Opera category: 14844 books
by Burton D. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Rossini’s La Cenerentola
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Rossini’s La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire – the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. Its first performance at Rome’s Teatro Valle in January 1817 – when the composer was not yet 25 – was the customary...
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Sir Walter Scott’s story of a Scottish girl forced by her family into an arranged marriage still resonates today, two centuries after it was published. Donizetti’s opera, which premièred in Naples in 1835, is famous particularly for the Mad Scene when Lucia, after leaving for her nuptials, reappears...
by William Berger
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Major composers including Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, and Strauss * Legendary singers from the great divas to the Three Tenors * What to look for and listen to at the opera * The history of opera and why it endures * Stylistic variations and basic theoretical underpinnings * Appreciating the art form * Biographies of the opera's greatest artists * A survey of classic operas
by Burton D. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Puccini’s La Bohème
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Puccini’s obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished ‘artistes’ in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daughters Mimi. The story of this seamstress, her hectic but fraught love affair with the poet Rodolfo...
by Arthur W. Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
This is the first part of a three part series introduction to opera and its composers.
An introduction to opera: "The Instant Opera Expert." Then a bio of the composers and their operas with extensive unusual material included.
And bios of George Bizet and his, "Carmen":
Gaetano...
by Burton D. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Mozart's Così Fan Tutte
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancées will be faithful. Their disguise as Albanians in an attempt to entrap their fiancées, and the complicity...
by Burton D. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
by Edward Said
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained...
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Butterfly is a delicate and impressionable geisha who thinks she has married Pinkerton, a US naval officer briefly stationed in Japan. Naive and loving as she is, she does not realise that for him the marriage is a sham, an extended 'date'. It’s not long before he goes away, leaving her pregnant....
Dundurn Performing Arts Library Bundle — Musicians
Opening Windows / True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera / Lois Marshall / John Arpin / Elmer Iseler / Jan Rubes / Music Makers / There's Music in These Walls / In Their Own Words / Emma Albani / Opera Viva / MacMillan on Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This special twelve-book bundle is a classical and choral music lover’s delight! Canada’s rich history and culture in the classical music arts is celebrated here, both in the form of in-depth biographies and autobiographies (Lois Marshall, Lotfi Mansouri, Elmer Iseler, Emma Albani and more), but...
by Joseph Kerman
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.