Opera

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.

Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder.

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

A riveting story of fatal attraction between a beguiling, strong-willed gypsy and a nave but passionate soldier who falls under her spell, Georges Bizet's Carmen pulses with seduction, obsession, and deadly betrayal.

Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times.

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

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

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

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

First published in 1915, The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather.

"e;The Great Operas of Vincenzo Bellini"e; is a detailed account of the life and work of Vincenzo Bellini by Gustav Kobbe, with a particular focus on his operatic compositions.

People may say that I couldn't sing.

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "e;La Divina Assoluta,"e; remains unsurpassed.

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "e;La Divina Assoluta,"e; remains unsurpassed.

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

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

Wagner's Ring addresses fundamental concerns that have faced humanity down the centuries, such as power and violence, love and death, freedom and fate.

Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century.

For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater.

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change.

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Friedrich Nietzsche regarded himself as the most musical philosopher--he played the piano, wrote his own compositions and espoused a philosophy encouraging all to dance for joy.

The history of women in the opera is a grand story.

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.

Covering famous operas from 14 Italian, French and German composers, this handbook is designed to help listeners understand and appreciate the special skills required to sing famous operatic songs.

The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it.

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.

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.

';The Little Sweep' is a three-scene opera aimed at children written by the English composer Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Eric Crozier.

Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum.

Something sinister has crawled into the heart of the man that should be a father, a guide, a leader and the first nurturer to future relationships, but yet turns a childs worst nightmare into reality.

This classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public.

This classic test first published in 1966 has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public.

Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zaza, Maia, Zingari, La boheme, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum.

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.

Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world.

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It has been said that zarzuela means to Spain what operetta means to Vienna, Offenbach to Paris, Gilbert and Sullivan to London, and the musical to Broadway.

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

Now in paper!

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 worlds leading musical organizations.

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

It started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto.

Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster.

An insider's view of the opera world from one of its greatest figures.

The Amato Opera Company has delighted music lovers throughout the years, establishing an extraordinary artistic tradition in New York City.

La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly - Puccini's operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger has always called forth superlatives from those who have fallen under its spell.