Opera

Heather Wiebe''s book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians.

This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D'Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982.

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi ('pear garden theatre'), heir and current expression of one of China's oldest unbroken xiqu ('Chinese opera') traditions.

In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas.

A fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera, first published in 2003.

Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakespeare in the history of English-language theater.

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history.

Emilio Sala uses rare documents and images to re-examine Verdi''s La traviata in the cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Paris.

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music.

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

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

Artists today are at a crossroads.

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

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

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

In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann.

Georges Bizet – ein Name, der untrennbar mit der legendären Oper Carmen verbunden ist.

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.

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance, theatre, and opera in selected European countries during the decades before and after 1800.

Few people these days would question Mozart's rating as the most popular of all classical composers.

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain''s foremost living composers.

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

Embodying Voice: Singing Verdi, Singing Wagner articulates the process of developing an operatic voice, explaining how and why the training of such a voice is as complex and sophisticated as it is mysterious.

Indispensable reading for historians and musicologists as well as those interested in Wagner's philosophy and the aesthetics of music.

Summarizing the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Strauss, this volume focuses on genres, social context, and perennially controversial topics.

The Rival Sirens examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera.

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

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage.

Foster explores how Wagner''s political stance and his theories on Greek poetry and politics were combined to create the Ring.

Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country.

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems.

Born in Quebec, Emma Lajeunesse studied in Europe and in 1869 at the age of 23 launched her opera career in Italy.

Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire.

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

A destination for thousands of opera lovers every year and the anchor of Santa Fe's thriving arts scene, the Santa Fe Opera owes its existence to the vision and hard work of one man: John O'Hea Crosby (1926-2002), who created the company when he was only thirty years old and guided its fortunes for the next forty-five years.

"e;Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera.

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "e;long nineteenth century,"e; giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera between Glinka and Rimsky-Korsakov; and the operas of Richard Strauss and JanA!

Amanda Johnston provides a comprehensive resource offering a modern approach to lyric diction and a thorough analysis of German and English.

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

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

Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere.

Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work.

Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakespeare in the history of English-language theater.

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day.

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.

Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century.