 2
7. Paths to Montsalvat 12
8. Carter 21
9. Da lontano 29
10. Gubaidulina 34
11. A handful of pianists 37
12. Purcell 1995 46
13. Around New York 60
14. Tippett 65
15. Being in Assisi 72
16. Boulez 90
17. The composer’s voice 109
18. Mozart 1991 125
19. A decade of Don Giovannis 145
20. Henze 155
21. Operatic passions 160
22. Vivier 184
23. At the movies 199
24. Schoenberg on the stage 208
25. Five British composers 219
26. Lachenmann 225
27. Mapping Mtsensk 231
28. Stockhausen 236
29. Behind the rusting Curtain 247
30. Verdi at the Met 255
31. A quintet of singers 270
32. Schnittke 276
33. How it was, maybe 283
34. Reich 292
35. Tracks in Allemonde 303
36. Birtwistle 323
37. A departure 344
38. Further reading and listening 347
39. Index 351