Opera

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.

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.

Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years.

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.

The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety.

How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character?

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

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

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.

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture.

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun, first staged in 1913 in St Petersburg, was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes designed by Kazimir Malevich.

Originally published in 1997, Collins Opera & Operetta is an invaluable guide to this fascinating but sometimes misunderstood art form, presenting essential information on over 180 major operas and operettas in an accessible, yet scholarly, way.

Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture.

This edition does not include photographs.

Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of W.

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field.

Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry.

This is a chapter from Alex Ross's groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, 'The Rest is Noise'.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself.

The Shubert name has been synonymous with Broadway for almost as long as Broadway entertainment itself.

A Space Opera.

'A fine, intellectually sparkling and always engaging little book - a welcome addition to any Wagner library'Hans Vaget, Opera QuarterlyWhilst no one would dispute Wagner's ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer.