Opera

A collection of specially commissioned essays investigating the extraordinary diversity of twentieth-century opera.

Written to meet the needs of thousands of students and pre-professional singers participating in production workshops and classes in opera and musical theater, Acting for Singers leads singing performers step by step from the studio or classroom through audition and rehearsals to a successful performance.

Reveals how the musical benefit allowed musicians, composers, and audiences to engage in new professional, financial, and artistic contexts.

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond.

The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German.

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

How well do you think you know your opera?

Beyond Reasonrelates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:Der Ring des Nibelungen,Tristan und Isolde,Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, andParsifal.

Die Habsburger waren nicht nur eine der mächtigsten Dynastien Europas, sondern auch die maßgeblichen Förderer der klassischen Musik.

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

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera's performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged.

Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe.

Throughout his life, German-Jewish composer Kurt Weill was fascinated by the idea of America.

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

Drawing on cinematic traditions of Hollywood, France, and Britain, this book investigates the relationship between opera and film.

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

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann.

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera.

Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving ''opera'', Euridice.

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

After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world.

In January 1856, Margaret Garner-an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation-ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio.

Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odeon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration.

A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms.

In the first years of the new millennium Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much loved classical singer.

New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners (composers, librettists, directors, producers, singers, dramaturgs, and administrators) who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today.

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.

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

David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart s operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders.

Funeral Games in Honor of Arthur Vincent Louri explores the varied aesthetic impulses and ever-evolving personal motivations of Russian composer Arthur Louri.

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

From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition.

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry.

Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera.

The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it.

A fascinating and comprehensive resource for information on Verdi''s works, his life and career, and his cultural influence.

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

Bryan Gilliam explores the composer''s response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss'' stage works and their historical contexts.

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death.

Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape.

There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage.

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries.

Wagner''s Melodies places the composer''s ideas about melody in the context of the scientific discourse of his age.

Ralph P.