Opera category: 14844 books
Jenufa
Translations and Pronunciation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Jenůfa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today’s second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorák’s Rusalka), Jenůfa holds a prominent place in international opera repertoire and continues to draw the attention...
by Bi Feiyu
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
This “gem of a novel . . . gives us a glimpse not only into the Chinese opera world but deep into a woman’s heart” (Lisa See, author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane).
Twenty years ago, in a fit of diva jealousy, Xiao Yanqiu, star of The Moon Opera, violently assaulted her understudy....
John Adams's Nixon in China
Musical Analysis, Historical and Political Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature. Timothy A. Johnson illuminates the opera and enhances listeners' and scholars' appreciation for this landmark work. This music-analytical guide presents a detailed, in-depth analysis...
The Metropolitan Opera on Record
A Discography of the Commercial Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2010
The Metropolitan Opera on Record: A Discography of the Commercial Recordings is a comprehensive listing of all the commercial sound recordings involving the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's leading musical organizations. Over 900 recording sessions are listed chronologically,...
Robert Ward's The Crucible
Creating an American Musical Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
In Robert Ward's The Crucible*: Creating an American Musical Nationalism*, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible. Focusing on the musical-linguistic relationships within the opera, Kolt demonstrates...
by Andrew R. Walkling
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Masque and Opera in England, 1656–1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which...
by Jelena Novak
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of...
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital
The Case of Chinese Opera
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ’beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and...
Opera at the Bandstand
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W. Martin surveys the role of concert bands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in making contemporary opera popular. He also chronicles how in part they lost their audience in the second half of the twentieth century by abandoning operatic...
by Karyl Charna Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great art form. They represent its beauty and richness....
Starcrossed
A Biography of Madame Butterfly
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904. It has also inspired a global-level debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera, Cho-Cho-san, was based on a real-life model.
Starcrossed looks at this controversy...
by Andrew R. Walkling
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century....
Prepare for Saints
Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway...
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Although the story of Figaro’s success in preventing the Count of Almaviva’s seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. Mozart’s opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, uses a libretto by Lorenzo...