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Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to……続きを見る

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.続きを見る

The Wagner Compendium presents a comprehensive survey of the man, his oeuvre and his times. The musical and intellectual background and influences which helped shape the Wagnerian canon are consider……続きを見る

How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. ……続きを見る

This is a chapter from Alex Ross’s groundbreaking history of twentieth-century classical music, ‘The Rest is Noise’. Further extracts are available as digital shorts, accompanying the London Southba……続きを見る

Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera a……続きを見る

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balan……続きを見る

A Space Opera. An ambitious, incredible – Space Opera! A science-fiction story which occasionally breaks off into song – a genuine space opera. Quite possibly Aldiss’s strangest novel, and that is s……続きを見る

The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and s……続きを見る

This rich collection of twenty-three soprano-range opera arias ranges from the dawn of Italian opera through the late 1800s, featuring early opera arias by Caccini, Campra, and Bononcini; works by e……続きを見る

‘A fine, intellectually sparkling and always engaging little book – a welcome addition to any Wagner library’ Hans Vaget, Opera Quarterly Whilst no one would dispute Wagner’s ranking among the most ……続きを見る

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was not only a brilliant and innovative composer and the greatest piano virtuoso of the 19th century; he was also a generous popularizer of other composers' music. One of his……続きを見る

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.続きを見る

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading schol……続きを見る

"Lois Alba is a master teacher, ...I have never seen a vocal instructor who got such remarkable results in such a short time." - Irene Dalis, General Director, Opera San Jose Achieving a successful ……続きを見る

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.続きを見る

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.” –Ernest Newman In Seventeen Famous Operas, renowned musicologist and music critic Ernest……続きを見る

Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and di……続きを見る

'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine ……続きを見る

Richard Wagner war Sachse. In Leipzig geboren, in Dresden aufgewachsen und als Komponist und Kapellmeister an der Semperoper erfolgreich, war Richard Wagner auch Bewohner sächsischer Städ……続きを見る

This exemplary new edition of the vocal score of an enchanting operetta ー which has delighted audiences for over a century with its catchy melodies, its witty lyrics, and its madcap tale of tender-……続きを見る

Romance, murder, and revenge ー Don Giovanni offers an ingenious blend of comic and tragic elements in recounting the adventures of a dashing libertine whose trail of seductions and abandonments lea……続きを見る

Stuart Hamilton is a well-known Canadian musician who has been in the forefront of music in Canada for more than 60 years. Here, in this memoir, he recounts his sometimes hectic assault on the Canad……続きを見る

A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and A……続きを見る

Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorou……続きを見る

Prosper Mérimée’s original novella that was famous adapted as an opera by Georges Bizet. 続きを見る

David Beard presents the first definitive survey of Harrison Birtwistle's music for the opera house and theatre, from his smaller-scale works, such as Down by the Greenwood Side and Bow Down, to the……続きを見る

Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact……続きを見る

Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-ex……続きを見る

Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today. 続きを見る