Opera

Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world.

In Robert Ward's The Crucible: Creating an American Musical Nationalism, Robert Paul Kolt explores the life of the American composer Robert Ward through an examination of his most popular and enduring work, The Crucible.

"e;Qu'est-ce que c'est?

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

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

This illustrated study is a resource for opera scholars, opera workers and opera lovers.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The partnership between William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan and their canon of Savoy Operas is rightly lauded by all lovers of comic opera the world over.

The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century?

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century?

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

Detailed examination of the vocal and interpretive artistry of the great Jussi Bjorling.

Offers fresh perspectives on the function of nationalist thought in the cosmopolitan opera world, with particular emphasis on the idea of "e;Russianness"e; in four nineteenth-century operas by Glinka, Serov, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Examines the impact of contemporary ideas about the psyche and neglected yet crucial artistic influences on the psychological dimension of Wagner's operas, especially Die Feen, Der fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, and the Ring.

Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet.

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet.

Elfride Trötschel (1913–1958) war eine Sopranistin aus Dresden.

Nicht weniger als 37 Jahre - mehr als Wagners halbes Leben - vergehen vom ersten Gedanken an eine Oper "Parsifal" bis zu ihrer Uraufführung in Bayreuth im Jahre 1882 - es war Wagners letztes Bühnenwerk vor seinem Tode am 13.

¿Qué códigos musicales representan la masculinidad y la feminidad en la ópera temprana del siglo XVII?

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume.

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Paul Atkinson explores the remarkable world of opera through his fieldwork with the internationally known Welsh National Opera company.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was born at 17 Southampton Street just off the Strand in London on November 18th 1836.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was born at 17 Southampton Street just off the Strand in London on November 18th 1836.

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was born at 17 Southampton Street just off the Strand in London on November 18th 1836.

Examines the remarkable career of leading soprano castrato Venanzio Rauzzini (1746-1810), the first castrato to make Britain his home.

Wagner's Ring addresses fundamental concerns that have faced humanity down the centuries, such as power and violence, love and death, freedom and fate.

In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics.

A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach's earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig.

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.

This volume covers aspects of opera translation within the Western world and in Asia, as well as some of opera's many travels between continents, countries, languages and cultures-and also between genres and media.

Esta obra nos ofrece un recorrido singular del espectáculo operístico desde un punto de vista inédito: el trágico final de muchos personajes al que se ven abocados tras el desarrollo de una trama en la que suelen primar temas como la locura, la enfermedad, la pena, la angustia o el amor.

Roger Alier, autor de la "Guía universal de la ópera", obra de referencia entre los melómanos, nos ofrece una visión histórica del género lírico, desde Claudio Monteverdi, considerado el primer operista verdadero, hasta el postverismo y las últimas tendencias.

La ópera no es solo un espectáculo, sino también un lugar de encuentro donde se reconocen las más intensas pasiones humanas.

Tras los acontecimientos revolucionarios que tuvieron lugar en Dresde en la primavera de 1849, Wagner se vio forzado a exiliarse en Zurich.

De la ópera Rigoletto se puede disfrutar tanto de su lograda música, como de la calidad y el arte de las voces que interpretan su brillante parte cantada.

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

Richard Wagners Opern "Tristan" und "Meistersinger" sind nicht nur musikalisch sehr unterschiedlich, sie scheinen sich auch in ihrer geistigen Aussage zu widersprechen: hier Eros und Sehnsucht nach Tod und Auflösung, dort Ethos und der Glaube an die hohe Mission der Kunst für das Leben.

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

An der Schnittstelle von Opernforschung, Musikalienhandel und Verlagswesen widmen sich international ausgewiesene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Verbreitung von musikalischen Operndrucken in der deutschsprachigen Verlagslandschaft des .

Der italienische Komponist Agostino Steffani (1654–1728) erlebt in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der Musikwissenschaft als auch in der Aufführungspraxis eine Renaissance.

"In welcher Erscheinung die Obraszowa auch vor uns tritt, wir werden sofort zwei Gegensätze wahrnehmen, zwischen denen sich ihre Persönlichkeit bewegt.