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  • Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise by Benitez, Vincent Perez
    Vincent Perez Benitez

    Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise

    In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen's magnum opus, Saint Fran輟is d'Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the opera score...
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  • Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise by Benitez, Vincent Perez
    Vincent Perez Benitez

    Olivier Messiaen's Opera, Saint Francois d'Assise

    In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen's magnum opus, Saint Fran輟is d'Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the opera score...
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  • The Last Opera: The Rake's Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama by Carter, Chandler
    Chandler Carter

    Last Opera: The Rakeas Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama

    From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake's Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and...
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  • Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun by Everett, Yayoi Uno
    Yayoi Uno Everett

    Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun

    Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the...
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  • Musical Realism in Puccini S La Boheme by Giordano, Luca Andrea
    Luca Andrea Giordano

    Musical Realism in Puccini S La Boheme

    For a long time opera was dominated by larger-than-life characters: kings and queens, gods and goddesses, mythic figures with power over life and death. However, as opera became a more and more popular form of entertainment, the perspective changed. The challenge for composers and...
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  • The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio by Leneman, Helen
    Helen Leneman

    The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio

    The Bible and Western culture is a burgeoning area of interest in recent scholarship, but comparatively little has been written on the Bible and music. Leneman's is a groundbreaking work, making some pioneering forays across an important interdisciplinary divide. The Performed Bible is an...
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  • Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera by Kay, Sarah
    Sarah Kay

    Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

    Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouv鑽es from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating...
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  • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Great Savoy Operas by Lepine, Mike
    Mike Lepine

    Gilbert and Sullivan: The Great Savoy Operas

    DELUXE BOOK AND DVD COLLECTION 4 COMPLETE OPERAS ON 4 DVDS The partnership of W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan produced a collection of the most best loved and (still!) oft performed comic operas in the history of theatre. Here is the story of...
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  • Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Wainwright, Robert
    Robert Wainwright

    Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba

    The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. AUSTRALIA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR When most people think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for...
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  • Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches by Thom, Paul
    Paul Thom

    Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

    Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. His argument is that operatic works have the potential to be art, but so do operatic productions, independently of their value as interpretations of...
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  • What Opera Means: Categories and Case-Studies by Wintle, Christopher
    Christopher Wintle

    What Opera Means: Categories and Case-Studies

    A fresh, elegant and vital enquiry into the elusive character of opera, unfolded through categories and case-studies, with an emphasis on historical background, psychology and performance. This book mounts a searching enquiry into the elusive character of opera. The author argues that any work...
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  • Pfitzner's Palestrina: The `Musical Legend' and Its Background by Toller, Owen
    Owen Toller

    Pfitzner's Palestrina: The `Musical Legend' and Its Background

    Investigation of unjustly neglected opera. Hans Pfitzner's musical legend' Palestrina is considered in the German-speaking countries to be one of the supreme masterpieces of music, and yet it is all but unknown elsewhere. The opera, first performed in 1917, tells the story of the...
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  • The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays by Banks, Paul
    Paul Banks

    The Making of Peter Grimes: Essays

    Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera. The premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of the first great composer of opera in English since Purcell. Surviving documents offer evidence...
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  • Wagner and the Wonder of Art: An Introduction to Die Meistersinger by Lee, M. Owen
    M. Owen Lee

    Wagner and the Wonder of Art: An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

    Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell. Toscanini wanted to lay his baton down for the last time only after he had conducted a performance of it. Paderewski called it 'the greatest work of...
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  • La Traviata: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Machlis.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634072625ISBN-13: 9780634072628Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.80w x 1.00d
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  • Roberto Devereux by Donizetti, Gaetano
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Roberto Devereux

    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...
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  • Un Ballo in Maschera (a Masked Ball): Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Un Ballo in Maschera (a Masked Ball): Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian Only Cloth Score.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634071238ISBN-13: 9780634071232Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.20w x 1.00d
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  • Puccini - Manon Lescaut: Opera Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini - Manon Lescaut: Opera Full Score

    (Opera). Casa Ricordi is the original publisher for the unforgettable Italian operas that have made their mark on musical history and now hold a special place in the hearts of millions of music lovers. Now, for the first time, Ricordi makes their full orchestral...
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  • Madame Butterfly: Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Madame Butterfly: Full Score

    (Opera). Ricordi is proud to present the first titles in their new series of orchestral scores featuring engaging images (from Casa Ricordi's historical archives) and synopses in Italian, English, French and German. In addition, these scores feature heavier cover and paper stock plus stronger...
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  • Lessons in Love and Violence: Opera in Two Parts, Vocal Score by Benjamin, George
    George Benjamin

    Lessons in Love and Violence: Opera in Two Parts, Vocal Score

    Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp considers what space, if any, exists for love and human affection inside the dangerous machinery of power. A king, compelled to choose between...
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  • Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House by Aspden, Suzanne
    Suzanne Aspden

    Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House

    Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet...
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  • Macbeth: Libretto by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth: Libretto

    Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793553903ISBN-13: 9780793553907Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 10.10h x 6.40w x 0.50d
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  • Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9 by Horowitz, Joseph
    Joseph Horowitz

    Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9

    As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American obsession was unique. The central...
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  • Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9 by Horowitz, Joseph
    Joseph Horowitz

    Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9

    As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American obsession was unique. The central...
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  • Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances by Davidson, Jane W.
    Jane Davidson

    Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances

    There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera's staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent...
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  • Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other by Davidson, Jane W.
    Jane W. Davidson

    Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other

    There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera's staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent...
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  • Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire by Angelaki, Vicky
    Vicky Angelaki

    Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

    This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and...
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  • Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera by Della Seta, Fabrizio
    Fabrizio Della Seta

    Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera

    Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, Not without...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Greenwald, Helen M.
    Helen M. Greenwald

    The Oxford Handbook of Opera

    What is opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity...
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  • Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience by Attard, Joseph
    Joseph Attard

    Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience

    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 artform and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch opera...
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  • Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; by Coward, Noël
    No? Coward

    Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away;

    Although No? Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthologyrectifies this omission from the musical theatre landscape, demonstrating how Coward's adaptability, creativity,...
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  • Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; by Coward, Noël
    No? Coward

    Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away;

    Author: No? CowardISBN-10: 1350234680ISBN-13: 9781350234680Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 552Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.21w x 1.63d
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  • Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre' by Stenberg, Josh
    Josh Stenberg

    Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'

    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...
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  • The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Aucoin, Matthew
    Matthew Aucoin

    The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera

    A user's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera From its beginning, opera...
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  • Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor by Brooks, Christopher A.
    Christopher A. Brooks

    Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor

    Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man to reach international fame as a concert performer and one of the few artists who could sell out Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Hall, and...
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  • Szymanowski's King Roger: The Opera and Its Origins by Wightman, Alistair
    Alistair Wightman

    Szymanowski's King Roger: The Opera and Its Origins

    A guide to the origins and music of Szymanowski's exquisitely beautiful opera King Roger. Karol Szymanowski (1881-1937), the most important Polish composer after Chopin, wrote only two operas, the second of which, King Roger, completed in 1924, is a masterpiece. After decades of neglect...
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  • Victory Over the Sun by Bartlett, Rosamund
    Rosamund Bartlett

    Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera

    The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this 'anti-opera'...
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  • The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera by Leneman, Helen
    Helen Leneman

    The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera

    This volume focuses on the story of Judith as presented by composers, librettists and playwrights over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists' views of Judith - strongly influenced by societal attitudes of their time - and how...
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  • The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera by Ranno, Danielle
    Danielle Ranno

    The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

    The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, the book covers stage management...
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  • New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 by Bentley, Charlotte
    Charlotte Bentley

    New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859

    A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world. New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 explores the thriving operatic life of New Orleans in the first half of...
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  • Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich by Vincent, Isabel
    Isabel Vincent

    Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

    Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German...
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  • Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century by Glatthorn, Austin
    Austin Glatthorn

    Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

    Author: Austin GlatthornISBN-10: 1316512495ISBN-13: 9781316512494Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 388Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.69h x 6.69w x 0.94d
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  • Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes by Hershberger, Monica A.
    Monica A. Hershberger

    Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes

    The first 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...
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  • Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum by Clausius, Katharina
    Katharina Clausius

    Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum

    A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the "Telemacomania" scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes. Imaginatively structured as a guided tour, Opera and the Politics of Tragedy captures the tumultuous impact of the...
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  • Zarzuela!: Tenor by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    Zarzuela!: Tenor

    (Music Sales America). Songs from the Zarzuela for Tenor 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...
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  • Song and Self: A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance by Bostridge, Ian
    Ian Bostridge

    Song and Self: A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance

    Award-winning singer Ian Bostridge examines iconic works of Western classical music to reflect on the relationship between performer and audience. Like so many performers, renowned tenor Ian Bostridge spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take part in live music. The enforced silence...
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  • The Stage Works of Philip Glass by Waters, Robert F.
    Robert F. Waters

    The Stage Works of Philip Glass

    "The Stage Works of Philip Glass discusses Glass's stage works from 1976 up to the present day, with chapters established according to different criteria. Three introductory chapters address the validity versus invalidity of terms such as minimalism, post-minimalism, postmodernism, and neo-Romanticism, together with a...
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  • The Scarlet Libretto: Text for Lori Laitman's Opera, the Scarlet Letter by Mason, David
    David Mason

    The Scarlet Libretto: Text for Lori Laitman's Opera, the Scarlet Letter

    Words for Lori Laitman's opera, The Scarlet LetterBased on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne Award-winning poet and librettist David Mason, author of Ludlow and other books, has given new life in verse to Hawthorne's classic novel. By distilling the book's narrative line and adding...
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  • Wagner's Ring in 1848: New Translations of the Nibelung Myth and Siegfried's Death by Haymes, Edward
    Edward Haymes

    Wagner's Ring in 1848: New Translations of the Nibelung Myth and Siegfried's Death

    Makes available in reliable English translation Wagner's original Siegfried libretto and his early essay on the Nibelung myth. In 1848 Richard Wagner began what would become the largest stage work of his career, the Ring of the Nibelung. In preparation for the task he...
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  • Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works by Reaney, James
    James Reaney

    Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works

    James Reaney is one of Canada's favourite poets and playwrights; at the intersection of his dramatic and poetic talents is Scripts, a collection of musical writings. There are nine complete works here, including the chamber opera Night-blooming Cereus, the poetry/music collage (and Governor General's...
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