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Download or read book The Enjoyment of Opera (II). written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Schofield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Enjoyment of Opera written by Peter Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Blyth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780193210509
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Enjoyment of Opera written by Alan Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth M. Cameron
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780023184307
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)
Download or read book The Enjoyment of Theatre written by Kenneth M. Cameron and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Gentle
Publisher : Gollancz
ISBN 13 : 9780575083516
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Black Opera written by Mary Gentle and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2013 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. In this world of miracles, Conrad is an atheist - he sees the same phenomena, but sees no need to attribute them to a Deity ... until his first really successful opera gets the opera-house struck by the lightning bolt of God's disapproval ... ... And Conrad comes to the attention of the Prince's Men, a powerful secret society, who are trying to use the magic of music to their own ends - in this case, an apocalyptic blood sacrifice. Life is about to get interesting for Conrad.
Author : Nigel Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233000053
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Joy of Opera written by Nigel Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2000 publication by Andre Deutsch and is distributed by Trafalgar Square. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Morris Maduro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773103566
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Opera-- Anyone? written by Morris Maduro and published by . This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Gehring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Basis of Musical Pleasure written by Albert Gehring and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claudio E. Benzecry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226043428
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Opera Fanatic written by Claudio E. Benzecry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.
Author : Fred Plotkin
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1401306004
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Opera 101 written by Fred Plotkin and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 512 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.
Author : Robert Donington
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300056617
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Opera and Its Symbols written by Robert Donington and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the use of symbolism in opera, interprets scenes from Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Stravinsky, and Britten, and stresses the importance of staging an opera in accord with the composer's intended use of symbols
Author : Kenneth M. Cameron
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Enjoyment of Theatre written by Kenneth M. Cameron and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Enjoyment of Theatre's" balanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre for both majors and non-majors. This text covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. The 6th Edition features major revisions while continuing to bring students the expertise of a proven author team--one whose strong academic credentials combine with a wealth of theatre experience. Cameron and Gillespie make theatre come alive for all students by showing them how theatre is, and will continue to be, relevant to their everyday lives. New and Notable Features: " Offers a balance of history and performance to give students a context for understanding today's theatre and the social impact of the theatre since its inception. Features two 16-page color inserts with new color photographs of Broadway productions by New York's finest theatrical photographers bringing Broadway to life for students. New and unique "Explore Theatre: A Backstage Pass" is a peer-to-peer, interactive, DVD learning tool (available in a free package with the text) developed by students for students under the direction of an award winning teacher of theatre. Seventeen major content areas (director, actor, costume designer, etc.) are covered, with an eye towards introducing students to the people and processes that make theatre happen. Emphasizes theatre's cultural and economic context in extensively revised chapters throughout the book, to sugest how forces outside the theatre influence it. Integrates material on world theatre throughout the text rather than discussing it in a separate chapter. Includes new "Story of the Play"discussions that summarize some of the great plays that are used as examples in the book for students.
Author : Bernard Williams
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300142285
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book On Opera written by Bernard Williams and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's 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 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 essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. --From publisher's description.
Author : Kristine Forney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393639032
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Enjoyment of Music written by Kristine Forney and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 60 years, this text has led the way in preparing students for a lifetime of listening to great music and understanding its cultural and historical context. The Thirteenth Edition builds on this foundation with NEW coverage of performance and musical style. NEW tools help students share their deepening listening skills and appreciation in writing and conversation.
Author : Axel Englund
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520974700
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Deviant Opera written by Axel Englund and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.
Author : Downing A. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521801881
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 written by Downing A. Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture.
Author : Michel Poizat
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801423888
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Angel's Cry written by Michel Poizat and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French in 1986, is now available in Arthur Denner's fluid and sensitive English translation. Predictably, Poizat's route is not at all a conventional one. Rather than taking as his point of departure the intentions of composers and librettists, he is primarily concerned with the expectations and desires of the audience. He reports on an informal group interview with overnight standees on the Paris Opera House steps as they compare notes on how opera became an addiction.
