Book Description
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
Author : Arthur Jacobs
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879100445
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
Author : Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Cavan Scott
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1787731901
From the original libretto of Andrew Lloyd Webber's world-famous, multi-award-winning musical that has been playing continuously around the world for over 33 years comes this fully authorized graphic novel adaptation. In 1881 the cast and crew of a new production, Hannibal, are terrorized by the Phantom of the Opera, a mysterious, hideously disfigured man who lives beneath the Paris Opera House. Hopelessly in love and obsessed with one of the chorus singers, the Phantom will stop at nothing to make her the star of the show, even if that means murder.
Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781590172650
The death of classical music, the distinguished critic and musicologist Joseph Kerman declares, is “a tired, vacuous concept that will not die.” In this wide-ranging collection of essays and reviews, Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, from the days of Guillaume Dufay, John Taverner, and William Byrd to contemporary operas by Philip Glass and John Adams. Here are enlightening investigations of the lives and works of the greatest composers: Bach and his Well-Tempered Clavier, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s piano concertos, Schubert’s songs, Wagner’s and Verdi’s operas. Kerman discusses The Magic Flute as well as productions of the Monteverdi operas in Brooklyn and the Ring in San Francisco and Bayreuth. He also includes remembrances of Maria Callas and Carlos Kleiber that make clear why they were such extraordinary musicians. Kerman argues that predictions—let alone assumptions—of the death of classical music are not a new development but part of a cultural transformation that has long been with us. Always alert to the significance of historical changes, from the invention of music notation to the advent of recording, he proposes that the place to look for renewal of the classical music tradition in America today is in opera—in a flood of new works, the rediscovery of long-forgotten ones, and innovative productions by companies large and small. Written for a general audience rather than for experts, Kerman’s essays invite readers to listen afresh and to engage with his insights into how music works. “His gift is so uncommon as to make one sad,” Alex Ross has said.
Author : Danusha Laméris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 24,65 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822987287
Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man’s land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, “bee-stung, drunk” in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake. Excerpt from “Bonfire Opera” In those days, there was a woman in our circle who was known, not only for her beauty, but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera. And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, and everyone had drunk a little wine, she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
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Author : Haags Gemeentemuseum. Muziekbibliotheek
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Page : 110 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : Graham Sadler
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2018-08
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ISBN : 9781435167131
This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E. T. A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.
Author : VARIOUS
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2010
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ISBN : 9788863882018