Author : Demar Irvine
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670240
(Amadeus). This superbly detailed biography examines the life of Jules Massenet (1842-1912), who was at the heart of Parisian musical life during a period of extraordinary artistic vitality.
Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher : New York ; London : John Lane
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Composers
ISBN :
Author : Jules Massenet
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This guide opens with a general survey of Massenet's career and continues with two essays about the opera 'Manon' in particular. Professor Hugh Macdonald explores the interplay of speech and song in this opera and Massenet's genius for comedy. Professor Vivienne Mylne traces the sources of Prévost's novel, setting it in the context of other racy, supposedly improving, 18th century novels of the seduction and ruin of women.
Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107004268
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199719921
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : William Ashbrook
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801493096
The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 1527568768
In his lifetime, the opera composer Fromental Halévy was considered the leader of the French school; his admirers included Wagner, Berlioz, and later Mahler. Today, he is chiefly remembered for his grand tragic opera La Juive (1835). Halévy, a native of Paris, was active when the French capital was at the centre of the operatic world. His 30 operas worked within established genres of grand opéra and opéra-comique, and many of them attained considerable popularity across Europe and the wider world (such as La Reine de Chypre 1841, Charles VI 1843, Les Mousquetaires de la reine 1846, and Le Val d’Andorre 1848). Although acclaimed in their day, most have not been staged for decades. This study throws light on this shadowy figure, looking at his life, contemporary opinion about him, and, most importantly, his operas. Each one is examined in terms of its origin, libretto, musical features, and place in the vibrant critical journalism of mid-19th century France. The book provides musical examples and something of the rich iconography that accompanied the creation of his works.
Author : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316395707
Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.
