In dieser Monographie zu Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau werden erstmals sämtliche überlieferten Quellen erschlossen und so differenzierte Einblicke in die Entstehungsgeschichte der Oper gegeben.
Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral.
Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral.
This volume focuses on the circumstances of women's music-making in the vibrant and diverse environment of the Czech lands during the nineteenth century.
The "e;keys"e; provided by Herve Lacombe in this richly informed book open the door to understanding the essence of nineteenth-century French lyric theater.
The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera.
The series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera.
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.
Since its premiere in 1868, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg has defied repeated upheavals in the cultural-political landscape of German statehood to retain its unofficial status as the German national opera.
What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.
What people ultimately want from opera, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead them to insights about life and, perhaps, themselves.
In seinen drei romantischen Opern Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser und Lohengrin entwirft Richard Wagner ein ideales Menschenbild, das sich genauso in den weiblichen Hauptfiguren wie in den männlichen Titelgestalten verkörpert – das Bild einer starken Individualität, die nach voller Entfaltung ihrer Möglichkeiten strebt und dadurch zwangsläufig in Konflikt mit der Natur und der Gesellschaft gerät.
THE HISTORY OF OPERA FOR BEGINNERS is an illuminating book that starts with the radical assumption that opera is simply music, rather than the highbrow, inaccessible art form that many assume it to be.
El presente libro da cuenta de la memoria documental y fotográfica del Taller de Ópera de la Escuela de Música de la Universidad del Valle durante los veintidós años de su historia como proceso académico.
In this collection of essays Mary Cyr explores some of the written and unwritten performance conventions that applied to French and English music of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Sweeping across countries, class and music, Eva Ibboton's classic historical romance, Magic Flutes, is a richly imagined tale of intrigue and identity.
