Opera

Schindlers List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich.

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers.

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

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production.

London operatic adaptations have been maligned, but this comprehensive study demonstrates their importance to theatre, opera and canon formation.

The director was fundamental to the development of modern theatre.

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Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed.

This comprehensive bibliography and research guide details all the works currently available on Vincenzo Bellini, the Italian opera composer best known for his work Norma, which is still regularly performed today at Covent Garden and by regional opera companies.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Scholars have long recognized Carl Maria von Weber as the father of the German Romantic and Nationalist music.

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

A major re-orientation in understanding opera, exploring musical comedies with spoken dialogue previously excluded from historical accounts.

Any singer longing to have a career in opera, particularly in Europe, should be familiar with the European system of classifying voices know as Fach.

The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts.

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

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

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

The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work.

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening.

The first comprehensive study of musical form in operatic and concert overtures in continental Europe between 1815 and 1850.

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality.

'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his multifaceted career as performer, teacher, composer, concert promoter and opera impresario.

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.

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

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond.

The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance.

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.

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

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

"e;Operetta: A Theatrical History"e; is considered the classic history of this important musical theater form.

From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form.

Singing in Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera offers a bold and refreshing assessment of the state of opera study as seen through the lens of semiotics.

Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media.

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

This book responds to recent debates on cultural participation and the relevance of music composed today with the first large-scale audience experience study on contemporary classical music.

The Gesamtkunstwerk ('total work of art'), once a key concept in Wagner studies, has become problematic.

Gaetano Donizetti: A Research and Information Guide offers an annotated reference guide to the life and works of this important Italian opera composer.

Opera in the Tropics is an engaging exploration of theater with music in Brazil from the mid 1500s to the early 1820s.

A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world.

A contributory volume, first published in 2007, providing extensive treatment of Monteverdi, his music and his life.

This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.

This is the first book-length study of Australian theatre productions by internationally-renowned director, Barrie Kosky.

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

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.