Opera

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.

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture.

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

These essays illuminate the changing nature of text-music relationships from the time of Petrarch to Guarini and, in music, from the madrigals of Giovanni da Cascia to those of Gesualdo da Venosa.

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

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics.

How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should sayor how?

Camille Saint-Sans is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera Samson et Dalila, but also because he was a keen observer of the musical culture in which he lived.

A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet''s Carmen from 1875 to 1945.

Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media.

Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "e;unspeakable"e; love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history: the tragic romance of Romeo and Juliet.

Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment.

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death.

What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining?

Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen.

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.

John Adams's opera, Nixon in China, is one of the most frequently performed operas in the contemporary literature.

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful?

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.

Leading specialists explore a wide range of topics and issues surrounding the influential and controversial figure Richard Wagner.

Perfect for music students and opera-goers, this book investigates what opera is, how it works and how it has developed.

The complete dramatic toolbox for the opera singer a step-by-step guide detailing how to create character, from auditions through to rehearsal and performance and formulate a successful career.

Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas.

Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle poque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "e;Carmen industry.

In Halfway Home, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his moving life story - a story Barbara Walters calls 'so amazing you may find it hard to believe' - of overcoming adversity and attaining worldwide success in several different fields.

Bryan Gilliam explores the composer''s response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss'' stage works and their historical contexts.

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

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.

Throughout early modern Europe, patronage became a means for the dominant classes to highlight their wealth, intellectual finesse, and cultural and political agendas, particularly within the court and religious institutions.

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

Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism provides a snapshot of the diverse ways in which medievalism--the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages--powerfully transforms many of the varied musical traditions of the last two centuries.

Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bartk explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pellas et Mlisande (1902) and Bartk's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - transformed the harmonic structures of the traditional major/minor scale system into a new musical language.

This title was originally published in 1973.

Jacques Offenbach veränderte die Musikgeschichte wie kaum ein anderer Komponist seiner Zeit.

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

The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society.

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!

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, ein Name, der in den Salons Europas einst glanzvoll widerhallte, steht heute im Schatten der großen Wiener Klassik.

When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press correspondents to write slanted notices.

Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salome took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century.

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro?

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

Who's Who and What's What in Wagner aims to fill a notable gap in the extensive literature surrounding the works of Richard Wagner.