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Book Synopsis The Opera Handbook by : John Lazarus
Download or read book The Opera Handbook written by John Lazarus and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines 200 of the most regularly performed operas. Brief composer biographies are followed by opera entries, which include plot summaries, performance histories, notes on the derivation of the theme, suggestions for further reading, and selected discographies.
Book Synopsis Handbook of the Operas by : Edith Bertha Ordway
Download or read book Handbook of the Operas written by Edith Bertha Ordway and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Opera Manual by : Nicholas Ivor Martin
Download or read book The Opera Manual written by Nicholas Ivor Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and you have a few questions. How many clarinets are in the orchestra? How many orchestra members appear onstage? How many different sets are there? How long does the opera typically run? What are the key arias? Are any special effects or ballet choreography required? Who owns the rights? Where was it premiered? What are the leading and supporting roles? The Opera Manual is the only single source for the answers to these and other important questions. It is the ultimate companion for opera lovers, professionals, scholars, and teachers, featuring comprehensive information about, and plot summaries for, more than 550 operas—including every opera that is likely to be performed today, from standard to rediscovered contemporary works. The book is invaluable, especially for opera professionals, who will find everything they need for choosing and staging operas. But it is also a treasure for listeners. Similar reference books commonly skip over scenes and supporting characters in their plot summaries, lacking even the most basic facts about staging, orchestral, and vocal requirements. The Opera Manual, based on the actual scores of the works discussed, is the only exhaustive, up-to-date opera companion—a “recipe book” that will enable its readers to explore those operas they know and discover new ones to sample and enjoy.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon by : Cormac Newark
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon written by Cormac Newark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera has always been controversial, not only because of how vastly expensive it is to produce. It has historically been a vital and complex mixture of high art and commerce, socially elite and popular or middle-class, the new and the increasingly old. When a city wants a new landmark building, an opera house is very often the solution: why should this still be the case? The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by looking at how it evolved from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most arthritically canonic art forms still in existence. This new collection addresses questions that are key to opera's past, present and future. Why is the art form apparently so arthritically canonical, with the top ten titles, all more than a century old, accounting for nearly a quarter of all performances world-wide? Why is this top-heavy system of production becoming still more restrictive, even while the repertory is seemingly expanding, notably to include early music? Why did the operatic canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? And why has that evolution attracted so comparatively little attention from scholars? Why, finally, if opera houses all over the world are dutifully honoring their audiences' loyalty to these favorite works, are they having to struggle so hard financially? Answers to these and other problems are offered here by 26 musicologists, historians, and industry professionals working in a wide range of contexts. Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, and from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. In an effort to reflect the contested nature of most of the issues facing opera, each topic is addressed by two essays, introduced jointly by the respective authors, and followed by a jointly compiled list of further reading. These paired essays complement each other in different ways: for example, by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions and expectations, and breathes fresh air into the fields of music and cultural history.
Download or read book Opera 101 written by Fred Plotkin and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an opera insider and featuring an introduction by Placido Domingo, here is a thorough, friendly, and truly complete guide to learning how to love and appreciate the opera. After a brief history of opera, the book includes a guide to operatic terms, a minute-by-minute listener's guide to 11 central works, a list of recommended books and recordings and much more.
Book Synopsis Opera Production by : Quaintance Eaton
Download or read book Opera Production written by Quaintance Eaton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1961-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera Production was first published in 1961. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Designed particularly as a reference work for opera producers, students, performers, and writers, this book provides basic production information about more than 500 operas. Anyone planning to produce an opera will find here the essential information he needs in order to judge whether a given opera is appropriate to his resources for production. Information for individual operas is given concerning the number and importance of settings; size of orchestra, chorus, and ballet; number of singers, their relative importance and individual requirements; sources for obtaining musical materials' previous performances in America; and the opera story, its period, and composer. Extensive information about 150 full-length operas and 109 short operas is provided, with supplementary information about more than 260 other operas. The operas are alphabetized by title for easy reference. In order to condense the information as much as possible, codes and abbreviations are used, with keys and indexes at the back of the book. This book will be invaluable to those working in either amateur or professional companies, in opera workshops, in school, college, or civic opera groups. Those whose interest in opera is confined to the other side of the footlights will find the book absorbing, too, just as a glimpse backstage would be.
Book Synopsis Handbook of the Operas (Classic Reprint) by : Edith Bertha Ordway
Download or read book Handbook of the Operas (Classic Reprint) written by Edith Bertha Ordway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook of the Operas As they are the Operas chosen by popular interest, the col lection has a wide range in character, varying from lyric comedy to epic tragedy, from simple settings Of allegorical or fair tales to elaborate presentations Of heroic music drarria. 3(their musical rank 1s that Of grand Opera, that 18, opera in which every word 18 sung and the recitative is gen erally accompanied by the orchestra. They are characterized as comic, tragic, fairy, allegorical, sentimental, or heroic, ac cording to the prevailing interest, which is revealed more by the music than by the plot. They are given in alpha betical order for convenient reference, except that the mem bers of Wagner's tetralogy are given under the title, ' The Ring Of the Nibelung. 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 The Complete Opera Book by : Gustav Kobbé
Download or read book The Complete Opera Book written by Gustav Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Opera Book by : Edith Bertha Ordway
Download or read book The Opera Book written by Edith Bertha Ordway and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 600 Jahre Stadt Oelsnitz i. V., 1357-1957 by :
Download or read book 600 Jahre Stadt Oelsnitz i. V., 1357-1957 written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Opera Goers' Complete Guide by : Leo Leop Melitz
Download or read book The Opera Goers' Complete Guide written by Leo Leop Melitz and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The complete opera book : the stories of the operas by : Gustav Kobbé
Download or read book The complete opera book : the stories of the operas written by Gustav Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Opera by : Helen M. Greenwald
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Opera written by Helen M. Greenwald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What IS opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators. The synergy of power, performance, and identity recurs thematically throughout the volume's major topics: Words, Music, and Meaning; Performance and Production; Opera and Society; and Transmission and Reception. Individual essays engage with repertoire from Monteverdi, Mozart, and Meyerbeer to Strauss, Henze, and Adams in studies of composition, national identity, transmission, reception, sources, media, iconography, humanism, the art of collecting, theory, analysis, commerce, singers, directors, criticism, editions, politics, staging, race, and gender. The title of the penultimate section, Opera on the Edge, suggests the uncertainty of opera's future: is opera headed toward catastrophe or have social and musical developments of the last hundred years stimulated something new and exciting, and, well, operatic? In an epilogue to the volume, a contemporary opera composer speaks candidly about opera composition today. The Oxford Handbook of Opera is an essential companion to scholars, educators, advanced students, performers, and knowledgeable listeners: those who simply love opera.
Book Synopsis The New Penguin Opera Guide by : Amanda Holden
Download or read book The New Penguin Opera Guide written by Amanda Holden and published by Penguin USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides biographical sketches for nearly 850 composers along with articles on approximately 2,000 works.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Opera by : Esther Singleton
Download or read book A Guide to the Opera written by Esther Singleton and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1911 Edition.
Book Synopsis Complete Opera Book by : George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood
Download or read book Complete Opera Book written by George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Complete Opera Book by : Gustave Kobbe
Download or read book The Complete Opera Book written by Gustave Kobbe and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
