The Story of Opera explores the centuries-old tradition in which the emotional power of music is linked to the human iss......more
Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone is a landmark study that will move the field of musicology in important new directions. ......more
The first book about Elliott Carter’s only opera--or indeed about any single work by this still-productive modern master......more
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This is the second volume of the Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia: The Years of Grace, 1863-1910. Viardot was an ......more
In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politic......more
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The first vocal work and the only opera written by B la Bart k (1881-1945), Bluebeard s Castle is considered the greates......more
Throughout the Ancien R gime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Montev......more
Female characters assumed increasing prominence in the narratives of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera. And ......more
. . . Shatter the printing press. Make each new book a precious object written on skin. (Martin Crimp, extract from Wri......more
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Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassess......more
(Vocal). A joint publication between Casa Ricordi and the University of Chicago Press, this vocal score is based on the ......more
This outstanding volume is a compilation of the most important chapters from two books in which master singers and teach......more
Words for Lori Laitman’s opera, The Scarlet LetterBased on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne Award-winning poet and libre......more
Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse......more
Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur ......more
The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolut......more
In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of......more
G. B. Shaw (1856-1950) wrote The Perfect Wagnerite as a philosophical examination of Richard Wagner s epic four-opera ......more
Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, a......more
(Vocal Collection). The companion accompaniment recordings to the best-selling series in the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology......more
(Vocal Collection). The companion accompaniment recordings to the best-selling series in the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology......more
(Vocal Collection). The companion accompaniment recordings to the best-selling series in the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology......more
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Next to Verdi s A da, Giacomo Puccini s La Boh me is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of A da, La Boh m......more
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Performed throughout Europe during the eighteenth century, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century s most ......more
This book is a well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner’s operas. Wagner’s varied portraya......more
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In this sumptuous new book, leading figures in the world of fashion-- Giorgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Christian Lacroix, Kar......more
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A Midsummer Night s Dream was Benjamin Britten s seventh major opera and had its premiere at Aldeburgh in 1960. Britten ......more
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world s stage. So why do audiences......more
In the Sarasota summer heat of 1960, Florida State University students began an acting company that is now known as the ......more
The Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto houses a major collection of opera and oratorio librettos associa......more
The subject of this book, edited by Lorenzo Frassa, is the Opera-comique as an art form, compositional genre, institutio......more
(MGB). Based on the critical edition. Edited by Alberto Zedda (edition 2009)....more
Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner’s play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complet......more
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When acclaimed novelist Donna Leon is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice, or reveling in delicious......more
An examination of the ultimate power opera grants to singing: the reversal of death. In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grov......more
Vocal Victories is the first musicological comparison of all of Richard Wagner s great female characters. It has long be......more
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This behind-the-scenes look at the world of opera is filled with anecdotes, events, and trivia unknown to most of the ge......more
This extraordinary collection of photographs and essays chronicles the unparalleled career of Maestro James Levine over ......more
Based on the play by Schiller about tragic love and intrigue at the court of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos is among the......more
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Betly, a charming opera by Gaetano Donizetti, tells the story of Betly, an independent Swiss girl resistant to the charm......more
In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and ho......more
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