Author: Linda Sirkus
Publisher:
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Robert Tuggle
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Pghurst Pghurst
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020807152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Jean de Reszke was one of the greatest singers of the golden age of opera, and this book provides a fascinating window into his life and times. With its engaging prose and fascinating insights into the world of opera, The Operatic Age of Jean de Reszke is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of music and performance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Languages : en
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Author: Kandie K. Kearley
Publisher:
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Category : Bel canto
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Donald Jay Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231119585
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 1049

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"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.

Author: Vesey Music Shop (N.Y.)
Publisher:
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 880

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Author: Katherine K. Preston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190690119
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.

Author: Hermann Klein (Musical Critic.)
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Languages : en
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