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Author : Andrew Saint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1732-1982 written by Andrew Saint and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Saint
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780946338016
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book A History of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1732-1982 written by Andrew Saint and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1982 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Ashton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Royal Opera House Retrospective 1732-1982 written by Geoffrey Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Warren Oakley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526129140
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Thomas ‘Jupiter’ Harris written by Warren Oakley and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Thomas Harris: confidant of George III, ‘spin doctor’, philanthropist, sexual suspect, brothel owner, and the man who controlled Covent Garden theatre for nearly five decades.
Author : Scott L. Balthazar
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810879433
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Opera written by Scott L. Balthazar and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas were produced to greater acclaim. Those periods inevitably have pride of place in this Historical Dictionary of Opera, as do exceptional singers, and others who combine to fashion the opera, whether or not they appear on stage. But this volume looks even further afield, considering the cities which were and still are opera centers, literary works which were turned into librettos, and types of pieces and genres. While some of the former can be found on the web or in other sources, most of the latter cannot and it is impossible to have the whole picture without them. Indeed, this book has an amazingly broad scope. The dictionary section, with about 340 entries, covers the topics mentioned above but obviously focuses most on composers, not just the likes of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, but others who are scarcely remembered but made notable contributions. Of course, there are the divas, but others singers as well, and some of the most familiar operas, Don Giovanni, Tosca and more. Technical terms also abound, and reference to different genres, from antimasque to zarzuela. Since opera has been around so long, the chronology is rather lengthy, since it has a lot of ground to cover, and the introduction sets the scene for the rest. This book should not be an end but rather a beginning, so it has a substantial bibliography for readers seeking more specific or specialized works. It is an excellent access point for readers interested in opera.
Author : Ruth Bereson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415278511
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Operatic State written by Ruth Bereson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bereson investigates the elite and privileged status of the closed-world of opera, and the way states have financed and supported it since its beginnings.
Author : Lewis Foreman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300104028
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book London written by Lewis Foreman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential companion to musical London
Author : Clive Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Financial Scrutiny of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Ltd written by Clive Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Sakmyster
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595293697
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The Belhurst Story written by David J. Sakmyster and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cliff overlooking Seneca Lake in upstate New York, the Belhurst Castle proudly stands at the site of previous mansions and Indian fortresses, a place riddled with history and fantastic legends. Rumors abound of hauntings, hidden treasure, underground tunnels, and a curse on those who disturb old burial grounds. Eccentric and passionate individuals lived and died here over the centuries. Some, perhaps, have never left. Built originally as a private residence, the Belhurst Castle was transformed into a casino, supper club and speakeasy. Currently, it is an upscale dining establishment with a banquet hall and a luxurious inn. Its history, and the tale of this property, is as richly detailed as its red stone walls and elaborate carved wood interiors. The folklore that has sprung up in the last century, a rich tale of tragically doomed lovers, collapsed escape tunnels and the ghost of a woman in white, have remained an enduring mystery-until now. After extensive research and astounding personal experiences, the truth is revealed and it is stranger than fiction, but altogether compelling.
Author : Theodore Fenner
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319121
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Opera in London written by Theodore Fenner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.
Author : Jon Tolansky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134425139
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Reflections '97 written by Jon Tolansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections, the Yearbook of the Music Performance Research Centre, is published as an issue within the international journal Musical Performance series. It features articles written by musicians and interviews with performers. Reflections '97 includes an interview with the tenor Jon Vickers and a personal memoir of the conductor Carlos Kleiber.
Author : Giles Whiteley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474443745
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843-1907 written by Giles Whiteley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting an 'aesthetic', post-realist tradition of writing, this book considers the significant role played by John Ruskin's art criticism in later writing which dealt with the new kinds of spaces encountered in the nineteenth-century.
Author : Jennifer Hall-Witt
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656258
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Fashionable Acts written by Jennifer Hall-Witt and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant look at changes in British elite culture through the lens of opera-going
Author : Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133950
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (339 download)
Download or read book The Piozzi Letters: 1817-1821 written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Robbins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527581721
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Displacing Female Bodies on the Eighteenth-Century Stage written by John Robbins and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacing Female Bodies on the Eighteenth-Century Stage is driven by a central question: why were women playwrights in the Romantic period obsessed with silencing their female characters, pushing them off the stage, and announcing the removal of their own texts to the closet? These playwrights were some of the most well-known and commercially successful writers of their era, but were paradoxically also among its most marginalized figures: they were mocked by largely conservative audiences, suffered intense criticism for placing their works on display before the public eye, and frequently found their plays rejected by theater managers in favor of works by established male playwrights. This book argues that these writers did not simply craft plays that would please the crowd, but that they deftly incorporated the suppressions and subjugations to which they were subject into their works. It demonstrates that within their plays, gaps in discourse and representation contain a productive capacity, denoting spaces of imaginative potential or drawing into focus the conditions by which such silencing and erasure takes place, and argues that the long-standing critical misapprehension of these works stems from precisely these strategies of resistance, which of necessity took non-traditional forms and thus have not been readily recognizable to audiences, then or now.
Author : Jessica K. Quillin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317055543
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Shelley and the Musico-Poetics of Romanticism written by Jessica K. Quillin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a gap in Shelley studies, Jessica K. Quillin explores the poet's lifelong interest in music. Quillin connects the trope of music with Shelley's larger formal aesthetic, political, and philosophical concerns, showing that music offers a new critical lens through which to view such familiar Shelleyan concerns as the status of the poetic, figural language, and the philosophical problem posed by idealism versus skepticism. Quillin's book uncovers the implications of Shelley's use of music by means of four musico-poetic concerns: the inherently interdisciplinary nature of musical imagery and figurative language; the rhythmic and sonoric dimensions of poetry; the extension of poetry into the performative realms of the theatre and drawing room through close links between most poetic genres and music; and the transformation of poetry into music through the setting and adaptation of poetic lyrics to music. Ultimately, Quillin argues, Shelley exhibits a fundamental recognition of an interdependence between music and poetry which is expressed in the form and content of his highly sonorous works. Equating music with love allows him to create a radical model in which poetry is the highest form of imaginative expression, one that can affect the mind and the senses at once and potentially bring about the perfectibility of mankind through a unique mode of visionary experience.
Author : Therese Radic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349086703
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Melba written by Therese Radic and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-09-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the world-famous opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, this book provides fresh insights into her character and motivations. It describes her childhood in Australia, her studies in Paris, her rise to fame and the fascination which she inspired up to the time of the mysterious illness which caused her death. Melba is presented as a shrewd, self-made woman, financially and personally independent. She managed her greatest asset - her voice - and her earnings cleverly so that the voice lasted the distance of a long and strenuous career, and her investments enabled her to enjoy life on a grand scale. She dictated the terms of her own life and rose to unsurpassed heights in her chosen profession. The book's large format enables the main text to be supplemented by lengthy footnotes running down the outside margins, providing additional historical and anecdotal information.
