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Author : George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood, Earl of
Publisher : London : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Complete Opera Book written by George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood, Earl of and published by London : Putnam. This book was released on 1956 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : Putnam Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Definitive Kobbé's Opera Book written by Gustav Kobbé and published by Putnam Adult. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of more than 300 operas, with musical examples. Also gives dates, places, and casts of significant premieres and revivals of each work.
Author : Anthony Peattie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Kobbé's Opera Book written by Anthony Peattie and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : London : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Kobbé's Complete Opera Book written by Gustav Kobbé and published by London : Putnam. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Denis Forman
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307807827
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
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.
Author : Fred Plotkin
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
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.
Author : Julian M. Kunkel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783319413204
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (132 download)
Download or read book High Performance Computing written by Julian M. Kunkel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference, ISC High Performance 2016 [formerly known as the International Supercomputing Conference] held in Frankfurt, Germany, in June 2016. The 25 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: Autotuning and Thread Mapping; Data Locality and Decomposition; Scalable Applications; Machine Learning; Datacenters andCloud; Communication Runtime; Intel Xeon Phi; Manycore Architectures; Extreme-scale Computations; and Resilience.
Author : Gustave Kobbé
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Complete Opera Book written by Gustave Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Earl Of Harwood
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446490750
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The New Pocket Kobbé's Opera Book written by Earl Of Harwood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Pocket Kobbe's Complete Opera Book is the world's leading reference work on opera, and (in the words of Bernard Levin) 'no single-volume operatic guide can possibly compare with it'. Kobbe is the only book which summaries the libretti of the world's opera, describes their music and gives a history of their performance within a single volume. But it is a large and relatively expensive book. The new pocket edition, at a price accessible to the huge new audience for opera, has been redesigned and extended, existing entries have been rewritten, and new operas included. The total number of works covered is now over 200, including important new works like John Adams Nixon in China, Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain and Thomas Ades's Powder Her Face, and a number of half-forgotten works that are now undergoing revival. Unlike the previous edition, it is now simply arranged, alphabetically by composer. Lord Harewood's strongly individual commentaries, together with his unparalleled knowledge of and enthusiasm for opera, make the New Pocket Kobbe a book no opera-goer can afford to be without.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reading at Risk written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089533
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A History of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Author : David Pogue
Publisher : For Dummies
ISBN 13 : 9780764550102
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Opera For Dummies written by David Pogue and published by For Dummies. This book was released on 1997-09-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pogue is a wonderful teacher… He can teach anybody.” — Gay Talese, bestselling author of Honor Thy Father “Scott Speck is a great communicator of classical music…. Concert audiences and readers alike can’t help getting caught up in the joy of his subject.” — David Styers, American Symphony Orchestra League Opera is weird. Everybody wears makeup and sings all the time. Even when they’re singing your language, which is rare, you still can’t understand the words. Women play men, men play women, and 45-year-olds play teenagers. All the main characters seem to get killed off. And when somebody dies, he takes ten minutes to sing about it. Yet, for all its weirdness, an operatic experience is an experience in breathtaking beauty. When you hear a soprano float a soft high C, or a tenor singing a love song, or a full-throated chorus in the climax of a scene’s dramatic finale, you can’t help getting goosebumps. Want to experience all that beauty for yourself, but don’t know where to begin? Opera For Dummies is an excellent place to start. Written by an acclaimed conductor and a musical director, this friendly guide tells you what you need to know to: Understand opera from the Baroque and Roman periods through today Interpret characters, orchestra, chorus, and other players Understand what’s happening, both on stage and off Choose the best seats Identify famous operas Build a great collection of opera recordings Locate opera sites and chat groups online Whether you’re interested in attending a live opera, want to build a collection of recordings, or just want to be able to talk about opera intelligently, Opera For Dummies is for you. Among other things, you’ll explore: The words, the music, and the people who sing it The history of opera and the lives of the great composers Going to the opera — including tips for getting tickets, preparing for the opera, dressing for the opera, and more Musical and theatrical conventions used in opera In-depth synopses of the world’s most beloved operas On the bonus CD you’ll find: More than 60 minutes of music compiled especially for the book A multimedia piece for PC or MAC Wonder what it is about opera that can make a grown person cry like a baby? Find out in Opera For Dummies.
Author : Frederick Busch
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211758
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Absent Friends written by Frederick Busch and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years now, Frederick Busch has been a relentless chronicler of the human heart. Except for an occasional foray abroad, he has tended to set his fiction in a physical territory--the Northeast, upstate New York especially--which he has given literary shape. With the capaciousness of a Dickens and the control of a Hemingway, Busch's novels have come in steady counterpoint, raising and answering by turns insistent questions that worry even the plainest of domestic lives. In this his fifth book of stories, the Absent Friends of the title are the lost characters the author has so compassionately detailed, who long to recover their absent selves. But they are also, as Richard Bausch comments in The Philadelphia Inquirer, "friends we have failed, or who have failed us; it is the emotional cost of that estrangement that interests Frederick Busch."
Author : J. Q. Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Multicultural Prism written by J. Q. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Grove Book of Operas written by Stanley Sadie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-06 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Grove Book of Operas is the ideal difference for the opera lover. First published in 1996 to great critical and popular success, it provides succinct yet insightful synopses of more than 250 operas. This second edition brings the book up to date with several recently composed operas, including John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer, Poul Ruders's A Handmaid's Tale, and Mark Adamo's Little Women." "The second edition features a new, more readable design, and is illustrated in both colour and black and white. New images cover the history of opera from reproductions of the earliest libretti, to portraits of singers from the earliest days of photography, to productions staged in 2005. And in a new introductory essay, scholar and dramaturg David Levin surveys contemporary trends in opera performance, identifying their ancestors in early and mid-20th century performance and examining the current intellectual and cultural context in which they flourish." "In addition to a full synopsis of every plot, there is a cast list and information about the first production, as well as a discussion of the opera's history and its literary and social background. The index of first lines of arias will help you find your favourite, and the index of role names will come to your rescue when programme notes or reviews tell you that 'he sang Colline at the Met in 1992'."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Andrew Bolton
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394123
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Alexander McQueen written by Andrew Bolton and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 4-July 31, 2011.
Author : Guiseppe Verdi
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781603760751
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Operas written by Guiseppe Verdi and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classics.
