Author: Paul Gruber
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393034448
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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A guide to recordings of operas.

Author: Paul Gruber
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393045369
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Describes the performances and production values of more than three hundred videos of more than one hundred fifty operas, and recommends the best overall video recording for each opera

Author: Mary Ellis Peltz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Author: David Hamilton
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780671617325
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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An elegant gift and comprehensive reference for opera lovers, The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia draws on the talents and resources of the world's greatest opera house. Describes singers, composers, operas and more. 250 black-and-white photographs.

Author: Dorle Soria
Publisher: New York : The Metropolitan Opera Guild
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Heidi Waleson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Author: Mary Ellis Peltz
Publisher: New York : The Modern library
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Author: Johanna Fiedler
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400032318
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.

Author: Mrs. Mary Ellis (Opdycke) Peltz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Metropolitan opera
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Fred Plotkin
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Written by an opera insider and featuring an introduction by Placido Domingo, here is a thorough, friendly, and truly complete guide to learning how to love and appreciate the opera. After a brief history of opera, the book includes a guide to operatic terms, a minute-by-minute listener's guide to 11 central works, a list of recommended books and recordings and much more.