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La Scala West

Author : Ronald L. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Scala West written by Ronald L. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Ronald L. Davis tells the story of a regional opera company that won international recognition with dazzling productions during its first season and sustained the attention of opera lovers around the world for nearly two decades. In the late 1950s in Dallas, Texas, general manager Lawrence Kelly and artistic director Nicola Rescigno envisioned gorgeous music for the eye and ear. Their intent was to breathe new life into the traditional Italian and French repertory and to spice it with offerings of American premieres of lesser-known works. Although the fledgling company's seasons were short, they were "production for production" of a quality to match those staged in the finest opera houses in the world. In 1958, Maria Callas, the company's first prima donna, gave a towering performance as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata and that same year, in her only American performances of Medea, gave an interpretation of the title role worthy of Euripides. The Dallas Opera's roster of American debuts in its initial decades includes Joan Sutherland, Jon Vickers, Teresa Berganza, Placido Domingo, and Montserrat Caballé. In addition to recruiting the best singers from around the globe, Kelly and Rescigno imported an upcoming generation of European stage designers and directors, among them such now recognized giants as Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Hall. Long before most opera management gave much attention to lighting a stage creatively, they scouted the contemporary Broadway theater to enlist the talents of such lighting designers as Jean Rosenthal and Tharon Musser. Supported by a small group of civic-minded business leaders, the Dallas Opera during its early seasons was perhaps as close as the United States has ever come to having court opera, a modern extension of the jewel-box operas performed in the palaces of Louis XIV and Catherine the Great. Rather than imitate what patrons could see at the Metropolitan in New York, Kelly and Rescigno looked to Europe, and especially to Italy and its singers and artists from the world-renowned opera house in Milan. With their visionary fervor and meticulously crafted productions, Lawrence Kelly and Nicola Rescigno launched "La Scala West," a regional opera company that set the standard for many companies in the decades to come.

A Voyage into the Levant

Author : Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108075223
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Voyage into the Levant written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume account, published in French in 1717 and translated in 1718, of a scientific voyage to the Black Sea.

Spare Time in Texas

Author : David G. McComb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292718896
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Spare Time in Texas written by David G. McComb and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the history of various types of recreation in Texas and shows how Texans' leisure pastimes reveal their characters, in a richly illustrated study that ranges from the frontier period to the present day.

The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera

Author : Giorgio Bagnoli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671870424
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (718 download)

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Book Synopsis The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera by : Giorgio Bagnoli

Download or read book The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera written by Giorgio Bagnoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Author : Kathryn M. Fenton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351594877
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity written by Kathryn M. Fenton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.

La Scala from Planning to Production

Author : Giorgio Lotti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780688034931
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book La Scala from Planning to Production written by Giorgio Lotti and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giacomo Puccini

Author : Linda B. Fairtile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135592349
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Puccini written by Linda B. Fairtile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly recognition of Giacomo Puccini's achievements as a musical dramatist has been growing steadily for more than 75 years. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini.

A Marmac Guide to Dallas

Author : Yves Gerem
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589801998
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Marmac Guide to Dallas written by Yves Gerem and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longtime Dallas resident and travel writer Yves Gerem has completely updated this exhaustive listing of the best restaurants, attractions, accommodations, and more.

Mixed Legal Systems, East and West

Author : Vernon Valentine Palmer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095375
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mixed Legal Systems, East and West written by Vernon Valentine Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing legal scholarship in the area of mixed legal systems, as well as comparative law more generally, this book expands the comparative study of the world’s legal families to those of jurisdictions containing not only mixtures of common and civil law, but also to those mixing Islamic and/or traditional legal systems with those derived from common and/or civil law traditions. With contributions from leading experts in their fields, the book takes us far beyond the usual focus of comparative law with analysis of a broad range of countries, including relatively neglected and under-researched areas. The discussion is situated within the broader context of the ongoing development and evolution of mixed legal systems against the continuing tides of globalization on the one hand, and on the other hand the emergence of Islamic governments in some parts of the Middle East, the calls for a legal status for Islamic law in some European countries, and the increasing focus on traditional and customary norms of governance in post-colonial contexts. This book will be an invaluable source for students and researchers working in the areas of comparative law, legal pluralism, the evolution of mixed legal systems, and the impact of colonialism on contemporary legal systems. It will also be an important resource for policy-makers and analysts.

Start-up at the New Met

Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671476
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Start-up at the New Met written by Paul Jackson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new work, Paul Jackson examines the decade that saw the move from the old house uptown to the technological marvel at Lincoln Center. There Rudolf Bing's final six years give way to four seasons of management turmoil until 1976, when James Levine was named music director and took hold of the Met's artistic future.

The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

Author : Sophia Lambton
Publisher : The Crepuscular Press
ISBN 13 : 1739286340
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography written by Sophia Lambton and published by The Crepuscular Press. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coating opera's roles in opulence, Maria Callas (1923-1977) is a lyrical enigma. Seductress, villainess, and victor, queen and crouching slave, she is a gallery of guises instrumentalists would kill to engineer… made by a single voice. But while her craftsmanship has stood the test of time, Callas’ image has contested defamation at the hands of saboteurs of beauty. Twelve years in the making, this voluminous labour of love explores the singer with the reverence she dealt her heroines. The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide to illustrate the complex of their multi-faceted creator - closing in on her self-contradictions, self-descriptions, attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer's on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams... the double life of all performers. In its unveiling of the everyday it rolls a vivid film reel starring friends and foes and nobodies: vignettes that make up life. It's verity. It's meritable storytelling. Not unlike the Callas art.

West by Southwest

Author : Bennett Lear Fairorth
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440163251
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book West by Southwest written by Bennett Lear Fairorth and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, 81, a retired English teacher, decides to leave his several volunteer tasks for the community to fly west from Abington, Pennsylvania, 12 miles north of Philadelphia, to visit a granddaughter in Las Vegas, Nevada; a sister in Portland, Oregon; an older son in San Francisco, California; and a younger son in Austin, Texas, and the people these 4 live with. He is sure that these travels the 2nd half of August 2007 will be his final flights. After 3 weeks of visiting his family, the author returns home to his 3 volunteer tasks, tutoring 6 Korean women in correct English writing, delivering Meals on Wheels, and working 3 mornings for 3 days in Abington Hospital. He makes plans to spend 10 days in New York City the end of September to attend several Metropolitan operas and several Broadway shows. Before 2007 ends, his older son's daughter makes him a great-grandfather. The author looks forward to his Las Vegas granddaughter's wedding in Atlantic City in June 2008 and to the presidential election November 4. He becomes a great-grandfather for the 2nd time just before Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.

Musical West, Music and the Dance

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Musical West, Music and the Dance written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cranko

Author : Ashley Killar
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803133562
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Cranko written by Ashley Killar and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the New York Times had hailed John Cranko’s achievement as 'The German Ballet Miracle', his death mid-Atlantic deprived the world of one of its greatest choreographers.

Musical America

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Musical America written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Excerpta cypria

Author : Claude Delaval Cobham
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5875320966
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Excerpta cypria written by Claude Delaval Cobham and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1895 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford History of Western Music

Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199813698
Total Pages : 3856 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Oxford History of Western Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 3856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c