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Author:Edward Said
Said on Opera
One of the late twentieth century's most celebrated and influential public intellectuals, Edward W. Said was also a critic of astonishing range. This book presents his insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas--originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997--showcasing...- $20.00
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Author:Edwin Booth
Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth: As Produced by Edwin Booth
Edwin Booth's production of Macbeth is considered a classic of the American stage. In this volume, Booth provides a detailed account of his interpretation of the play, including his approach to the characters, settings, and costumes. This book is a must-read for theater enthusiasts...- $29.95
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Author:Margaret Ross Griffel
Operas in English: A Dictionary
Operas in English have a long, rich, and varied history encompassing everything from the English masques of the 17th century to today's crossover music dramas such as Harvey Milk and Rent. This book covers in detail more than 3,500 English-texted operas by composers including...- $83.00
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Author:Vincent Giroud
French Opera: A Short History
French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth, and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles--Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila--a small list for...- $75.00
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Author:John Hunt
Wiener Staatsoper - 348 Complete Relays
Discography of live complete opera performances listed chronologically from 1937-2015. Vienna State Opera. One of the many discographies compiled by John Hunt and published by Travis & Emery.Author: John HuntISBN-10: 1901395324ISBN-13: 9781901395327Publisher: John HuntLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2017Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d- $29.95
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Author:Emily Dollman
Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community Engagement
What is the role of classical music in the 21st century? How will classical musicians maintain their relevance and purpose?This book follows the working activities of professional orchestral musicians and opera singers as they move off stage into schools, community centres, prisons, libraries, and...- $170.00
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Author:Steven Huebner
Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera: Conventions and Creativity
A long-needed and up-to-date overview of the syntax and principles that make Verdi's operas so effective and so beloved today. Verdi's art emerged from a rich array of dramatic and musical practices operative in the Italy of his day. Drawing the reader into his...- $120.00
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Author:Jessica Waldoff
The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that...- $29.99
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Author:Jeffrey L. Buller
Classically Romantic: Classical Form and Meaning in Wagner's Ring
What did Richard Wagner know about ancient Greece? More importantly, what did he think he knew? How did Wagner's attitudes about classical tragedy shape the Ring cycle?In this book, internationally acclaimed scholar Jeffrey L. Buller explores how Wagner's views about ancient tragedy helped him...- $18.50
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Author:Edgar Istel
The Art Of Writing Opera-Librettos: Practical Suggestions (1922)
The Art of Writing Opera-Librettos: Practical Suggestions is a book written by Edgar Istel and originally published in 1922. The book is a guide for aspiring librettists who wish to write opera librettos. It provides practical suggestions and advice on how to write compelling...- $24.95
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Author:Jessica Waldoff
The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute
Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that...- $90.00
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Author:Thomas Bauman
Opera and the Enlightenment
This is the first collection of essays to explore the wide dimensions and influence of eighteenth-century opera. In a series of fresh articles by leading scholars in the field, new perspectives are offered on the important figures of the day, including Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck,...- $35.99
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Author:Magnus Tessing Schneider
The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni
The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart's and Da Ponte's opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766-1825). Author: Magnus Tessing SchneiderISBN-10: 1032158336ISBN-13: 9781032158334Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...- $52.95
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Author:Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Leonard Warren: American Baritone
The great baritone Leonard Warren was history's most notable interpreter of Verdi, making his mark in the title roles of Rigoletto, Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra. Warren's dramatic death over 40 years ago is famous: he collapsed and died onstage at the Met on March...- $48.00
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Author:Thomas Adès
Powder Her Face: An Opera in Two Acts, Full Score
Thomas Adès and Philip Hensher's dazzlingly precocious chamber opera Powder Her Face propelled its composer to international attention after its premiere in 1995 and remains one of the most frequently performed British operas of the last two decades. Charting the glamorous rise and seedy...- $150.00
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Author:Giuseppe Verdi
I Lombardi: Vocal Score
Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793528615ISBN-13: 9780793528615Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 10.50h x 7.80w x 1.00d- $49.95
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Author:Gioacchino Rossini
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Libretto
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Author:Regina B. Oost
Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896
Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B. Oost examines advertisements, promotional materials, and programs, as well as letters, diaries, and account books, to reconstruct the ways in which Richard D'Oyly Carte, W.S. Gilbert, and Arthur Sullivan...- $170.00
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Author:Andreas Giger
Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Focusing on Verdi's French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French versification while gradually bringing his works in line with French melodic aesthetic. In his first French opera, J rusalem, Verdi treated the text...- $70.99
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Author:John Holland
The Lost Tradition of Dvořák's Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism
The Lost Tradition of Dvořák's Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism examines Antonín Dvořák's operas, specifically Jakobín and Rusalka, from a critical standpoint, focusing on such criteria as tonal structures, thematic material and motives, subject matter, Czech folklore and musical influences, textual language, nationalism, characters,...- $95.00
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Author:Roger Allen
Richard Wagner's Beethoven (1870): A New Translation
Indispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner's philosophy and the aesthetics of music. Despite the enormous and accelerating worldwide interest in Wagner leading to the bicentenary of his birth in 2013, his prose writings have received scant scholarly...- $115.00
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Author:Barbara Hendricks
Lifting My Voice
Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After graduation from the Juilliard School of Music, Hendricks immediately won a number of important international prizes, and began performing in recitals and operas...- $32.95
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Author:Richard Stahl
Song Words Of The Lion Tamer: Comic Opera, In Two Acts (1891)
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Author:John Philip Sousa
The Bride Elect: Comic Opera In Three Acts
John Philip Sousa's beloved operetta tells the story of an arranged marriage that is complicated by the arrival of a former flame. With catchy tunes and witty lyrics, it is a delight for audiences of all ages.This work has been selected by scholars as...- $33.95
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Author:Timothy Cheek
Pr'hody lisky Bystrousky, The Cunning Little Vixen: Translations and Pronunciation
This entire volume is organized in a clear, readable format, resulting in a book that will help to make productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before.Author: Timothy CheekISBN-10: 0810846713ISBN-13: 9780810846715Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2003Pages:...- $101.00
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Author:Alexandra Wilson
Puccini in Context
Exploring the many dimensions of Giacomo Puccini's historical legacy and significance, this book provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved opera composer and demonstrates how political concerns shape the way we approach and perform his works in the present day....- $115.00
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Author:Robert Lawrence
Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
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Author:Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic "experiences" outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated,...- $160.00
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Author:Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
The Jewels Of The Madonna
This stirring opera tells the story of an ordinary woman living in Naples who is driven to extraordinary deeds by her love for the Madonna. Wolf-Ferrari's intricate score and vivid characters make this a must-see for opera lovers around the world.This work has been...- $29.95
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Author:William S. Gilbert
The Pirates of Penzance: Or the Slave of Duty Vocal Score
(Vocal Score). The Pirates of Penzance, premiered in 1879, confirmed the comic genius of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan, following on the heels of their wildly successful H.M.S. Pinafore . Pirates invade the rocky coast of Cornwall in this topsy-turvy tale of...- $19.99
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Author:Leone Magiera
Pavarotti Up Close
(Misc). Pavarotti Up Close is an unprecedented and affectionate portrait of the greatest tenor of the twentieth century, told through the eyes of his longtime musical coach and accompanist Leone Magiera. The secrets of the legendary voice are revealed for the first time, written...- $35.95
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Author:Albert Lavignac
The Music Dramas Of Richard Wagner And His Festival Theatre In Bayreuth
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $23.95
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Author:Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia Di Lammermoor: Libretto
Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 0793528291ISBN-13: 9780793528295Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d- $6.95
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Author:Caryl Clark
Haydn's Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage
This fascinating study of ethnic theatrical representation provides original perspectives on the cultural milieu, compositional strategies and operatic legacy of Joseph Haydn. The portrayal of Jews changed markedly during the composer's lifetime. Before the Enlightenment, when Jews were treated as a people apart, physical...- $95.99
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Author:Thomas Bauman
North German Opera in the Age of Goethe
This book is the first study of the development of German opera in northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the...- $59.99
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Author:Eva Rieger
Richard Wagner's Women
This book is a well-researched and exhaustive analysis of the role of women in Wagner's operas. Wagner's varied portrayal of the relationships of the sexes is revealingly interpreted. There was no doubt that Wagner regarded women subservient to men. This comes out not only...- $39.95
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Author:Michael S. Richardson
Medievalism and Nationalism in German Opera: Euryanthe to Lohengrin
Medievalism, or the reception or interpretation of the Middle Ages, was a prominent aesthetic for German opera composers in the first half of the nineteenth century. A healthy competition to establish a Germanic operatic repertory arose at this time, and fascination with medieval times...- $52.95
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Author:Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Gedda: My Life and Art
This autobiography is the first full-length book in English on Nicolai Gedda, born in Sweden in 1925 but deeply influenced by his Russian-born stepfather, himself a singer with a renowned Russian emigr choir. A leading tenor throughout the latter half of the 20th century,...- $35.00
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Author:Martin Nedbal
Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present
Author: Martin NedbalISBN-10: 1009257595ISBN-13: 9781009257596Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2023Pages: 306Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.75d- $110.00
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Author:Vincenzo Bellini
La Sonnambula: Vocal Score
Author: Vincenzo BelliniISBN-10: 0634072536ISBN-13: 9780634072536Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1996Pages: 201Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.10w x 0.80d- $36.95
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Author:Mark a. Radice
Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini
OPERA IN CONTEXT ESSAYS ON HISTORICAL STAGING FROM THE LATE RENAISSANCE TOAuthor: Mark a. RadiceISBN-10: 1574670328ISBN-13: 9781574670325Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 410Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.95h x 7.16w x 1.19d- $50.00
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Author:Oscar Wilde
Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act
"Salomé" is a 1891 play in one act by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant...- $13.99
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Author:Mary Jean Clauss
Opera in Old San Francisco: A Brief Anecdotal History
Gold was the lure Opera in the world's western hemisphere - whether sung in Italian, French, German, or English - began in the Spanish colonies of South and Central America. Years before operas were first staged in San Francisco, opera companies flourished in Lima,...- $19.95
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Author:Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West: Full Score
(Study Score). Paperback edition with new art cover.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 1423403479ISBN-13: 9781423403470Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2005Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.40lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.70w x 1.00d- $39.95
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Author:Mary Ann Smart
Mimomania: Music and Gesture in Nineteenth-Century Opera Volume 13
When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "the most enthusiastic mimomaniac" ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements. Mary Ann Smart suspects that Nietzsche...- $31.95
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Author:Roberto Ignacio Díaz
Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse
Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps unexpectedly, the archives of opera generate new arguments about several...- $99.95
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Author:Roberto Ignacio Díaz
Latin America and the Transports of Opera: Fragments of a Transatlantic Discourse
Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps unexpectedly, the archives of opera generate new arguments about several...- $39.95
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Author:Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut: A Lyric Drama In Four Acts
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Author:Nicholas Vazsonyi
The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia
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...- $46.99
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Author:William Foster Apthorp
The Opera Past and Present
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