Opera

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

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.

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

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

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.

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

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

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic period-Mahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Puccini-regarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first rank?

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

The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain.

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.

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre.

John Deathridge presents a different and critical view of Richard Wagner based on recent research that does not shy away from some unpalatable truths about this most controversial of composers in the canon of Western music.

When Nietzsche dubbed Richard Wagner "e;the most enthusiastic mimomaniac"e; ever to exist, he was objecting to a hollowness he felt in the music, a crowding out of any true dramatic impulse by extravagant poses and constant nervous movements.

Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music scholarship in the later twentieth century.

In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview.

Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro?

In this colorful and detailed history, Joshua Goldstein describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China.

Opera performances are often radically inventive.

Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odeon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration.

An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age.

Opera developed during a time when the position of women-their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality-was constantly debated.

Newark studies the development of a key device in French fiction of the nineteenth century: the soirée à l''Opéra.

Newark studies the development of a key device in French fiction of the nineteenth century: the soirée à l''Opéra.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

Elegantly and engagingly written, this study demonstrates how opera has communicated with its diverse audiences over time.

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

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

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

This book examines the innovative ways in which Richard Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself using every means available.

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

A study of nineteenth-century French and Italian opera, focusing on the work of Verdi.

A study of the music of the internationally known contemporary Dutch composer, Louis Andriessen.

Schoenberg''s Musical Imagination is intended to connect Schoenberg''s music and critical writings to a larger world of ideas.

A study of opera in Italy and France from the 1600s to the present day.

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

Throughout this 2004 book, Goehring''s argument is sustained by close readings of primary sources and is richly illustrated with musical examples.

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

Simon Williams addresses one of the most controversial aspects of Wagner''s work, heroes and the heroic.

An essential reference work which provides comprehensive coverage of Mozart''s life and works.

Offers the first book-length examination of Statius'' unfinished epic, the Achilleid.

Explores the cultural life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.