Opera

Paul Schallweg belebt die Klassik auf ganz besondere Weise.

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

French Music in Britain 1830-1914 investigates the presence, reception and influence of French art music in Britain between 1830 (roughly the arrival of 'grand opera' and opera comique in London) and the outbreak of the First World War.

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage.

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries.

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

The Dance and Opera Stage Manager's Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance.

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.

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovDuring his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally.

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosA fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another.

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.

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet.

Das Rezitativ, der Sprechgesang, spielt zu Händels Zeiten eine wichtige Rolle in der Oper: Mit seinen Erscheinungsformen Monolog und Dialog dient es der Weiterentwicklung der Handlung, während in Arien, Duetten und Ensembles vor allem die im Rezitativ entwickelten Gefühle zum Ausdruck gebracht werden.

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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.

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.

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

Written to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through audition and rehearsals to a successful performance.

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery.

This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton's Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England.

Lyric theater in ancien regime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle.

Insights into an opera stage director's work from an internationally acclaimed director and teacher.

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

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.

Der Regisseur und Bühnenautor Erich Geiger (1924–2008) ist heute weitgehend unbekannt, obwohl er mit seinen innovativen Inszenierungsideen in den 1950er Jahren viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zog.

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

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

Theater music directors must draw on a remarkably broad range of musical skills.

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.

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.

This monograph studies opera as music drama, guided by four ideas: opera as an ambiance (setting an acoustic stage where dramatic action becomes possible), as a Gesamtkunstwerk (incorporating other arts forms into a coherent whole), as archaeology (revivifying lost worlds of experience) and as a dialectical syllogism (resulting in the negation of a paralysing negation via a dramatic act).

In this book on Richard Wagner's compelling but enigmatic masterpiece Gotterdammerung, the final opera of his monumental Ring tetralogy, Alexander H.

Im Jahr 1714 begann am Wiener Kaiserhof die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Johann Joseph Fux (ca.

Der "Idomeneo" ist eines der Schlüsselwerke im Schaffen Mozarts, der nicht müde wurde, zeitlebens für sein Lieblingskind zu werben.

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

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

German music critic and opera producer Paul Bekker (1882-1937) is a rare example of a critic granted the opportunity to turn his ideas into practice.

In January 1856, Margaret Garner-an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation-ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio.

Thomas Peattie considers the theatrical dimension of Mahler''s reinvention of the symphony at the turn of the twentieth century.

Warum ist die Herrscherfigur in der russischen Oper so allmächtig?

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures.

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

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.

This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner''s Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.

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

Beyond Reasonrelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:Der Ring des Nibelungen,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, andParsifal.