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Book Synopsis The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs by : James Camner
Download or read book The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs written by James Camner and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book devoted to photographs of opera singers: not operas, not opera houses, but the stars of opera, the personalities who bring operas to life and to whom audiences and composers owe an everlasting debt of gratitude. In assembling the photos, we tried to find as many examples of great and near-great singers as possible, dating back as early as possible. In general, we did not include singers whose careers began after World War II. - Introduction.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Grove Book of Opera Singers by : Laura Williams Macy
Download or read book The Grove Book of Opera Singers written by Laura Williams Macy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Performing Opera written by Michael Ewans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization, and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early 20th Century Opera Singers by : Nicholas E. Limansky
Download or read book Early 20th Century Opera Singers written by Nicholas E. Limansky and published by YBK Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits of analyzing and comparing the recordings of previous generations of singers with those of the present. He also recounts how markedly record collecting has changed through the decades-especially in large cities like New York-mainly due to technological advance. He not only treats collecting 78 rpm disks, but LPs and CDs as well. Expired copyright now enables many of these early recordings to easily be acquired and collected, enabling the broad-scale comparison of style, technique, and vocal quality among the famous performers of earlier eras. The author points out what to look for among these differences in style, technique, and ability-both good and bad. (On occasion, the most famous are not the best ) With emphasis on today's student and collector, Limansky provides information about where, how, and on what labels given recordings can be found. He discusses printed resources that offer the interested even more information. Beginners and veterans alike will find much of interest in this far-ranging book. Nicholas Limansky studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with major professional choral groups in New York City that include The Bach Aria Group, Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (NY Philharmonic), Opera Orchestra of New York, The Netherlands Ballet, and Alvin Ailey (Revelations, Rainbow). He has written performance reviews for the Italian publication, "Rassegna Melodrammatic," and reviewed new vocal releases of historical singers for "Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer, " and "Opera Quarterly." He lectures at the New York Vocal Record Collectors Society and is a member of its board of directors.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Enrico Stinchelli
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Enrico Stinchelli and published by Gremese International. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of information on the great opera singers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Wagnalls Mabel
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Wagnalls Mabel and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera. A Description of Twelve Operas and a Series of Personal Sketches ... by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera. A Description of Twelve Operas and a Series of Personal Sketches ... written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Divas Confess by : Paul Griffiths
Download or read book When Divas Confess written by Paul Griffiths and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operas most beloved stars, including Placido Domingo and Marilyn Horne, pose in full costume and makeup as they speak about their favorite roles. 100 color illustrations.
Book Synopsis Singers of Italian Opera by : John Rosselli
Download or read book Singers of Italian Opera written by John Rosselli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Book Synopsis Greatest Stars of the Opera by : Enrico Stinchelli
Download or read book Greatest Stars of the Opera written by Enrico Stinchelli and published by Gremese Editore. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly successful title provides the most recent in-depth commentaries and evaluations of each singer's career, repertoire, stylistic and technical qualities. A general overview of operatic trends including a historical introduction, explanatory charts and a full discussion of voice categories is also included.
Book Synopsis Greatest Stars of the Opera by : Enrico Stinchelli
Download or read book Greatest Stars of the Opera written by Enrico Stinchelli and published by Gremese Editore. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A general overview of operatic trends including a historical introduction, explanatory charts and a full discussion of voice categories.
Book Synopsis Stars of the Opera by : Mabel Wagnalls
Download or read book Stars of the Opera written by Mabel Wagnalls and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stars of the Opera: A Description of Twelve Operas and a Series of Personal Sketches, With Interviews of Marcella Sembrich, Emma Eames, Emma Calve, Lillian Nordica, Lilli Lehmann and Nellie Melba Early in the season Of 1898 - 99 there was a performance of Traviata in the Metro politan opera-house Which might be de scribed as an occasion of superlatives including the largest auditorium, the big gest audience, the finest singers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis A Night at the Opera by : Sir Denis Forman
Download or read book A Night at the Opera written by Sir Denis Forman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
