UNT Press

Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music

Published: May, 2020  Pages: 336  Features: 25 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

Conducting Opera discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. It focuses on Joseph Rescigno’s approach to preparing and performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion of music and drama resulting in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. more... about Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music