Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

Giroud and Kayetell the full story of The Tales of Hoffman for the first time. After discussing the work's influences and history, the book details sources for the opera, including the complete Barbier and Carr? play. The annotated libretto is published in full, with...

The Dove of Peace is a comic opera in three acts written by Wallace Irwin and first published in 1912. The story follows the adventures of a group of travelers who are stranded in a small European country during a revolution. The main character,...

""An Adventure of Don Quixote"" is a novel written by George Alexander Macfarren and originally published in 1846. The book is a retelling of the classic Spanish novel ""Don Quixote"" by Miguel de Cervantes, which follows the adventures of a delusional nobleman who believes...

Author: Pyotr Il TchaikovskyISBN-10: 079357367XISBN-13: 9780793573677Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 10.45h x 6.77w x 0.09d

A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote...

The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York's Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager. Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than...

Author: Robert F. WatersISBN-10: 1107628067ISBN-13: 9781107628069Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2023Pages: 277Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

The Sho-Gun: An Original Comic Opera is a book written by George Ade and published in 1904. The book is a light-hearted and humorous take on the story of a Japanese Shogun who travels to America to find a wife. The story is set...

Such Sweet Compulsion: The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrar is a memoir written by the renowned American opera singer, Geraldine Farrar. The book chronicles her life from her childhood in Massachusetts to her rise to fame as one of the most celebrated opera singers of...

This book examines the impact of the daily life, political climate and artistic institutions of Vienna on its musicians and musical tastes between 1815 and 1830. Emphasis is given to Beethoven, Schubert, Paganini and Johann Strauss where their careers reflect typically Viennese musical life...

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.Author: Susan Fenty Studham, Michele KayISBN-10: 0367566575ISBN-13: 9780367566579Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2024Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 10.00h...

Heinrich Marschner was a prominent German composer of the early 19th century, known for his operas and other theatrical works. In this book, Hans Gaartz provides a comprehensive overview of Marschner's operas, including detailed synopses and analyses of each work, as well as historical...

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles,...

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by George Eilliott Clarke, Missing by Marie Clements, Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Shelter...

This first of the classic two-volume survey of Handel's operas was first published in 1987 and reissued in a revised paperback edition in 1995. Now it is brought back into print in a year which has seen numerous productions and recordings of the operas...

(Opera). This classic oratorio, premiered in 1938, has not had chorus parts in the original French text available for sale until this new release.Author: Arthur HoneggerISBN-10: 0634095439ISBN-13: 9780634095436Publisher: Editions SalabertLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Pages: 75Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 12.00h x 8.90w x 0.20d

This book is exceptional amongst those that have appeared so far in this well-established series, in that it is largely written by those who worked with the composer and assisted him during the period in which the opera was composed and first put on...

Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and...

Author: Axel K?rnerISBN-10: 1108826881ISBN-13: 9781108826884Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2024Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.71d

Originally performed in Paris in 1831, 'Zampa, or the Marble Bride' is a popular opera with a beautifully crafted score. This three-act opera tells the story of two lovers whose fates are entwined with that of the villainous pirate Zampa. A must-read for fans...

Nicholas Tarling's Orientalism and the Operatic World places opera in the context of its steady globalization over the last two centuries, offering key insights into such notable operas as George Frederic Handel's Berenice, Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, Giacomo Puccini's MadamaButterfly, Pietro Mascagni's Iris, and others....

This invaluable primer will introduce the uninitiated to the mysteries of opera and help more experienced buffs to expand their understanding and deepen their appreciation of the art form. An Invitation to the Opera provides an accessible and completely comprehensive look at opera's rich...

Jean de Reszke was one of the greatest singers of the golden age of opera, and this book provides a fascinating window into his life and times. With its engaging prose and fascinating insights into the world of opera, The Operatic Age of Jean...

Varia Opera Mathematica D. Petri De Fermat, Senatoris Tolosani (1679) est liber qui continet varia opera mathematica, quae a D. Petro De Fermat, Senatoris Tolosani, scripta sunt. In hoc libro, Fermat tractat de geometria, algebra, arithmetica et alia mathematica disciplina. Praeterea, in hoc libro,...

Through a deft compilation of primary sources--letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers--Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known...

Investigates how opera shapes national character through its representations of gender, sexuality, and class.Author: Richard DellamoraISBN-10: 0231109458ISBN-13: 9780231109451Publisher: Columbia University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/1997Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.11w x 0.73d

Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In...

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi ('pear garden theatre'), heir and current expression of one of China's oldest unbroken xiqu ('Chinese opera') traditions. It considers the genre's history prior to the 20th century, its signal successes...

Well-known as a composer and philanthropist, Gordon Getty's compositions include orchestral, chamber, and piano pieces, but most prolifically, vocal works: four operas, a dramatic cantata, and numerous choral pieces and songs. Less well known is the fact that he has also written or adapted...

Conducting Opera discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. It focuses on Joseph Rescigno's approach to preparing and performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion...

Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy. Central to his life and his ideas were the music and personality of Richard Wagner, whom he both...

Once thought to be a provincial composer of only passing interest to eccentrics, Leos Janácek (1854-1928) is now widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and original creative figures of his time. Banned for all purposes from the Prague stage until the age...

Volume Three covers roughly a quarter of a century, a period which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, the reform of the Conservatories, and the spread of cosmopolitan influences to an extent that convinced many that Italian music was losing...

Volume Two covers those works written during the decadence of the post-Rossini period. During this time, Verdi, having exhausted the vein of simple lyricism to be found in Il Trovatore and La Traviata, achieved self-renewal in direct confrontation with the masters of the Paris...

Author: Lewis C. StrangISBN-10: 1608883418ISBN-13: 9781608883417Publisher: Collapsar ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.09lbsSize: 6.00h x 4.00w x 0.12d

Vox Eurydice: The Ascent of the Female Rescuer in German-Language Opera is a mythological and depth psychological analysis written from a feminist perspective, on the emergence of the theme of rescue stories, and specifically plots where a female heroine saves a male character, which...

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous examines f?erie, the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological...

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. Author: Caitlin VincentISBN-10: 0367553937ISBN-13: 9780367553937Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d

Strauss Salome: A Guide To The Opera (1907) by Lawrence Gilman is a comprehensive guide to the famous opera Salome composed by Richard Strauss. The book provides a detailed analysis of the opera's plot, characters, and music. It also includes historical and cultural context,...

La Traviata is one of Verdi's most famous operas, centering on the doomed love between the courtesan Violetta Val?ry and the nobleman Alfredo Germont. Set in 19th-century Paris, the opera explores themes of love, sacrifice, and societal pressures, with a haunting score that captures...

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing...

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as...

Fidelio is Beethoven's only complete opera and one of the most admired, and problematic, in the repertoire. This Opera Handbook explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within the work as well as the debt to the traditions of French opera in the late...

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera.Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and provides discussion on historical and political context. With further reading lists, key term...

Feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera...

"Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas have attained a secure place in the repertory. His insight into the workings of this uniquely...

Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersinger's narrative.Author: Christopher KimbellISBN-10: 1032390328ISBN-13: 9781032390321Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2024Pages: 184Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h...

The German actress Minna Planer (1809-66) was Wagner's first wife. Though it lasted until her death, their marriage, never an easy one, was punctuated by long periods of separation, and during its early years Minna was the main breadwinner. William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned...

William Ashton Ellis (1852-1919) abandoned his medical career in order to devote himself to his Wagner studies. Best known for his translations of Wagner's prose works and of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's multi-volume biography of the composer, Ellis published in 1911 this English translation of...

Author: Anthony ArblasterISBN-10: 0860916189ISBN-13: 9780860916185Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/1997Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.81h x 5.75w x 1.05d