Opera category: 14844 books
Opera and Sovereignty
Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that...
Sarah Caldwell
The First Woman of Opera
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera is the first biography of this significant musician, conductor, and director and documents Ms. Caldwell's genius as an indomitable force for opera in America. Caldwell mounted many U.S. premieres and brought rare editions of standard works to her audiences....
Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick
A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheers grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary...
The New York Times Essential Library: Opera
A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essays
Opera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best...
by Alan Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
"Opera Coaching "is the first practical guide for pianists, singers, and opera producers to this important--and often neglected--career. The opera coach is a teacher who helps singers not only meet the physical and vocal demands of a score, but--like the dramatic coach--shapes their entire...
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This book contains 250 anecdotes about opera, including these anecdotes: 1) When Pierre Monteux started working at the Metropolitan Opera, he decided to buy a shiny Ford touring-car. He paid $300 for the car, which he was proud of at first, although it looked modest when parked beside the luxurious...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing...
by Scott L. Balthazar
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas...
Opera Viva
The Canadian Opera Company The First Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
It started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country.
The Canadian...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and...
by M. Owen Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including straight-forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles. Each puzzle has a theme, such as baseball and opera, movies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the fin-de-siècle as its primary...
Losing the Plot in Opera
Myths and secrets of the world`s great operas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The world of opera is a mystery to some and a comedy to others, but it is deadly serious to the people who live and breathe it. Opera conductor Brian Castles-Onion has seen opera from all sides and has decided to step back and reflect on the great operas and on the people who bring them to the stage....
The Opera Guide
100 Popular Composers UPDATED 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
THE OPERA GUIDE – 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world’s greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today’s ground-breaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other...