Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935.
Blunt, irreverent, and at times delightfully subversive, Opera Wars spotlights operas colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic futurea colorful, witty look behind the velvet curtain (Rene Fleming).
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
A brand-new look at the life and music of renowned composer Erich Wolfgang KorngoldErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was the last compositional prodigy to emerge from the Austro-German tradition of Mozart and Mendelssohn.
The art of the early republic abounds in representations of deception: the villains of Gothic novels deceive their victims with visual and acoustic tricks; the ordinary citizens of picaresque novels are hoodwinked by quacks and illiterate but shrewd adventurers; and innocent sentimental heroines fall for their seducers' eloquently voiced half-truths and lies.
Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera.
In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel updates her work on operas written specifically to an English text, including not only works originally in English but also those set to new English librettos.
Known worldwide as a composer of symphonies and chamber music, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak declared toward the end of his life that his main love was writing operas.
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.
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.
La Diva y el Castrado es una novela narrativa con trasfondo historico, en la que se relatan las vivencias de una soprano de opera, a traves de lo escrito por un castrado que se hace su amigo y la acompana en su recorrido por los grandes teatros de opera.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt von Richard Wagners Oper Der Fliegende Holländer – einem Meisterwerk, das nicht nur musikalisch, sondern auch als Zeitdokument von unschätzbarem Wert ist.
Michele Carafa (1787–1872) war ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist, dessen Werke zu seiner Zeit gefeiert wurden, heute jedoch weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind.
Tauchen Sie ein in das faszinierende Leben von Jacopo Peri, dem visionären Musiker und Komponisten, der als „Vater der Oper“ in die Geschichte einging.
Giuseppe Verdi war weit mehr als nur ein Komponist – er war ein musikalischer Visionär, dessen Werke die italienische Oper revolutionierten und tief mit den Freiheits- und Einheitsbestrebungen Italiens verwoben waren.
Adalbert Gyrowetz, in Böhmen geboren und später in Wien beheimatet, war ein herausragender Komponist, der zu Lebzeiten großen Erfolg feierte, heute jedoch oft im Schatten von Größen wie Haydn, Mozart und Beethoven steht.
Sigismund von Neukomm war weit mehr als nur ein Schüler von Joseph Haydn – er war ein musikalischer Weltbürger, dessen Kompositionen von Europa bis Südamerika reichten und Kulturen miteinander verbanden.