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Book Synopsis Meyerbeer's Opera L'Africaine by : Giacomo Meyerbeer
Download or read book Meyerbeer's Opera L'Africaine written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meyerbeer's L'Africaine by : Burton D. Fisher
Download or read book Meyerbeer's L'Africaine written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton D. Fisher's extremely popular Mini Guides feature Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of the opera.
Book Synopsis L'Africaine by : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Download or read book L'Africaine written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genesis of Meyerbeer’s last opera, L’Africaine, is something of a legend. He had first considered the subject in 1837 when Scribe presented him with two new drafts, intended to clinch the triumphant successes of Robert le Diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836). The composer began composing Le Prophète immediately, but had the other project ever in his mind. By 1843 a piano score was ready, but the subject as it stood then, concerning Fernando da Soto explorations in West Africa, did not satisfy Meyerbeer. Scribe was asked to rewrite the libretto in 1851, with the hero changed to Vasco da Gama, and focussed on his epic voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to India. A new contract was signed in 1857, and the greater part of the opera was written between 1857 and 1863, in spite of the Meyerbeer’s growing debility. A copy of the full score was delivered to composer the day before he died on 2 May 1864. The opera was performed in a version prepared by François-Joseph Fétis a year later, 28 April 1865, and was a glorious posthumous tribute to its creators. It caused tremendous enthusiasm, and became enormously popular, being performed 60 times in the first four seasons, and eventually receiving 485 performances in Paris until the end of the century. In its glorious vocal writing, resplendent orchestral colouring and fragrant exoticism, it was a source of delight to many, like Franz Liszt. Even in the midst of his residency in the hallowed grounds of the Vatican in May 1865, he was working at Meyerbeer’s last opera: “L’Africaine was the newest sensation of the theatrical music. The heavy brassy Rococo of its strains, its military ensembles, the number of its figurants, as numerous and diverse as a circus train met with upon the road, these worldly contrasts were such a delight to Liszt that his fantasia upon the opera assumed double form and took up two volumes.”1 L’Africaine also shows a progression, even a deepening, in Meyerbeer’s style, with a melodic language that is more Italianate in concept and line, as if Meyerbeer’s sojourn in Italy in 1856 had it subliminal effects.2 Tunes are more like recitatives in style, and come across as much loftier, more serene and aloof:3 It certainly appealed to the singers of the Golden Age, and during the first part of the twentieth century was a favourite of many great tenors (Caruso, Martinelli, Gigli, Bjorling, Piccaver), and later of Domingo. This facsimile of the composer’s manuscript is particularly fascinating. It is clear and hardly annotated at all, and uniquely gives us Meyerbeer’s original intentions before the process of editing and adjustment which he always undertook at rehearsals, in response to dramaturgical exigencies and pressures of time.
Download or read book L' africaine written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meyerbeer's L'Africaine by : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Download or read book Meyerbeer's L'Africaine written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccupied them both since 1838, and it had become legendary as L’Africaine years before its completion. The first version of the opera became known as the Vecchia Africana of the long years of Meyerbeer’s anxious labours on this most troublesome of his operas An adoring public gave Meyerbeer a tumultuous posthumous accolade on the première of L'Africaine on 28 April 1865, a year after his death. This opera which involved Meyerbeer and Scribe’s creative energies for so long includes in one last and splendid achievement many of the elements that had hitherto featured in varying degrees in all their other joint creations. Both composer and librettist were men of immense imagination and genius. Between them, they created four works of great power and beauty that radically affected the history of opera. This study examines the origins and creation of the opera, its dramaturgy and musical style, the history of its astonishing reception around the world until the 1930s, its revival in more recent times. One of the special features of the book is the collection of iconography associated with the work, and its interpretation by many of the greatest singers of the Golden Age of opera. This imagery and many musical examples help to bring out the themes explored in this work more fully.
Download or read book L'Africaine written by Frank Musgrave and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis L'Africaine, Opera in Five Acts, Etc. [Translated from the French.]. by : Hyacinthe Kirsch
Download or read book L'Africaine, Opera in Five Acts, Etc. [Translated from the French.]. written by Hyacinthe Kirsch and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L'Africaine written by Eugène Scribe and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Meyerbeer's L'AFRICAINE Opera Journeys Mini Guide by : Burton D. Fisher
Download or read book Meyerbeer's L'AFRICAINE Opera Journeys Mini Guide written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 by : Giacomo Meyerbeer
Download or read book The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The last years, 1857-1864 written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism. It contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer by : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Download or read book The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Robert Ignatius Letellier and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis Giacomo Meyerbeer by : Marco Clemente Pellegrini
Download or read book Giacomo Meyerbeer written by Marco Clemente Pellegrini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide has resulted from years of research on the papers and music of Giacomo Meyerbeer, and aims to provide a bibliographical aid and point of reference for further research. The first part presents the private papers connected to the composer and his principal librettist, Eugène Scribe—both archival and printed, with working papers and correspondence, as found in Berlin, Paris and some of the famous libraries of the world. The body of Part 2 draws together all the known resources on Meyerbeer's life and historical reputation—from full scale biographies and entries in reference books, through critical discussions to website resources to records of symposia. The third part provides material about his background with its unique mixture of Jewish and Prussian elements, the powerful role of the city of Berlin in his life and work. The fourth part lists bibliographic material for Meyerbeer's music, looking at his operas, grouped as German, Italian and French, with each individual entry providing a record of the scores available, both modern and historical, the various arrangements made from the operas during the heyday of their popularity, reviews of modern performances, discography, and bibliography of studies and publications pertinent to the wider cultural and historical contexts of the works. The next two sections constitute an extended record of material pertinent to the contemporaries of Meyerbeer. In the fifth section are select bibliographies of composers, authors, artists, performers, politicians, those who played some part in the composer's life, or anyone of significance in his wider contemporary circumstances. This is continued in the sixth part where the cultural and aesthetic elements of the composer's milieu, or life in the theatre during seventy years of the nineteenth century, are listed. The seventh part adds a bibliography of social and historical background, where the incidental issues of Judaism in nineteenth-century Europe, and the wider political, historical and geographical circumstances of Meyerbeer's life, his relentless travelling, and closely recorded experiences in Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, England, and Austria. The eighth section provides a thematic key to this extensive material. Part 9 provides an extended tripartite series of lists of the published scores, arrangements and some special studies of Meyerbeer over the period 1820 to 2005—in alphabetical, chronological and thematic ordering. The last two sections furnish the modern equivalent of this record of Meyerbeer and his compositions, showing in Part 11 the list of performances of his operas since the Second World War, and in Part 12, listing the recordings of the operas, both commercial and private, for the same period. The thirteenth and last section is iconographical, pictures that represent an interesting survey of the popular response to Meyerbeer in the 19th century.
Download or read book L'Africaine written by Giacomo Meyerbeer and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building imminently to be demolished.
Book Synopsis The Musical World, 1866-1891 by : Richard Kitson
Download or read book The Musical World, 1866-1891 written by Richard Kitson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog of Music for the Pianola, Pianola Piano and Aeriola by : Aeolian Company
Download or read book Catalog of Music for the Pianola, Pianola Piano and Aeriola written by Aeolian Company and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalog of Music for the Pianola and Pianola Piano by : Aeolian Company
Download or read book Catalog of Music for the Pianola and Pianola Piano written by Aeolian Company and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Modern art songs by :
Download or read book Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Modern art songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: