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Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009431
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Aida written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452911916
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Aida written by and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clyde T. McCants
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Aida written by Clyde T. McCants and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Verdi was asked to compose a work to premiere in the Cairo Opera House. Although Verdi was uninterested in the project at first, persistence on the part of the khedive as well as a tempting plot line written by Mariette Bey drew him in. Much mystery still surrounds the opera's inception. This book explores that mystery"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Massimo Zicari
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374216X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Verdi in Victorian London written by Massimo Zicari and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s operas, in spite of their alleged worthlessness? Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times. In the 1840s, certain London journalists were positively hostile towards the most talked-about representative of Italian opera, only to change their tune in the years to come. The supercilious critic of The Athenaeum, Henry Fothergill Chorley, declared that Verdi’s melodies were worn, hackneyed and meaningless, his harmonies and progressions crude, his orchestration noisy. The scribes of The Times, The Musical World, The Illustrated London News, and The Musical Times all contributed to the critical hubbub. Yet by the 1850s, Victorian critics, however grudging, could neither deny nor ignore the popularity of Verdi’s operas. Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. Nostalgic commentators began to lament the sad state of the Land of Song, referring to the now departed "palmy days of Italian opera." Zicari charts this entire cultural constellation. Verdi in Victorian London is required reading for both academics and opera aficionados. Music specialists will value a historical reconstruction that stems from a large body of first-hand source material, while Verdi lovers and Italian opera addicts will enjoy vivid analysis free from technical jargon. For students, scholars and plain readers alike, this book is an illuminating addition to the study of music reception.
Author : Gilles de Van
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226143705
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Theater written by Gilles de Van and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity. Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lie in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator.
Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442245441
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Orientalism and the Operatic World written by Nicholas Tarling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western opera is a globalized and globalizing phenomenon and affords us a unique opportunity for exploring the concept of “orientalism,” the subject of literary scholar Edward Said’s modern classic on the topic. Nicholas Tarling’s Orientalism and the Operatic World places opera in the context of its steady globalization over the past two centuries. In this important survey, Tarling first considers how the Orient appears on the operatic stage in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States before exploring individual operas according to the region of the “Orient” in which the work is set. Throughout, Tarling offers key insights into such notable operas as George Frideric Handel’s Berenice, Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, Giacomo Puccini’s MadamaButterfly, Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, and others. Orientalism and the Operatic World argues that any close study of the history of Western opera, in the end, fails to support the notion propounded by Said that Westerners inevitably stereotyped, dehumanized, and ultimately sought only to dominate the East through art. Instead, Tarling argues that opera is a humanizing art, one that emphasizes what humanity has in common by epic depictions of passion through the vehicle of song. Orientalism and the Operatic World is not merely for opera buffs or even first-time listeners. It should also interest historians of both the East and West, scholars of international relations, and cultural theorists.
Author : Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100052485X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today, Verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier research. For researchers who have not spent years with the Verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of this giant’s fife and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeed. It is primarily for these researchers that this guide is intended. Its purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer, presenting enough material in annotations that researchers may survey the many myriad directions Verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interested.
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190273984
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Verdi written by Julian Budden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.
Author : Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136317236
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.
Author : Nancy Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1616779195
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 2 - Symphony Themes, Opera Gems and Classical Favorites written by Nancy Faber and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). In this inspiring collection, late-elementary to early-intermediate pianists will find appealing arrangements that advance skills while exploring masterworks of Western music. The famous orchestral, keyboard, and operatic repertoire here spans four periods of music history. In the Baroque & Classical section, discover the elegance of Bach, the beauty of Mozart and the passion of Beethoven. Through the pages of the Romantic & Impressionistic section, sample the lyricism of Chopin, the drama of Grieg, and the atmosphere of Debussy. May the melodies of these and many other composers open an enduring world of expression and sound.
Author : Caroline Ellsmore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351731637
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Verdis Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz written by Caroline Ellsmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.
Author : Fabrizio Della Seta
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226749142
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Not Without Madness written by Fabrizio Della Seta and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these 12 essays, the author explores the concept of opera as a dramatic event and an essential moment in the history of theatre. Examining the meaning of opera and the devices that produce and transmit this meaning, he looks at the complex verbal, musical and scenic mechanisms in parts of 'La Sonnambula', 'Ernani', 'Aida', 'Le Nozze di Figaro', 'Macbeth' and 'Il Trovatore'. He argues that approaches to the study of opera must address performance, interpretation, composition, reception, and cultural ramifications.
Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061576
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Analyzing Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a great deal of new material. It also presents new interpretations of materials discussed earlier and elsewhere. As the editors point out in the introduction, discussion of opera has only in recent years taken on an analytical dimension. The scholars represented in this volume are among those at the forefront of the new critical and analytical movement. What they write is perhaps at times controversial, but it is always important."--William C. Holmes, University of California, Irvine "The editors' introduction to this collection. . . speaks eloquently for a richer and more varied approach to the analysis of opera. . . . The contributors are among the most accomplished scholars in nineteenth-century music studies. . . . More impressive is the depth and range of scholarship and analysis displayed. . . to the end of changing the historical and analytical stance toward the operas of Verdi and Wagner, by eschewing the partisan quarrels of the past and by the application of similar rigorous standards to each composer's music. . . . This volume will have a wide influence upon scholarly and analytical approaches to the music of Verdi and Wagner."--Richard Swift, University of California, Davis "This book presents a great deal of new material. It also presents new interpretations of materials discussed earlier and elsewhere. As the editors point out in the introduction, discussion of opera has only in recent years taken on an analytical dimension. The scholars represented in this volume are among those at the forefront of the new critical and analytical movement. What they write is perhaps at times controversial, but it is always important."--William C. Holmes, University of California, Irvine
Author : James Redmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521221801
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Themes in Drama: Volume 3, Drama, Dance and Music written by James Redmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys madness in drama. It includes articles on "The Duchess of Malfi"; virginity and hysteria in "The Changeling"; the confined spectacle of madness in Beys's "The Illustrious Madmen"; The male gaze in "Woyzeck" - representing Marie and madness; and other drama examples.
Author : Marcello Conati
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494307
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Encounters with Verdi written by Marcello Conati and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of reminiscences, interviews, memoirs, and essays by a wide-ranging group of people--journalists, musicians, impresarios, or chance acquaintances--who met the reclusive and secretive composer at various moments during his long life. Each entry has a relevant place within the chronology of Verdi's life, and every reference to an unfamiliar event or name in the text is explained in the copious footnotes.
Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521889987
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera written by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.
Author : Michael Veseth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742536593
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Globaloney written by Michael Veseth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veseth separates rhetoric from reality by taking close-ups of classic globalization images and comparing them with unexpected alternative visions.
