Lettre de Alberto Mazzucato à Monsieur G.B. Benelli, 1er août 1855
Author : Alberto Mazzucato
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File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Alberto Mazzucato
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Page : pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 1855
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Author : Christina Fuhrmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107022215
London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.
Author : Jennifer Hall-Witt
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584656258
A vibrant look at changes in British elite culture through the lens of opera-going
Author : Theodore Fenner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780809319121
Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.
Author : Hilary Poriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199744653
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.
Author : Geoffrey Russell Searle
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198206989
How could Victorian capitalist values be harmonized with Christian beliefs and concepts of public morality and social duty? This book explores ideas about citizenship and public virtue and how public morality was reconciled with the market.
Author : Patricia Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199365202
The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Guadagni may have been the only singer of the time fully able to understand the demands and opportunities of this reform, as well to possess the intelligence and self-knowledge to realize that it suited his skills, limitations and temperament perfectly--making him the first castrato to embrace the concepts of modern singing.
Author : John Ebers
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Music
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A memoir of the manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London.
Author : Anselm Gerhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226288574
Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?
Author : Charles Lewis Gruneisen
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Opera
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