'The bachelors:' an original comic opera
Author : Charles Henry M. Wharton
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Charles Henry M. Wharton
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Victor Herbert
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Operas
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Author : E. KNIGHT (Comedian.)
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1832
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Author : Gerald Martin Bordman
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Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199729700
Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed according to names of shows, songs, and people involved, for easy searching and browsing. Chapters range from the "Prologue," which traces the origins of American musical theater to 1866, through several "intermissions" (for instance, "Broadway's Response to the Swing Era, 1937-1942") and up to "Act Seven," the theatre of the twenty-first century. This last chapter covers the dramatic changes in musical theatre since the last edition published-whereas Fosse, a choreography-heavy revue, won the 1999 Tony for Best Musical, the 2008 award went to In the Heights, which combines hip-hop, rap, meringue and salsa unlike any musical before it. Other groundbreaking and/or box-office-breaking shows covered for the first time include Avenue Q, The Producers, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot, Wicked, Hairspray, Urinetown the Musical, and Spring Awakening. Discussion of these shows incorporates plot synopses, names of principal players, descriptions of scenery and costumes, and critical reactions. In addition, short biographies interspersed throughout the text colorfully depict the creative minds that shaped the most influential musicals. Collectively, these elements create the most comprehensive, authoritative history of musical theatre in this country and make this an essential resource for students, scholars, performers, dramaturges, and musical enthusiasts.
Author : Gerald Bordman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 019513074X
Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its original publication in 1978. In this third edition, he offers authoritative summaries on the general artistic trends and developments for each season on musical comedy, operetta, revues, and the one-man and one-woman shows from the first musical to the 1999/2000 season. With detailed show, song, and people indexes, Bordman provides a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production.
Author : William DIMOND
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Page : 1898 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1918
Category : American drama
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Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 27,20 MB
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307830829
This book contains the definitive treatment of the stories, texts, and music of Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, The Barber of Bagdad, Thaïs, Eugen Onegin, Prince Igor, The Golden Cockerel, Elektra, Orfeo ed Euridice, Lakmé, Les Huguenots, Così fan tutte, The Seraglio, Les Troyens, Don Pasquale, La Juive, Manon, Falstaff, Louise, Pelléas and Mélisande, The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, Romeo and Juliet, Der Rosenkavalier, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Wozzeck, L’Heure Espagnole, and Boris Godounov. The foremost authority on opera presented in the comprehensive volume all that the opera-goer, radio listener, music-lover, and confirmed operamane will wish to know about them. It is unique as both guide and armchair companion. Ernest Newman’s gigantic grasp of his subject is clear at every turn, as are his sheer writing ability and wit. He larded his treatment of the operas with biographical and historical materials acquired in a long lifetime of study and writing. This is the first volume of the trilogy of books (the other two being The Wagner Operas and Seventeen Famous Operas) with which Ernest Newman wished to replace his much earlier book, Stories of the Great Operas.
Author : John Herbert Slater
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
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Page : 724 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
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