Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800
Author: Library of Congress. Music DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Giovanna Sestini
Author: Audrey T CarpenterPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1788038800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The first-ever biography of this almost forgotten eighteenth century star. How a girl from Italy became London’s “most enchanting comic actress.” Giovanna Sestini’s important contribution to opera has been revived in this carefully researched biography. This book describes her Italian and Portuguese background, while providing considerable insight into the contemporary opera scene and social history of 18th century London. In her private family life she was Joanna Stocqueler, mother of eight children, while as Giovanna Sestini she was a renowned and attractive opera singer. Her talents were publicised until her retirement in 1792, when both her voice and the London theatres were in decline. The book offers a full description of her life, including her early performances in Italy and Portugal, her marriage to Portuguese aristocrat José Christiano Stocqueler, and the fate of her children. After her move to London she was acclaimed both in Italian comic opera at the King’s Theatre and in English opera at Covent Garden. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in the arts, opera and eighteenth-century history. It includes 18 illustrations and a full bibliography and index.
Il Matrimonio per Concorso, dramma giocoso per musica [in three acts and in verse], etc
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Author: Complete Encyclopædia of Music
Author: John Weeks MoorePublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Rossini
Author: Emanuele SeniciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001953
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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Index to the catalogue of books in the upper hall
Author: Boston Mass, publ. librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Upper Hall of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Opera
Author: Helen M. GreenwaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199714843
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1217
Book Description
What IS opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators. The synergy of power, performance, and identity recurs thematically throughout the volume's major topics: Words, Music, and Meaning; Performance and Production; Opera and Society; and Transmission and Reception. Individual essays engage with repertoire from Monteverdi, Mozart, and Meyerbeer to Strauss, Henze, and Adams in studies of composition, national identity, transmission, reception, sources, media, iconography, humanism, the art of collecting, theory, analysis, commerce, singers, directors, criticism, editions, politics, staging, race, and gender. The title of the penultimate section, Opera on the Edge, suggests the uncertainty of opera's future: is opera headed toward catastrophe or have social and musical developments of the last hundred years stimulated something new and exciting, and, well, operatic? In an epilogue to the volume, a contemporary opera composer speaks candidly about opera composition today. The Oxford Handbook of Opera is an essential companion to scholars, educators, advanced students, performers, and knowledgeable listeners: those who simply love opera.
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