Opera

Opera in Transnational Contexts: Circulating Identities and Cultures sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios and others moving from one locale to another between the late eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Opera in Transnational Contexts: Circulating Identities and Cultures sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios and others moving from one locale to another between the late eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

Participatory Opera offers a critical analysis of spectator immersion and participation in contemporary opera, and explores resultant intersections with notions of individuality and community within these emerging contexts.

Participatory Opera offers a critical analysis of spectator immersion and participation in contemporary opera, and explores resultant intersections with notions of individuality and community within these emerging contexts.

For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to South Pacific, key works in the history of opera and musical theater present challenges related to gender, race, colonialism, class and more.

For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to South Pacific, key works in the history of opera and musical theater present challenges related to gender, race, colonialism, class and more.

Opera is food for the soul.

Opera is food for the soul.

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Er heit Enki, wie ein antiker Gott der Sumerer.

Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagners operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks.

This book brings together a significant part of Derek B.

This book brings together a significant part of Derek B.

Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagners operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks.

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Ulrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies.

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.

Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion.

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (1698-1782) was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

This book traces the origins of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!

Jean-Baptiste Lully is perhaps best known in the history of music as the founder of French opera.

This title was originally published in 1973.

This title was originally published in 1973.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

Maurice Ravel, der Meister der Klangfarben, hat die Musik des 20.

Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774) gehört zu den faszinierendsten Komponisten des 18.

Michele Carafa (1787–1872) war ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist, dessen Werke zu seiner Zeit gefeiert wurden, heute jedoch weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind.

Antonio Salieri – ein Name, der bis heute untrennbar mit Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ver-bunden ist, oft umgeben von Mythen und Missverständnissen.

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera.

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

In the first years of the new millennium Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much loved classical singer.