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Opera
An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written. From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the..
20.98£
Brand: G. Schirmer Inc.
(Vocal Collection). This collection of carefully prepared recorded piano accompaniments (John Keene, pianist) will become a valuable tool for any student of singing. The book has long been a standard in teaching literature and is very likely to be t..
22.33£
A real life family aria that takes us through the world of opera--all its high notes, tragedies and artistry intact.When young Louis Quilico meets upcoming concert pianist Lina Pizzolongo, a personal and musical collaboration begins that sees Louis ..
29.97£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structur..
34.86£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
It was hearing an early performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that turned the young emigré writer and musician Hans Keller from psychology to music. Thereafter he became the composer's most fervent advocate, devoting to him a whole issue of..
26.23£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence. Renowned opera scholar Gabriela Cruz argu..
77.38£
Brand: Hachette Book Group USA
In this translation of the groundbreaking Le Chant Intime, internationally renowned baritone François Le Roux, in conversation with journalist Romain Raynaldy, presents a master class on French art song, with a thorough analysis of 60 selected songs..
30.19£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her lo..
14.88£
Brand: Princeton University Press
In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity an..
22.23£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Have you ever heard the beauty and power of an opera voice or felt moved by a story told in a language you don't even know? Highlighting 165 works and their composers, this guide is a perfect introduction to opera - one of the world's most dramatic ..
23.63£
Brand: Lexington Books
Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. His argument is that operatic works have the potential to be art, but so do operatic productions, independently of their value as..
104.52£
Many musical and theatrical traditions walk the very narrow path between the sublime and the ridiculous, but perhaps none more so than opera, which, while maintaining an elegant reputation, makes a show out of princes making romantic speeches to sof..
24.83£
Brand: GoodKnight Books
Experience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore th..
86.56£
Brand: Zone Books
In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of opera's founding myth - the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus's attempt to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Traditionally, opera kills its protago..
51.79£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Friedrich Nietzsche more than once claimed that Wagner's only true home was in Paris. This book is the first major study to trace Wagner's relationship with Paris from his first sojourn there (1839-1842) to the Paris Tannhäuser (1861). How did Wagne..
72.48£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
2013 saw the seventieth birthday of David Matthews, the British composer who has established an international reputation as a leading symphonist of our time. This collection, the first on his work, marks the occasion with lively contributions from a..
23.36£
This detailed analysis of every record made by Maria Callas examines the development of her art from her first recordings in 1949 to the last in 1977. ISBN: 9780931340901Publisher: AmadeusImprint: Amadeus PressPublished date: 01 Apr 2003DEWEY: 782.1..
22.73£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the public consciousness of many parts of the world. Even after her mysterious death in 1977, her singing an..
57.77£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance her singing rises to new h..
11.24£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nin..
27.24£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic conflict, the search for glory, spectacular self-sacrifice..
14.77£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult l..
31.36£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The book celebrates Arnold Whittall's 80th birthday with a collection of his key writings on Richard Wagner. The first ten chapters deal with the three Romantic operas, the four parts of The Ring and the three remaining music dramas. Their aim is to..
62.34£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the King..
15.04£
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