Rossini's the Italian Girl in Algiers (L'Italiana in Algeri)
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2001-08-15
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ISBN : 1102009385
The Singing Turk
Author : Larry Wolff
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0804799652
Book Description
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European–Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.
The Flying Dutchman
Author : Richard Wagner
Publisher : London : Novello, [ca. 1895]
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Operas
ISBN :
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L'Italiana in Algeri
Author : Gioacchino Rossini
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Operas
ISBN :
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Jazz Italian Style
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1107169771
Book Description
This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.
Opera at Movie Theaters: 2014-2015 Season
Author :
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
A guide to operas simulcast and/or screened by the Met Opera, Royal Opera House, et al, during the 2014-2015 season. Over 17 operas, each including Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis.
The Limelight Book of Opera
Author : Arthur Jacobs
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879100445
Book Description
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442642696
Book Description
"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.
Food and Drink
Author : Donald Sloan
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1908999055
Book Description
Food and Drink: the cultural context is the first text to provide a comprehensive and academically rigorous introduction to a range of key themes in the field of food, drink and culture. Essential reading for post graduates, academics, professionals.
Arias for Mezzo-Soprano
Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1480320013
Book Description
(Vocal Collection). Contents: Purcell: When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) Gluck: Che faro senza Euridice? (Orfeo ed Euridice) Mozart: Non so piu (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Voi, che sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Smanie implacabili (Cosi fan tutte) Rossini: Cruda sorte!...Gia so per pratica (L'Italiana in Algeri) * Una voce poco fa (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) * Non piu mesta (La Cenerentola) Donizetti: Il segreto per esser felici (Orsini's Drinking Song) (Lucrezia Borgia) * O mio Fernando (La Favorita) Meyerbeer: Nobles seigneurs, salut! (Les Huguenots) Verdi: Stride la vampa! (Il Trovatore) Gounod: Faites-lui mes aveux (Faust) * Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Romeo et Juliette) J. Strauss: Chacun a son got (Die Fledermaus) Bizet: Habanera (Carmen) * Seguidilla (Carmen) * En vain, pour eviter les reponses ameres (Carmen) Ponchielli: Voce di donne (La Gioconda) Saint-Saens: Printemps qui commence (Samson et Dalila) * Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse! (Samson et Dalila) * Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila) Mascagni: Voi lo sapete (Cavalleria Rusticana) Massenet: Va! laisse couler mes larmes (Werther) Cilea: Acerba volutta (Adriana Lecouvreur) Thomson: We cannot retrace our steps (The Mother of Us All) Menotti: Lullaby (The Consul) * Au, Michele, don't you know (The Saint of Bleecker Street) Moore: Augusta! How can you turn away? (The Ballad of Baby Doe) Barber: Must the Winter Come so Soon? (Vanessa).
