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Jeremy Commons letters to Solange Bak

Title: Jeremy Commons letters to Solange Bak, 1984-1994.
Author: Commons, Jeremy.
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Summary

The Jeremy Commons Letters to Solange Bak consist of a set of letters from the opera scholar received by Bak over a ten-year period.

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Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Biography (note)

Music scholar Jeremy Commons is an authority on nineteenth-century Italian opera, perhaps best known for his association with the London-based Opera Rara record label.

Language (note)

The Jeremy Commons Letters to Solange Bak include one item in Italian.

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JPB 06-29

OCLC

NYPG06-A135

Author

Commons, Jeremy.

Title

Jeremy Commons letters to Solange Bak, 1984-1994.

Biography

Music scholar Jeremy Commons is an authority on nineteenth-century Italian opera, perhaps best known for his association with the London-based Opera Rara record label. Commons taught English literature at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand for many years, specializing in the Augustan period, until his 1989 retirement allowed him to turn his attention full time to opera-related projects. Commons' varied research interests have included composers that range from the well known (Gaetano Donizetti) to the more obscure (Giuseppe Balducci). In addition to preparing informational booklets to accompany the Opera Rara anthology, A Hundred Years of Italian Opera, Commons has published numerous articles and written program notes for opera companies, including the Australian Opera and the San Francisco Opera. A former president of the New Zealand Opera Society, in recent years Commons has been involved with staging intimate "salon" operas under the auspices of Sirius Opera, including a 2006 performance of two works with libretti by Commons, Mrs. Windemere and The Genteel Pigeons.

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