Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry
Gioia on opera and poetry, including the claim that Sweeney Todd is a great American opera.
Dana Gioia, a poet who has written several libretti himself, considers what opera does that poetry cannot and where the two forms meet. He argues for the American repertoire more strongly than is fashionable, Sweeney Todd among his candidates for the best of it, and writes as a practitioner rather than as a musicologist.
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Tyler Cowen
Weep, Shudder, and Die: On Opera and Poetry, is Dana’s forthcoming book on opera. He claims that Sweeney Todd is one of the two greatest American operas.
Source · October 2024
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