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Giuseppe Verdi’s operas have a special place in the hearts of audiences and in music history. They are grand in scale an......more
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In Character: Opera Portraiture memorably captures operatic performers away from the audience but fully inhabiting their......more
Examines the impact of contemporary ideas about the psyche and neglected yet crucial artistic influences on the psycholo......more
A riveting story of fatal attraction between a beguiling, strong-willed gypsy and a naïve but passionate soldier who fal......more
Giuseppe Verdi’s career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history. The passion of his works resonates universal......more
Michael Steen provides a compendium of self-standing short guides to twenty-five of the world s greatest and most popula......more
Today Mozart’s exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumu......more
Drawing upon gender studies, musicology, German studies, and literary theory, this book develops a feminist analytic fra......more
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This exhibition catalogue traces more than one hundred years of Cantonese opera in Edmonton within the changing dynamics......more
Essays and memoirs by and about one of Britain’s leading symphonists. A lively collection by contributions from Roger Sc......more
Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, ......more
Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful strug......more
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In some ways, the successor of vaudeville and an extension of the opera and operetta, the stage musical has evolved into......more
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Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi s operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer s career. The fir......more
On Stage shows everything that must be done before the curtain can be lifted and the prepared decorations of an opera ho......more
Ernest Newman s four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biogra......more
The Tenor is a sweeping tale of historical fiction in the style of Ann Patchett s Bel Canto and De Burniere s Captain Co......more
A master of the bel canto style, Vincenzo Bellini (1801-35) ranks among his era s most popular composers. His much studi......more
The Tenor is a sweeping epic tale of historical fiction in the style of Ann Patchett s Bel Canto and De Burniere s Ca......more
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The History of Opera For Beginners is a humorous, little book which starts with the radical assumption that Opera is jus......more
Das Rheingold, Die Walk re, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner concei......more
The standard operaglass containing the detailed plots of one hundred and twenty-three celebrated operas, with critical a......more
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The Black Dog Opera Library is the best, easiest and most informative and budget-friendly way to enjoy four of the great......more
The opera Carmen contains some of the famous and popular themes in the repertoire. This arrangement takes several of the......more
The esoteric symbolism of the opera Parsifal unveiled: discover the incredible knowledge hidden within Arthurian legend.......more
Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know ......more
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Musically sound and fully annotated, this new reference work provides ready access to over 700 excerpts from 100 operas,......more
The opera Carmen contains some of the famous and popular themes in the repertoire. This arrangement takes several of the......more
The production of Wagner s operas is fiercely debated. In this groundbreaking stage history Patrick Carnegy vividly evok......more
The standard operaglass detailed plots of the celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc., et......more
William Kinderman’s detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of ......more
"Bring my goat!" Porgy exclaims in the final scene of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Bess, whom he loves, has left for......more
Der vorliegende kommentierte Bibliothekskatalog zur Richard Wagner-Sammlung der Zentralbibliothek der Universitätsbiblio......more
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek t......more
Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-cent......more
This rich selection of twenty-nine alto-range opera arias spans from the dawn of Italian opera to the late nineteenth ce......more
This rich collection of twenty-three soprano-range opera arias ranges from the dawn of Italian opera through the late 18......more
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Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dalla......more
Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelubde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical the......more
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Verdi s Attila, his ninth opera, had its premiere at Venice s Teatro La Fenice in March 1846. Based on the German play A......more
Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresar......more
Organized in conjunction with the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, this book contains fourteen contributions ......more
Cynthia Verba s book explores the story of music s role in the French Enlightenment, focusing on dramatic expression in ......more
(Vocal Collection). This all-in-one package includes the original Arias for Mezzo-Soprano book from the G. Schirmer Oper......more
(Vocal Collection). This all-in-one package includes the original Coloratura Arias for Soprano book from the G. Schirmer......more
(Vocal Collection). This all-in-one package includes the original Arias for Baritone book from the G. Schirmer Opera Ant......more
(Vocal Collection). This all-in-one package includes the original Arias for Soprano book from the G. Schirmer Opera Anth......more
The annals of Covent Garden theatre from 1732 to 1897 y Henry Saxe Wyndham With 45 illustrations. In two volumes 1, 1828......more
Through a deft compilation of primary sources--letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and ......more
One of the most controversial figures in classical music, Richard Wagner s influence reaches as far as the film Apocalyp......more
Handlung in drei Aufzgen. For voice and piano. An important addition to the newly produced orchestral materials by Schot......more
On 632 pages, Ioan Holender, former director of the Vienna State Opera, recollects all 118 premieres of his term, which ......more
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Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorg......more
In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel updates her work on opera......more
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Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispen......more
The first comprehensive study of Verdi’s perennially popular opera Il trovatore, written by one of the world’s great Ver......more
A history and re-evaluation of the American musical in London between 1945 and 1972, a unique panoramic essay on British......more
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lover......more
An insider s view of the opera world from one of its greatest figures. Everything about opera is larger than life, but t......more
A vocal coach who has been in the vanguard of classical music in Canada for more than six decades. Stuart Hamilton is a ......more
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the hi......more
This is the first-ever guide to the magnificently rebuilt Royal Opera House, filled with color illustrations and photogr......more
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