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Acclaimed for treading new ground in operatic studies of the period, Simon Morrison’s influential and now-classic text explores music and the occult during the Russian Symbolist movement. Including ……続きを見る

Beyond Reason relates 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, Tri……続きを見る

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri*ー*sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayーRobert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artisti……続きを見る

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Af……続きを見る

Romantic Anatomies of Performance is concerned with the very matter of musical expression: the hands and voices of virtuosic musicians. Rubini, Chopin, Nourrit, Liszt, Donzelli, Thalberg, Velluti, S……続きを見る

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents……続きを見る

The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories ……続きを見る

Just Beyond Listening asks how we might think about encounters with sound that complicate standard accounts of aurality. In a series of essays, Michael C. Heller considers how sound functions in dia……続きを見る

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly i……続きを見る

Why are some of the most beloved and frequently performed works of the late-romantic periodーMahler, Delius, Debussy, Sibelius, Pucciniーregarded by many critics as perhaps not quite of the first ra……続きを見る

The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western class……続きを見る

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses……続きを見る

This book offers readers a fascinating new look into the spiritual side of operetta and musical theatre, two closely related genres often dismissed as trivial, shallow, and essentially secular. Brad……続きを見る

A clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. If you've decided that the time has finally come t……続きを見る

While the music of Richard Wagner has long served as a touchstone for music-theoretical and analytical models both old and new, music analysts have often been intimidated by the complexity of his wo……続きを見る

An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essays Opera intertwines the drama of the the……続きを見る

2030, l’ère des calculateurs d’empreinte carbone. Face au défi climatique, chaque tonne de CO2 compte et les gouvernements légifèrent drastiquement à travers le monde. Comme tout à chacun, l’Opéra d……続きを見る

On s’occupe rarement des chanteurs d’une façon un peu instructive, et on ne le fait point de manière à ce que l’étude de leur talent soit profitable. On encense les favoris du jour, on les couvre de……続きを見る

Depuis un bon siècle et demi, le nom d’Eugène Scribe, inventeur du vaudeville moderne, dramaturge le plus populaire d’Europe un siècle durant et librettiste le plus respecté de son époque, est deven……続きを見る

À la suite de la première des Contes d’Hoffmann, Ernest Reyer avouait : « Je doute, ai-je-écrit quelque part il y a bien des années déjà, qu’une œuvre sérieuse sorte de la plume de qui a écrit les e……続きを見る

Amour, star internationale du lyrique, rencontre son ange gardien lors d’une expérience de mort imminente. Son guide astral le renvoie à la vie, investi d’une mission d’ordre divin : « Révéler au mo……続きを見る

Le célèbre opéra tragique écrit pour Marin Marais par Antoine Houdar de la Motte, basé sur le mythe de Sémélé. 続きを見る

Cette édition reprend en parallèle la pièce originale de Maurice Maeterlinck en vis à vis avec le livret retravaillé conjointement avec Claude Debussy. Si la pièce aujourd'hui semble en disgrâce, ce……続きを見る

Le livret de l'opéra de Monteverdi Orfeo, fondé sur le mythe d'Orphée et Eurydice. Il se compose d'un prologue et de cinq actes. Édition bilingue. 続きを見る

En 1864, Henri Meilhac et Ludovic Halévy signent ce livret pour Jacques Offenbach. C'est ici le texte original qui est présenté, tel qu'il était joué sur les planches du Théâtre des Variétés à sa cr……続きを見る

Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in ……続きを見る

Quindici opere, venti interviste: venti conversazioni con alcuni dei più grandi interpreti dell’Opera contemporanea – direttori d’orchestra, registi, cantanti – che si sono confrontati con il Maestr……続きを見る

Pubblicata inizialmente in tedesco nel 1926 e poi ampliata e riedita in inglese nel 1942, questa è stata la prima antologia delle lettere di Giuseppe Verdi destinata a un pubblico non italiano: un l……続きを見る

Non si capisce una parola.» Spesso è questa, ammettiamolo, la sentenza di molti profani quando cala il sipario di un’opera. Eppure, fin da un’età scandalosamente giovane Alberto Mattioli del teatro ……続きを見る

Opera has long been known for its ability to be used as a tool for colonial expression. But it is increasingly used to narrate histories of colonial trauma, oppression, and struggle. What does it me……続きを見る