Essays on the Montemezzi-D'Annunzio Nave - 2nd Edition - Hardcover

by David Chandler (Editor), Monica Cuneo (Translator), Duane D. Printz (Foreword by)

This lavishly illustrated book, the first in English on Montemezzi, is a documentary record of La Nave's creation and critical reception and an exploration of its composer's ultimate failure to claim a central place in the history of Italian opera. This revised and expanded second edition includes reviews and essays by thirty critics with a full introduction to the opera Montemezzi considered his masterpiece.