Opera

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.

Through analysis, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the legacy of the leitmotif, from Wagner''s Ring cycle to present-day Hollywood film music.

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.

Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art.

An authoritative, accessible reference work that brings together current knowledge and new interpretive insights into Haydn''s music and cultural influence.

Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted.

Alessandro Scarlattis (1660-1725) Kompositionen decken alle zu seiner Zeit gangigen Gattungen ab.

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power.

Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried.

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

Summarizing the recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Strauss, this volume focuses on genres, social context, and perennially controversial topics.

The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society.

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage?

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

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

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera.

First Published in 1994.

A definitive source study of the stage works of Harrison Birtwistle, one of Britain''s foremost living composers.

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosA fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another.

In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W.

In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrarapresents a detailed, practical exploration of the staging of twenty-one scenes from two of opera's most beloved composers.

Explicitly or not, the historical musicology of post-Revolutionary France has focused on Paris as a proxy for the rest of the country.

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

This book explores the crossroads between autobiographical narratives and musical composition in Alban Berg's Lulu, unveiling aspects of encoded social customs, gender identity, and personal experiences within musical structures.

You are getting ready for a performance of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore and you have a few questions.

"e;The first volume of Perle's magnificent study focused on Wozuck .

Making use of archival resources in the United Kingdom and the United States, Regina B.

Explores a range of topics that contextualize Strauss''s life and works, such as collaborators, influences, philosophy, and the profession.

An acknowledged master of melodie, Francis Poulenc's prolific song uvre exceeds the collections of all other French composers who wrote in this genre.

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976.

Rolland's biography attempts to provide an overview of Handel's life and works from his early lessons in music to the classical context in which he is commonly placed.

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked.

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.

Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.

David Kimbell sets Handel''s operas in their biographical and cultural contexts, exploring drama, music and styles of performance.

In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel updates her work on operas written specifically to an English text, including not only works originally in English but also those set to new English librettos.

'A Gilbert is of no use without a Sullivan.

Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment.

La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly - Puccini's operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.

Il volume raccoglie le relazioni tenute a Napoli nel 2021 in occasione di un convegno su Caruso e il suo t empo ed altri contributi che si concentrano su numerosi nuovi aspetti della sua vita e della sua carriera – e del mondo operistico tra la fine del XIX secolo e i primi del Novecento.

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914).

This book charts the life of Arthur Sullivan--the best loved and most widely performed British composer in history.