Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

Like many great artists throughout the millennia, Richard Wagner wrote his operas as allegories which can be represented in ways that range from the mundane to the esoteric. When Wagner's cryptic esoteric messages are deciphered they tell a story about the evolution of human...

"When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true are actually figurative. Art can idealize those symbols, and so reveal the profound truths they contain." - Richard Wagner...

The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. Rather, it's a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine...

"The Great Operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" is a detailed account of the life and work of Mozart by Gustav Kobb , with a particular focus on his operatic compositions. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was a seminal German composer of the classical...

If you are looking to expand your opera career to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland... If you want to work as a full-time singer (Fest) in one or more opera houses... If you are curious about what life is like as a singer in a...

Parsifal, by Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner was german composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor (1813-1883).Author: The Perfect Library, Richard WagnerISBN-10: 1506148239ISBN-13: 9781506148236Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2015Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

Title: Semele, HWV 58 Composer: George Frideric Handel Original Publisher: Deutsche H ndelgesellschaft The complete score to Handel's Semele, HWV 58, as originally published as part of the Deutsche H ndelgesellschaft, Band 7, in 1860 with German introduction and English and German text. Performer's...

Drawing on both scholarly studies and production experience, Timothy Cheek presents an original English-language translation of the original Czech libretto of Leos Janáček's, most famous opera, Jenůfa. Cheek also provides background on the opera, a discussion about the various voice types and roles, Janáček's...

An evocative retelling of the Czech Velvet Revolution using found text, choral music, and scenes inspired by V clav Havel's Van k plays. The work was originally presented at the Walter Bruno Theater at Linclon Center, as part of the New York Public Library...

This book focuses on "operatic" Italian (literary Italian in the classic mode) Parts of speech provide the framework, each of which is illustrated by extracts from many operas. The author works his way from the simple (nouns and articles) to the complex (past subjunctive)...

This new translation of the original texts of over 750 songs allows the reader to follow, line by line, the English directly opposite the German. Will no doubt become the standard lieder-resource for the English-speaking world... - ChoiceAuthor: Dietrich Fischer-DieskauISBN-10: 0879100044ISBN-13: 9780879100049Publisher: LimelightLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Best known for his fundamental work on acting, Stanislavski was deeply drawn to the challenges of opera. His brilliant chapters here on Russian classics--Boris Gudonov and The Queen of Spades among them--as well as La Boheme will amaze and delight lovers of opera. Also...

Listeners, performers, students and teachers will find here the analytical tools they need to understand and interpret musical evidence from the baroque era. Scores for eleven works, many reproduced in facsimile to illustrate the conventions of 17th and 18th century notation, are included for...

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses...

In January 1856, Margaret Garner--an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation--ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return...

This book serves as an aid to anyone seeking to perform and gain a deeper understanding of this multi-layered opera, which so trenchantly asks what it means to be human, to love, and to be loved in return.Author: Timothy CheekISBN-10: 0810883058ISBN-13: 9780810883055Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage:...

Opera for Everyone is a concise history of opera that concentrates on artistic and cultural aspects and links up to history, art, and literature, rather than potted plots, anecdotes, and biographies of composers and performers. Each of the 25 chapters deals with around three...

From its earliest appearance in the mid-1600s, the lyric theater form of zarzuela captivated Spanish audiences with its witty writing and lively musical scores. Clinton D. Young's Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880-1930 persuasively links zarzuela's celebration of Spanish history and culture...

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a...

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music...

In his new concluding chapter, Peter Kivy advances his argument on behalf of a distinctive intellectual and musical character of opera before Mozart. He proposes that happy endings were a musical--as opposed to a dramatic--necessity for opera during this period and that Mozart's Idomeneo...

(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Jeffreys.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793584760ISBN-13: 9780793584765Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.80d

(Vocal Collection). Contents: Mozart: Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln (Abduction from the Seraglio) * Ach, ich liebte (Abduction from the Seraglio) * Una donna a quindici anni (Cosi fan tutte) * Per pieta., ben mio (Cosi fan tutte) * Batti, batti (Don Giovanni) * Vedrai,...

Julian Young presents Richard Wagner as an important philosopher of art and life, first as a utopian anarchist-communist and later as a Schopenhauerian pessimist. Understanding Wagner's philosophy is crucial to understanding his operas, as it is to understanding Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger.Author: Julian YoungISBN-10:...

(Music Sales America). Songs from the Zarzuela for Baritone with piano accompaniment, including notes on the dramatic context of each song and English literal translations by Christopher Webber. This unique collection presents celebrated songs from Zarzula, the popular Spanish tradition of music theatre which...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety...

Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that...

Though his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner's obsession with sexuality prefigured the...

If the opera world is full of "intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics," then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world's richest music. Drawing...

The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues...

The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin, and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and G rard Grisey...

Speculative Masonry was pervasive in eighteenth century society, when Mozart (a Freemason) composed The Magic Flute.Author: Paul NettlISBN-10: 1258116375ISBN-13: 9781258116378Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d

Il Matrimonio Segreto, also known as The Secret Marriage, is a comic opera written by Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa in 1792. The story is set in 18th century Italy and follows the tale of Carolina, the daughter of Geronimo, a wealthy merchant who wants...

""The Singing Girl"" is a comic opera in three acts written by Stanislaus Stange and first published in 1899. The story revolves around a young woman named Rosalind who dreams of becoming a famous singer. She falls in love with a wealthy man named...

The Idol's Eye is a comic opera written by Harry Bache Smith and originally published in 1897. The story follows the adventures of a group of American tourists who travel to Europe and become embroiled in a series of comic misadventures. Along the way,...

The Tattooed Man: A Comic Opera is a book written by Harry Bache Smith and was first published in 1907. The book is a comic opera, which means that it is a musical play that is characterized by its humorous and lighthearted tone. The...

The Wizard of the Nile is a comic opera in three acts, first performed in 1895. The book was written by Harry Bache Smith, an American playwright and lyricist. The story is set in Egypt and follows the adventures of an American tourist named...

Orphee Aux Enfers, also known as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comedic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1868. The story is a satirical retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in contemporary Paris. The operetta is divided into four...

Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as well as the ambiguities and contradictions...

Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortil ges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal...

Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortil ges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal...

The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the...

How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there,...

Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Grist-Pinkerton.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0634071327ISBN-13: 9780634071324Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 0.80d

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the...

Several generations before Schubert, the Lied emerged as domestic entertainment destined to move beyond the home to the symphony hall. This introductory chronicle of this fascinating genre analyzes the Lied in its musical, literary, and cultural contexts--with chapters devoted to focal composers; influence of...

The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera is a much-needed introduction to one of the most defining areas of Western music history - the birth of opera and its developments during the first century of its existence. From opera's Italian foundations to its growth through...