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On Opera

Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089769
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book On Opera written by Bernard Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This elegant volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including sparkling essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. Reflecting Williams's brilliance, passion, and clarity of mind, these essays engage with, and illustrate, the enduring appeal of opera as an art form.

Opera

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803273184
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Opera written by Linda Hutcheon and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts. This is an examination of how opera uses the singing body to give voice to the suffering person. It presents medical and literary sources to make sense of the changing depiction of disease in opera.

Opera

Author : Franklin Mesa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477288
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Opera written by Franklin Mesa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

Opera 101

Author : Fred Plotkin
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401306004
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Opera 101 written by Fred Plotkin and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you. Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover--a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces the reader (whatever his or her level of musical knowledge) to all the elements that make up opera, including: A brief, entertaining history of opera; An explanation of key operatic concepts, from vocal types to musical conventions; Hints on the best way to approach the first opera you attend and how to best understand what is happening both offstage and on; Lists of recommended books and recordings, and the most complete traveler's guide to opera houses around the world. The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of eleven key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca through works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedentedly detailed and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.

Opera for the People

Author : Katherine K. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199371652
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Opera for the People written by Katherine K. Preston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.

Opera Through Other Eyes

Author : David J. Levin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722407
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Opera Through Other Eyes written by David J. Levin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 8 essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis, long the exclusive preserve of musicologists. The contributors include some of the most distinguished critics of the past 30 years, most of them writing about opera for the first time.

Eyewitness Companions: Opera

Author : Leslie Dunton-Downer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756643902
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness Companions: Opera written by Leslie Dunton-Downer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 400 years of musical drama, Eyewitness Companions: Opera is your guide to the musical world. Explore operas and composers from the late Renaissance on, including such classical masters as Verdi, Puccini, and Bizet. Eyewitness Companions: Opera is the complete visual guidebook to the great operas, their composers and performance history. Eyewitness Companions: Opera includes more than 160 operas by 66 composers around the world. This richly illustrated eBook includes act-by-act plot synopses and storyline highlights, plus detailed profiles cover composers, Librettists, singers, and more.

Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Season of Opera

Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802083876
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book A Season of Opera written by M. Owen Lee and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Lee is internationally known for his commentaries on opera. This book gathers his best commentaries and articles on 23 works for the musical stage, from the pioneering Orpheus of Monteverdi to the forward-looking Ariadne of Richard Strauss.

Opera for Everybody

Author : Susie Gilbert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057126865X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Opera for Everybody written by Susie Gilbert and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.

Tin Pan Opera

Author : Larry Hamberlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195338928
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Tin Pan Opera written by Larry Hamberlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Larry Hamberlin guides us through the large but oft-forgotten repertoire of operatic novelties, and brings to life the rich humour and keen social criticism of the ragtime era.

Collier's

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collier's written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chapters of Opera

Author : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752301899
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Chapters of Opera written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Chapters of Opera by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Illustrated World

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated World written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Opera Viva

Author : Ezra Schabas
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770700978
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Opera Viva written by Ezra Schabas and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country. The Canadian Opera Company was born in 1950, and is now one of the major opera companies in North America. The Company has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, and has delighted audiences as far away as Australia and Hong Kong, all the while finding the time to record frequently and develop special operatic presentations for children. More than just a group of performers, the COC also provides a training program for young professional singers, and a series of commissions of new works from both up-and-coming and established composers. Opera Viva is a history of the Company, but it is more than that: it is also a history of Canada’s cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century, a time when the Canadian Opera Company became central to Canada’s musical life. As the story of the Company unfolds, the figures and personalities that were integral to the building of this landmark of Canadian culture are brought to life.

OPERA FOR LOVERS.

Author : KIRI TE KANAWA & C WILSON.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747277491
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book OPERA FOR LOVERS. written by KIRI TE KANAWA & C WILSON. and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nine Famous Operas

Author : Iris J. Arnesen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786460067
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Nine Famous Operas written by Iris J. Arnesen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine operas, presented in chronological order from 1791 to 1928. These great works are most readily approached with an understanding of the conventions of the several operatic genres as well as the social conditions that influenced the composers and librettists. The popular and intellectual movements that influenced the operas and the original source material are also discussed. The operas are Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Strauss' Salome, and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.