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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The Harmonicon
Author: Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors
Author: Dan H. MarekPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810886685
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character and supporting roles in the operas of their time. Rubini stood apart because he not only matched the castrati in coloratura and pathos, but he also had an extraordinarily high voice. With Rubini’s rise, and in his wake, several tenors came to sing roles written specifically for them by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and many other lesser-known bel canto composers. Signaling the end of the dominance of castrati on stage, this period would last some 40 years until the advent of Grand Opera, Wagner, and Verdi and the appearance of the first so-called High C from the chest by Gilbert-Louis Duprez in 1837. Since then, the accepted tenor sound has followed the tradition epitomized by Enrico Caruso and, in our own era, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Many composers, conductor, and performers would come to regard bel canto dramatic operas as decorative and vapid until Maria Callas and Tulio Serafin demonstrated the heights this genre of opera could reach. However, opera directors and opera performers of late who have expressed an interest in reviving selected masterpieces from the bel canto tradition have found themselves confronted with the problem of locating tenors versed in the vocal techniques necessary to carry the high tessituras. In Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors: History and Technique, Dan H. Marek explores the extraordinary life of Rubini in order to frame this special period in the history of opera and connect the technique of the castrati who were among Rubini’s instructors. Drawing on the work of Berton Coffin, Marek offers long-sought answers to the challenges presented by high tessitura of bel canto operas for tenors. To further assist working singers, Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors includes over 60 pages of exercises written by Rubini himself before 1840, which Marek, for the first time ever has adapted to acoustical phonetics. Professional singers, teachers and their students, vocal coaches, and opera conductors will find this work indispensable as the only English-language work on high tessitura for tenor and soprano singing.
Queen of Song
Author: Ellen Creathorne ClaytonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375004893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863. Being memoirs of some of the most celebrated female vocalists. To which is added a chronological list of all the operas. In two volumes.
Donizetti and His Operas
Author: William AshbrookPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521276634
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
The series will include both new and recent titles drawn from the whole range of the Press's very substantial publishing programs.
Donizetti Society Journal
Author: Donizetti SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Dictionary-catalogue of Operas and Operettas which Have Been Performed on the Public Stage
Author: John TowersPublisher:
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Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
The Monthly Musical Record
Author: Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Author: James Duff BrownPublisher: Paisley and London : A. Gardner
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Opera Librettists and Their Works
Author: Performing Operas for Mozart
Author: Ian WoodfieldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107014298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart's works in the late eighteenth-century.