100 Great Operas and Their Stories
Author : Henry W. Simon
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Henry W. Simon
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1957
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Author : Ernest Newman
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 19,15 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 : Jane Rosenberg
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1996-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780500278734
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
Author : Helen Dike
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2013-10
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ISBN : 9781494056629
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781901223415
The author's rewriting of opera stories from seven different composers combined with illustrations and a select discography, introduces to children some of the great operatic themes of the last 200 years.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0977145514
A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.
Author : Catherine Clement
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780816635269
This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.
Author : Fred Plotkin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1401306004
Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you. Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover--a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces the reader (whatever his or her level of musical knowledge) to all the elements that make up opera, including: A brief, entertaining history of opera; An explanation of key operatic concepts, from vocal types to musical conventions; Hints on the best way to approach the first opera you attend and how to best understand what is happening both offstage and on; Lists of recommended books and recordings, and the most complete traveler's guide to opera houses around the world. The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of eleven key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca through works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedentedly detailed and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.
Author : Henri Murger
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
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Bohemians of the Latin Quarter is a work by Henri Murger, published in 1851. Although it is commonly called a novel, it does not follow the standard novel form. Rather, it is a collection of loosely related stories, all set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, playfully romanticizing bohemian life. Most of the stories were originally published individually in a local literary magazine, Le Corsaire. Many of them were semi-autobiographical, featuring characters based on actual individuals who would have been familiar to some of the magazine's readers.
Author : Peter Lovrick
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0774844450
Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.