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With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a s……続きを見る

With the 'Tristan chord' at the start of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, the composer launched modern music. The political refugee, a former revolutionary, was living in Zurich when the lovely Ma……続きを見る

Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death ……続きを見る

Britten's opera Peter Grimes is based on George Crabbe's horrifying poem The Borough about early 19th century Aldeburgh, a North Sea fishing town in East Anglia. Its premiere at Sadlers Wells in 194……続きを見る

Rossini's La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire – the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. Its first performanc……続きを見る

With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovann……続きを見る

The Paris audience in 1875 was shocked by the sexually explicit realism of Bizet's exotic operatic masterpiece, its 'verismo' depiction of low life and brutal passion. But since the disastrous premi……続きを見る

The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini's famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Bizet's Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being ……続きを見る

Butterfly is a delicate and impressionable geisha who thinks she has married Pinkerton, a US naval officer briefly stationed in Japan. Naive and loving as she is, she does not realise that for him t……続きを見る

The great Russian poet Pushkin's novel in verse tells the story of Tatyana, a love-struck country girl who unwisely wrote to the arrogant city-slicker Yevgeny Onegin professing her love. The tale re……続きを見る

Wagner's operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner's musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer's underlyi……続きを見る

Puccini's obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished 'artistes' in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daught……続きを見る

Although the story of Figaro's success in preventing the Count of Almaviva's seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened H……続きを見る

From the première of Rigoletto at Venice's La Fenice in 1851, the Duke's La donna è mobile caught on with the public and has done much to ensure the ongoing popularity of Verdi's opera about the bod……続きを見る

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 cultur……続きを見る

本书分为初级、中级、高级三部分，共收入了30首经典作品，作者从作品介绍、原版及翻译歌词、演唱提示等几个版块进行阐述，同时配以完整曲谱与音频配套资源，让学习者能得到全方位的训练。该教程在系统引导学生训练……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, or……続きを見る

What is the role of classical music in the 21st century? How will classical musicians maintain their relevance and purpose? This book follows the working activities of professional orchestral musici……続きを見る

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned m……続きを見る

"Sing Smart" by Vandi Enzor is an indispensable handbook for singers of all levels, providing a comprehensive guide to achieving and maintaining vocal health and longevity. Whether you are a beginne……続きを見る

'[An] extraordinary and exciting book' - John Simpson Beethoven's string quartets have long been held up as the pinnacle of chamber music: their fertility, complexity, depth and range mark them out ……続きを見る

Nel marzo 2020 l'Italia, così come tutti i paesi del mondo, ha dovuto fare i conti con l'improvvisa esplosione della pandemia da Covid-19. Secondo i dati della WHO, al 20 gennaio 2023, la pandemia h……続きを見る

¿Qué códigos musicales representan la masculinidad y la feminidad en la ópera temprana del siglo XVII? ¿De qué manera contribuye el sonido a la organización social de la sexualidad? ¿Cómo se ha mani……続きを見る

"When the history of the Metropolitan Opera around the time of the millennium is written, Karita Mattila will deserve her own chapter." New York Times Aikamme suurimpiin oopperalaulajiin kuuluva Kar……続きを見る

Aunque no sea necesario poseer conocimientos musicales para escuchar y sentir una sonata, un concierto, una sinfonía, un cuarteto de cuerdas o una ópera, adquirirlos ayudará sin duda al oyente a goz……続きを見る

In witty, bitchy letters passing between London and San Diego, two gay men who are intimate friends discuss their adventures and desires. Francis, a visiting professor of literature in California, a……続きを見る

This chronicle of renowned composer Richard Wagner and his descendants features "a cast of characters who are positively operatic in their histrionics" ( The Guardian). Richard Wagner was many thing……続きを見る

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty w……続きを見る

Een special over de Semperoper en de Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Erkend als mondiaal één van de meest gerenommeerde theaters, de Semperoper. Dat straalt het in alles uit. Gebouw imposant. In……続きを見る

As both an in-depth study of Mozart criticism and performance practice in Prague, and a history of how eighteenth-century opera was appropriated by later political movements and social groups, this ……続きを見る