Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 071454499X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton
Rigoletto
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 071454499X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 071454499X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton
Bravi
Author: Victor Skrebneski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558597716
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Lyric Opera of Chicago--one of the brightest stars of the opera world--is now celebrated in this book of grand-opera-sized photos by a master photographer, and illuminating essays. It chronicles the Lyric's stunning productions and performers from 1980 to the present. 40 Duotones.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781558597716
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Lyric Opera of Chicago--one of the brightest stars of the opera world--is now celebrated in this book of grand-opera-sized photos by a master photographer, and illuminating essays. It chronicles the Lyric's stunning productions and performers from 1980 to the present. 40 Duotones.
Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1954-1963
Author: Lyric Opera of Chicago
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Author: Claudia Cassidy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960353804
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960353804
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1954-1963
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Lyric Opera
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
Author:
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN: 9781480355521
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(BH Stage Works). Text in English
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
ISBN: 9781480355521
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(BH Stage Works). Text in English
Mozart's The Magic Flute
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 0977145506
Category : Music
Languages : de
Pages : 132
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English translation side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 0977145506
Category : Music
Languages : de
Pages : 132
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English translation side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Author: Lyric Opera of Chicago
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dead Man Walking
Author: Helen Prejean
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307787699
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307787699
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty • "Stunning moral clarity.” —The Washington Post Book World • Basis for the award-winning major motion picture starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn "Sister Prejean is an excellent writer, direct and honest and unsentimental. . . . She almost palpably extends a hand to her readers.” —The New York Times Book Review In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified as he had once been terrifying. She also came to know the families of the victims and the men whose job it was to execute—men who often harbored doubts about the rightness of what they were doing. Out of that dreadful intimacy comes a profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment. Here Sister Helen confronts both the plight of the condemned and the rage of the bereaved, the fears of a society shattered by violence and the Christian imperative of love. On its original publication in 1993, Dead Man Walking emerged as an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty. Now, some two decades later, this story—which has inspired a film, a stage play, an opera and a musical album—is more gut-wrenching than ever, stirring deep and life-changing reflection in all who encounter it.
Lyric Opera of Chicago, Season 1958
Author: Lyric Opera of Chicago
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater programs
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Program of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1958 performance season.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater programs
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Program of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1958 performance season.