Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias/Duets Set
Author : Richard Boldrey
Publisher :
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781877761669
Author : Richard Boldrey
Publisher :
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781877761669
Author : Richard Boldrey
Publisher : Pst..., Incorporated
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN :
Start from any point -- the voice category, role, duet, opera, composer -- and you can locate specific duets for any voice type. - Back cover.
Author : Richard Boldrey
Publisher : Pst Records
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN :
This text features works from 350 composers in 16 different languages and 30 voice categories - all sorted and cross-referenced. This one-of-a- kind reference allows you to search by: Roles, voice categories, aria titles, singers, composers, operas
Author : Rupert Christiansen
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571307833
This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip Glass, Mark Anthony Turnage, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin. Whether you are a first-timer at La Boheme or a seasoned Wagnerian, every opera-goer can benefit from a little background information, and this book aims to provide just that. Accessible and easy-to-use, it contains entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.
Author : Matthew Boyden
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781858287492
Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 113557801X
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Author : Martial Singher
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780271023540
A premier singer and master teacher here tells other singers how to get the most from 151 famous arias selected for their popularity or their greatness from 66 operas, ranging in time and style from Christopher Gluck to Carlisle Floyd, from Mozart to Menotti. "The most memorable thrills in an opera singer's life," according to the author's Introduction, "may easily derive from the great arias in his or her repertoire." This book continues the work Martial Singher has done, in performances, in concerts, and in master classes and lessons, by drawing attention "not only to precise features of text, notes, and markings but also to psychological motivations and emotional impulses, to laughter and tears, to technical skills, to strokes of genius, and even here and there to variations from the original works that have proved to be fortunate." For each aria, the author gives the dramatic and musical context, advice about interpretation, and the lyric--with the original language (if it is not English) and an idiomatic American English translation, in parallel columns. The major operatic traditions--French, German, Italian, Russian, and American--are represented, as are the major voice types--soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass-baritone, and bass. The dramatic context is not a mere summary of the plot but is a penetrating and often witty personality sketch of an operatic character in the midst of a situation. The musical context is presented with the dramatic situation in a cleverly integrated way. Suggestions about interpretation, often illustrated with musical notation and phonetic symbols, are interspersed among the author's explication of the music and the action. An overview of Martial Singher's approach--based on fifty years of experience on stage in a hundred roles and in class at four leading conservatories--is presented in his Introduction. As the reader approaches each opera discussed in this book, he or she experiences the feeling of participation in a rehearsal on stage under an urbane though demanding coach and director. The Interpretive Guide will be of value to professional singers as a source of reference or renewed inspiration and a memory refresher, to coaches for checking and broadening personal impressions, to young singers and students for learning, to teachers who have enjoyed less than a half century of experience, and to opera broadcast listeners and telecast viewers who want to understand what goes into the sounds and sights that delight them.
Author : Barry Millington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195345517
One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music, Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed. Drawing upon the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the world, Barry Millington offers a concise, portable survey and guide, which will make a welcome addition to the shelf of anyone who loves opera. Millington has completely updated the original pieces and contributed four new chapters on Wagner, including a summary of Wagner productions from 1876 to the present day, a suggested listening and viewing gyide, complete chronology of Wagner's operas, and a glossary of terms that will delight any opera-goer. In addition, there are detailed entries on each of Wagner's operas, a main biographical section, and a group of separate articles on such topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as a newly revised updated article on Bayreuth. Complete with a new preface, updated bibliography, glossary, and discography--including first release dates of each recording--The New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas furnishes both seasoned Wagner-lovers and neophytes with all they require for an in-depth appreciation of this unique historical figure.
Author : Paul Gruber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393034448
A guide to recordings of operas.
Author : Chris Woodstra
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 1620 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879308650
Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.