Author: Henry Sutherland Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
History of the Opera From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time. With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe Volume 1
History of the opera
Author: Henry Sutherland Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
History of the Opera From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time. With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe Volume 1
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
History of the Opera From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time. With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe Volume 1
The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera
Author: Giorgio Bagnoli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671870424
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671870424
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
A Night at the Opera
Author: Sir Denis Forman
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375751769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375751769
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
The Victrola Book of the Opera
Author: Samuel Holland-Rous
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434479196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In depth descriptions of various operas with scene by scene, aria by aria accounts.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434479196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In depth descriptions of various operas with scene by scene, aria by aria accounts.
Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009409808
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making provided by the study of domestic musical arrangements of opera.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009409808
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making provided by the study of domestic musical arrangements of opera.
Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartok
Author: Elliott Antokoletz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195103831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The authors explore the means by which two early 20th-century operas - Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' (1902) and Bartók's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle' (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195103831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The authors explore the means by which two early 20th-century operas - Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande' (1902) and Bartók's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle' (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language.
Reminiscences of the Opera
Author: Benjamin Lumley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A memoir of the director of Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A memoir of the director of Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
The Operas of Alban Berg
Author: George Perle
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066168
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520066168
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Phantom of the Opera
Author: Gaston Leroux
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Christine Daaé, the whispers of an Opera ghost seem to become reality as the young singer vanishes. As the Phantom strikes again and again, targeting foes from a jealous diva to a romantic rival, Leroux spins a thriller of obsession and violence with, at its center, a tormented murderer who awakens our deepest fears and sympathies. The inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical, Leroux’s novel is still more riveting than anything Broadway could produce.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307432483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Christine Daaé, the whispers of an Opera ghost seem to become reality as the young singer vanishes. As the Phantom strikes again and again, targeting foes from a jealous diva to a romantic rival, Leroux spins a thriller of obsession and violence with, at its center, a tormented murderer who awakens our deepest fears and sympathies. The inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical, Leroux’s novel is still more riveting than anything Broadway could produce.
Catalog of the Opera Collections in the Music Libraries--University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
Author: University of California, Berkeley
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description