Opera

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture.

Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.

An insider's view of the opera world from one of its greatest figures.

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet.

Covering famous operas from 14 Italian, French and German composers, this handbook is designed to help listeners understand and appreciate the special skills required to sing famous operatic songs.

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike.

Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies.

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself.

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914).

From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho-the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity-played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century.

Der im märkischen Wachow als Sohn eines Fleischers geborene Jochen Kowalski wusste schon früh, dass er unbedingt Sänger werden wollte.

Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge.

Alexander Glasunow war eine der prägendsten Figuren der russischen Musikszene des ausgehenden 19.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

A fascinating and comprehensive resource for information on Verdi''s works, his life and career, and his cultural influence.

What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.

Das Wiener Kärntnertortheater war in der ersten Hälfte des 18.

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W.

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.

In recent years, interest in Rameau's operas has grown enormously.

This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart's late opera seria La clemenza di Tito.

First published in 1988.

Feasting and Fasting in Opera shows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage.

Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving ''opera'', Euridice.

New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners (composers, librettists, directors, producers, singers, dramaturgs, and administrators) who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today.

This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture.

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcrisacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayRobert L.

French Vocal Literature: Repertoire in Context introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the twelfth century to the present, focusing on works for solo voice or small vocal ensembles with piano or organ accompaniment, suitable for recitals, concerts, and church performances.

Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars.

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro?

Who's Who and What's What in Wagner aims to fill a notable gap in the extensive literature surrounding the works of Richard Wagner.

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision.

Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating.

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank?

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 economic reforms in the new millennium.

Richard Wagners Opern "Tristan" und "Meistersinger" sind nicht nur musikalisch sehr unterschiedlich, sie scheinen sich auch in ihrer geistigen Aussage zu widersprechen: hier Eros und Sehnsucht nach Tod und Auflösung, dort Ethos und der Glaube an die hohe Mission der Kunst für das Leben.