Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera is a lighthearted and entertaining romp through Mexican culture and society. Clara Driscoll and Raymond Hubbell's comic opera features catchy tunes and witty libretto that skewer various aspects of Mexican social life. This book is a must-read for fans...

Mexicana: A Mexican Comic Opera is a lighthearted and entertaining romp through Mexican culture and society. Clara Driscoll and Raymond Hubbell's comic opera features catchy tunes and witty libretto that skewer various aspects of Mexican social life. This book is a must-read for fans...

Parsifal ist das letzte musikdramatische Werk von Richard Wagner. Wagner selbst bezeichnete das dreiaktige St ck als ein B hnenweihfestspiel und verf gte, dass es ausschlie lich im Bayreuther Festspielhaus aufgef hrt werden sollte. Zur Handlung: Auf einer Waldlichtung nahe der Gralsburg weckt Ritter...

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, Ellis also translated Wagner's letters to family and friends. In this 1899 publication, most of the letters are...

Ernest Newman's four-volume Life of Wagner, originally published between 1933 and 1947, remains a classic work of biography. The culmination of forty years' research on the composer and his works (Newman's first Study of Wagner was first published in 1899), these books present a...

Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison's influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including previously unavailable archival materials about Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, this wholly revised edition is both up to...

In The Flying Dutchman, finished in 1841 and first presented at Dresden in 1843, Wagner achieved the first true representation of his mature style as a German Romantic composer. As in his later works, the opera is based on legend, with a simple outline...

Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed....

(Vocal Collection). Many students only need a few opera arias in their vocal study. Selected Opera Arias extracts 10 arias useful to the typical voice student from the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology, with plot notes, translations and IPA, and combines them with the diction...

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period--Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini--regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank? Why has modernist discourse continued to brand these works as overly sentimental and emotionally...

An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology. The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Imagining Musical Pasts explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca. 1880-1935. It focuses primarily on the work of...

Relive the glory of the Metropolitan Opera's 1895 season with this fascinating souvenir book, filled with photos, illustrations, and program notes from the performances of Richard Wagner's greatest operas. This book features full-color reproductions of the original program covers, as well as rare photographs...

This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s...

"What should I perform?" This book is to serve as a study guide of twentyfive works for the dramatic soprano voice with orchestra. Criteria used for inclusion include range, tessitura, orchestral scoring, dramatic intensity, and cultural diversity. There are examples of works dating from...

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders well-works and composers from woman-centric perspectives.Author: Anja BunzelISBN-10: 1032206594ISBN-13:...

EVENINGS AT THE OPERA: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS IN HISTORY ANALYSIS AND APPRECIATIONAuthor: Jeffrey LangfordISBN-10: 1574671871ISBN-13: 9781574671872Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.06w x 0.93dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2011

How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through their opera glasses? The operas studied in this volume are populated by gun-toting and slave-holding Quakers, handsome Native Americans, female middle-class political leaders, rebellious British soldiers and generous businessmen. Most of them display an unprecedented...

First performed in Paris in 1880, La Mascotte is one of the most popular operettas of the 19th century. Combining sparkling music, witty lyrics, and a charming storyline, it tells the tale of a good-luck charm that brings love and fortune to all who...

This practical guide offers tips and suggestions for writing opera librettos. Drawing on his own experiences as a librettist, Edward Istel provides insights into the creative process and offers advice on structure, character development, and collaboration with composers. Co-author Theodore Baker is a well-known...

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary paradigm...

The Story of the Savoy Opera: In Gilbert and Sullivan Days is a book written by S.J. Adair Fitz-Gerald. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the Savoy Opera, a genre of comic opera that emerged in the late 19th...

The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera,...

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics--tools for living developed in poetry--to navigate the challenges of their age. As they endured schisms, ruptures, and failures of ideals, readers and poets turned to the Odyssey...

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a...

The Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international human rights and his country's most celebrated dissident, first gained prominence as a playwright. During the period when Havel was blacklisted by the Czechoslovakian government for his political activism, productions of his work...

Caryl Emerson, a literary specialist, and Robert William Oldani, a music historian, take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of scholarship....

The process of operatic creation revealed in original writings by librettists and composers from 1600 to the present.Author: Ulrich WeissteinISBN-10: 0393004988ISBN-13: 9780393004984Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1969Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.86d

Gygy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed...

Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja was the influential force behind...

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric art form and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch...

Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry. Steigerwald Ille understands The Industry's productions as part of an emerging...

Fidelio is an enduring masterpiece of opera that tells the story of love, sacrifice and heroism. This edition includes the libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner with successive revisions by Stephan Von Breuning and Friedrich Treitschke. The vocal score has been newly revised by Gustav F...

Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry. Steigerwald Ille understands The Industry's productions as part of an emerging...

Gracchus is a grand opera that tells of an unforgettable human drama set to soaring music. The whole unfolds according to the principles of the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), incorporating perennial human themes while embracing music, poetry, dance, scenography, and philosophical reflection in...

One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes Dennis Cleveland and a gift for superimposing pop vernaculars onto avant-garde music. This memoir channels Rouse's high energy personality into an exuberant account of...

Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works is a comprehensive biography of the legendary Italian composer, written by Francis Toye. The book covers Verdi's life from his birth in a small village in Italy in 1813 to his death in Milan in 1901. It explores...

The book ""Memoirs and Letters of Madame Malibran V2"" is a collection of personal memoirs and letters of the famous opera singer, Maria Malibran. The book is a second volume and was originally published in 1840. The memoirs provide an intimate insight into the...

The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera,...

A collection of three of Maeterlinck's plays that explore themes of love, betrayal, and the supernatural. P駘l饌s et M駘isande is a classic tragedy set in medieval times, while Alladine et Palomides and Home are shorter plays that delve into the mysterious and otherworldly.This work...

This book provides a vivid account of the Italian opera singer Maria Malibran's performances at La Scala in Milan in the autumn of 1835. The anonymous author, who is presumed to be a member of the audience, describes Malibran's artistry in detail and provides...

This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers...

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dialogue with a range of sensory and affective modalities, including physical co-presence, textual...

Seeing Opera Anew offers a "stereo" perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a "cultural and biological perspective."Author: Joseph ConeISBN-10: 1032184272ISBN-13: 9781032184272Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2023Pages:...

In the Sarasota summer heat of 1960, Florida State University students began an acting company that is now known as the Asolo Repertory Theatre. Performances were held in the Historic Asolo Theater, relocated from its home in Italy in 1950. Over the past fifty...

Opera is a uniquely captivating form of musical and dramatic storytelling, and in this collection, Marian E. Greene offers ten engaging retellings of classic opera plots. From 'Carmen' to 'The Magic Flute', these stories capture the romance, intrigue, and passion of some of the...

Near the end of his life, Richard Wagner supervised the publication of his collected writings, providing an extensive view of his thoughts about art and politics from his youth to his final period of triumph. After his death, there was still more to be...

Physiology of The Opera is a classical music/opera music study by John H. John. As an introduction to the dissertation upon which we are about to enter, such an antiquarian view of the subject might be taken as would tend to establish a parallel...

Cendrillon est une belle adaptation de Charles Perrault, adaptée pour la scène musicale par Louis Anseaume. L'opéra-comique présente une histoire intemporelle, racontant l'histoire d'une jeune fille opprimée qui finit par trouver l'amour grâce à l'intervention divine. Les auditeurs apprécieront les riches mélodies de l'oeuvre...

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...