How Long to Read History is Our Mother: Three Libretti

How Long Does it Take to Read History is Our Mother: Three Libretti?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read History is Our Mother: Three Libretti by Alice Goodman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations. An NYRB Classics Original Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been popular—and, in the case of Klinghoffer, highly controversial—ever since they were first staged by the director Peter Sellars in the eighties and nineties. Both operas were conceived from the start as collaborations between composer and writer, and their power is due as much to the dazzlingly constructed and deeply felt libretti of the poet Alice Goodman as they are to John Adams’s music. Nixon in China is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it. Klinghoffer, by contrast, has at its center the tragedy of an innocent man condemned at the cost of his life to play a part in history. History Is Our Mother, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in Nixon in China, brings Goodman’s two libretti together for the first time in book form. Included alongside Goodman’s no less inspired translation of Emanuel Schikaneder’s famous libretto to The Magic Flute, these vivid dramas of character and searching meditations on fate are here revealed as among the most original, ambitious, and accomplished poetic achievements of our time.

How long is History is Our Mother: Three Libretti?

History is Our Mother: Three Libretti by Alice Goodman is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read History is Our Mother: Three Libretti Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read History is Our Mother: Three Libretti aloud.

What Reading Level is History is Our Mother: Three Libretti?

History is Our Mother: Three Libretti is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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