Author: Frederick Herman MartensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Thousand and One Nights of Opera
Author: Frederick Herman MartensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Thousand and One Nights of Opera
Author: Frederick Herman MartensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
A Thousand and One Nights of Opera
Author: Frederick H. MartensThe Floating Opera
Author: John BarthPublisher: American Literature
ISBN: 9781564789181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written when John Barth was 24 years old, The Floating Opera is his first novel, published in 1957. It is a first-person reminiscence of the day Todd Andrews decided to commit suicide. Having picked up some sense of the French Existentialist writers from the postwar Zeitgeist, this novel questions life's value through the eyes of a 37-year-old man.
One Thousand One
Author: Jason GrotePublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 0573663882
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
First produced in January 2007 at The Denver Center Theater, Denver, Colorado.
Intermezzo
Author: Johann StraussThe Thousand and One Nights
Author: Ibrahim AkelPublisher: Studies on Performing Arts & L
ISBN: 9789004428959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Thousand and One Nightsdoes not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nightsgradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nightshas continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nightshas continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights' texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali.
The Arabian Nights
Author: Mary ZimmermanPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810120941
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
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Opera
Author: Guy A. MarcoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113557801X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
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.
The Politics of Opera
Author: Mitchell CohenPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140088473X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and an array of music by such greats as Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics—through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs—has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. Cohen begins with opera's emergence under Medici absolutism in Florence during the late Renaissance—where debates by humanists, including Galileo's father, led to the first operas in the late sixteenth century. Taking readers to Mantua and Venice, where composer Claudio Monteverdi flourished, Cohen examines how early operatic works like Orfeo used mythology to reflect on governance and policy issues of the day, such as state jurisdictions and immigration. Cohen explores France in the ages of Louis XIV and the Enlightenment and Vienna before and during the French Revolution, where the deceptive lightness of Mozart's masterpieces touched on the havoc of misrule and hidden abuses of power. Cohen also looks at smaller works, including a one-act opera written and composed by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Essential characters, ancient and modern, make appearances throughout: Nero, Seneca, Machiavelli, Mazarin, Fenelon, Metastasio, Beaumarchais, Da Ponte, and many more. An engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics, The Politics of Opera offers a compelling investigation into the intersections of music and the state.