Opera

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices.

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

A study of the reception and contexts of Puccini''s music.

Richard Wagner's knowledge of and passion for Greek drama was so profound that for Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner was Aeschylus come alive again.

Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin''s Soviet Union.

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live.

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege.

A study of the Prague Italian opera company and its role in performing Mozart''s works in the late eighteenth-century.

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted.

Denes Striny's international singing career brought him to the major opera houses of the world in leading roles.

The Metropolitan Opera on Record: A Discography of the Commercial Recordings is a comprehensive listing of all the commercial sound recordings involving the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, one of the world's leading musical organizations.

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

It is sometimes hard to accept change - particularly when it is delivered as a hardship, disappointment, or rejection.

Giuseppe Verdi's career forms one of the loveliest arcs in musical history.

Lyric diction is a portal to powerful and meaningful vocal performance because diction enables singers to communicate the vision of both the poet and the composer.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention.

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries.

The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.

The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.

A new and groundbreaking approach to the history of grand opera, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores the illusion and illumination behind the form's rise to cultural eminence.

In its revised third edition, this volume argues that an appreciation of opera is based on understanding of several key aspects: history, language, theatrical production, the power of the conductor, vocal tradition and standard repertory.

Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world.

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers.

This path-breaking study of stage works in Italian musical performances reconsiders a crucial period of music history.

Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini.

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

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field.

The first major study of Saint-Saëns''s stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.

From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings.

Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre-World War II era.

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

Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege.

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

This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.

The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years.

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the U.

Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme.

What IS opera?

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

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.

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

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.

An international team of contributors, including film director Mike Leigh, presents fresh insights into the work of Gilbert and Sullivan.

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.

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry.

Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, this book investigates the relationship between opera and film.

This collection of reprinted essays takes the trends of the author's Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence (also in the 'Variorum' series) in a somewhat different direction.