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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES. ____________ How did modern classical music develop over the 20th Century? What enabled women to get their music performed in the early 1900s? Which class……続きを見る

Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with aston……続きを見る

Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the ……続きを見る

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. Mozart’s unusual childhood as a mus……続きを見る

The New Pocket Kobbe's Complete Opera Book is the world's leading reference work on opera, and (in the words of Bernard Levin) 'no single-volume operatic guide can possibly compare with it'. Kobbe i……続きを見る

In Halfway Home, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his moving life story - a story Barbara Walters calls 'so amazing you may find it hard to believe' - of overcomi……続きを見る

Russell 'The Voice' Watson is a star with a real story to tell. While most stars of today find success early, Russell was still working in a Salford factory at the age of 30. He spent the evenings s……続きを見る

In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes ……続きを見る

The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on trans……続きを見る

Entre en el mundo de la música por sus bastidores y prepárese para un viaje insospechado por las intimidades de sus protagonistas. "Música para fisgones" es un libro pensado para los amantes de la m……続きを見る

Opera kan forekomme svært, elitært og uforståeligt. Det er overvægtige kvinder og pompøse mænd med alt for meget gelé i håret, der synger alt for højt og længe på et uforståeligt sprog. Det er noget……続きを見る

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late ope……続きを見る

'A beautiful and important book' - Marina Mahler Gustav Mahler wrote some of the most challenging and cherished music of all time: eleven extraordinary symphonies that continue to fascinate, intrigu……続きを見る

This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozart’s late opera seria La clemenza di Tito. The book’s thesis i……続きを見る

Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world – live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric art f……続きを見る

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the……続きを見る

As a legacy of the Habsburg Empire, performances of Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works played an important role in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth century. However, between the……続きを見る

Packed full of new archival evidence that reveals the interconnected world of music theatre during the 'Classical era', this interdisciplinary study investigates key locations, genres, music, and mu……続きを見る

A világfa-kőris darabokra törve várja a világégés eljövetelét, a sors fonalai menthetetlenül összegabalyodtak. Brünnhildét és Siegfriedet intrikával terelgetik másik férfi, illetve másik nő felé. A ……続きを見る

La russa Anna Netrebko è attualmente il soprano più celebre nel mondo, considerata la vera erede di Renata Tebaldi (per la liricità della voce) e di Maria Callas (per la forza interpretativa ed il c……続きを見る

The Stage Works of Philip Glass is the first publication to exclusively examine Glass's stage works from 1976 to the present day. Glass, who is regularly acclaimed as the most popular living classic……続きを見る

Im Dunkeln sitzend und mit stiller Aufmerksamkeit folgen wir heute dem Operngeschehen auf der Bühne. Das war nicht immer so. Wer wissen möchte, was die Oper einst war, wie sie sich bis heute entwick……続きを見る

In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first……続きを見る

Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronolog……続きを見る

Dentre os nomes dos grandes renovadores do fazer teatral do início do século XX, que impulsionaram a arte da encenação para a modernidade, Adolphe Appia é presença tão marcante quanto Gordon Craig, ……続きを見る

Piero Mioli (Bologna, 1947), docente di Storia della Musica presso il Conservatorio di Bologna, è uno dei più apprezzati musicologi italiani. Svolge un’appassionata attività di scrittore e divulgato……続きを見る

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety o……続きを見る

How did "voice" become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteen……続きを見る

In Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches, Paul Thom argues for opera as an art, standing alongside other artforms that employ visual and sonic media to embody the great themes of human life. Thom con……続きを見る

Experience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide. Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and disc……続きを見る