Opera

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 is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide.

Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer.

Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B.

Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society.

This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures, using them to illustrate aspects of music history in the 19th century.

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

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.

In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible.

Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights.

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century.

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

Explores a range of topics that contextualize Strauss''s life and works, such as collaborators, influences, philosophy, and the profession.

Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe.

This book brings together an international group of authors to discuss the outdoor environmental education (OEE) theory and practice that educators can use to support teaching and learning in higher education.

Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leo?

Gilbert and Sullivan s operas are some of the world s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay.

Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach der Relevanz ,mittelalterlicher‘ Sujets in der Oper der frühen Neuzeit und versucht mithin den Beitrag des Genres, das sich mit Blick auf seine humanistisch-renaissancezeitlichen Wurzeln gemeinhin eher als Sachwalter und Vermittler antiker (Stoff-)Traditionen darstellt, für eine Rezeption des ,Mittelalters‘ als einer historischen Periode an der Wende vom 17.

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France's first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division.

Essays by leading Mozart scholars explore the composer''s popular works, biography and reception, appealing to scholars and Mozart-lovers alike.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

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

During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer.

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

Richard Wagner's magnum opus meets the celebrated translator of Jules Verne novels in this colorful and original work.

Tells the forgotten story of post-Rossinian opera buffa, with attention to masterpieces by Donizetti and fascinating comic works by Luigi Ricci, the young Verdi, and other composers.

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.

Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.

The mention of the term "e;melodrama"e; is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous.

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics.

Otto Schenks Musik(ver)führer"Wer's hört, wird selig" ist eine sehr persönliche Rückschau auf ein Leben mit Musik: humoristische und bewegende Erinnerungsszenen aus Otto Schenks Regiearbeit an internationalen Opernhäusern, Begegnungen mit großen Sängern, Theatermenschen und Dirigenten von Leonard Bernstein bis Carlos Kleiber, von Sena Jurinac, Gundula Janowitz und Birgit Nilsson über Wolfgang Windgassen, Franco Corelli und Plácido Domingo bis Lucia Popp, Brigitte Fassbaender und Anna Netrebko.

This Element discusses many challenges to the Andean reception of Italian opera and its practices during the 1840s.

While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.

Offers fresh perspectives on the function of nationalist thought in the cosmopolitan opera world, with particular emphasis on the idea of "e;Russianness"e; in four nineteenth-century operas by Glinka, Serov, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

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.

First published in 1988.

In this unique and hybrid book, cultural and music historian Michael P.

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.

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.

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "e;last card,"e; explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany.

This 2004 Companion provides an accessible introduction to Verdi''s life and music.

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883.

First Published in 1990.