Though the distance between opera and popular music seems immense today, a century ago opera was an integral part of Ame......more
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A landmark event in the world of music, Mozart s seven major librettos have finally been translated in verse with a spar......more
Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur ......more
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Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world’s most romantic, flamboyant, glamoro......more
In 1935 George Gershwin continued the melding of theatrical, classical, and jazz idioms he began with "Rhapsody in Blue ......more
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There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what pro......more
As a commentator on music and music critics, Bernard Shaw was experienced and knowledgeable, strongly opinionated, and, ......more