Opera 7

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical ……続きを見る

If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversize……続きを見る

A wickedly funny look at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her li……続きを見る

The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music scene The star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a co……続きを見る

Die Doppelbiografie zweier exaltierter Musiker und Lebemänner Baron Alberto Franchetti war Giacomo Puccinis größter Rivale. Mit Opern wie »Asrael«, »Cristoforo Colombo« oder »Germania« feierte er in……続きを見る

Renowned music historian Philipp Spitta has written that “of all the German musicians of the 19th century, none has exercised a greater influence over his own generation and that succeeding it than ……続きを見る

Seit über hundert Jahren versucht man verbissen das Genie Richard Wagner als Antisemiten, Frauenfeind und undankbaren Verschwender fremden Geldes hinzustellen. All das ist nicht wahr und wird hier r……続きを見る

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 ar……続きを見る

Wie kein anderer Komponist wollte Puccini sein Publikum ergreifen, rühren und unterhalten. Schönklang, Effektsicherheit und eine mit viel Aufwand hergestellte Couleur locale machten ihn zu einem der……続きを見る

The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age chronicles the career of the most significant castrato of the second half of the eighteenth-century. Through a coincidence ……続きを見る

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan ……続きを見る

"Siegfried" ist der Zweite Tag in Wagners Tetralogie "Der Ring des Nibelungen", die Uraufführung fand 1876 im Rahmen der Eröffnungsfeierlichkeiten des Festspielhauses in Bayreuth statt. Im Gegensatz……続きを見る

Mit seiner dritten Oper "Nabucco" gelang Verdi der erste große Bühnenerfolg, nachdem er eigentlich das Komponieren aufgeben wollte. Der "Gefangenenchor", "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" ist wohl jed……続きを見る

"Carmen", komponiert nach dem Sujet der gleichnamigen Novelle von Prosper Mérimée, ist Georges Bizets letztes Werk. Der Komponist verstarb wenige Wochen nach der erfolglosen Uraufführung in Paris vo……続きを見る

"Das Rheingold" ist der 1. Teil (Vorabend) der Tetralogie "Der Ring des Nibelungen". In diesem Musikdrama Wagners kommen noch keine menschlichen Gestalten auf die Bühne. Das Drama spielt sich unter ……続きを見る

Dieses Buch, eine umfassende Einführung in Richard Wagners "Walküre", den ersten Abend der Tetralogie "Der Ring des Nibelungen", enthält das vollständige Textbuch mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Ku……続きを見る

Mit der "Götterdämmerung", dem Dritten Tag, schließt Wagner seinen "Ring des Nibelungen", mit einem Vorabend und drei Tagen, alles abendfüllende, sich über Stunden hinziehende Aufführungen. Was in d……続きを見る

Published for the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagners birth, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this in-depth and highly readable account of Wagners life, wo……続きを見る

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approac……続きを見る

Adolphe Julllien, critique musical, a connu Hector Berlioz et fut l'un de ses premiers admirateurs, et parmi les plus fervents. En plus d'une biographie exaltée du compositeur, il nous offre ……続きを見る

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. Great singers at the t……続きを見る

The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstan……続きを見る

Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsi……続きを見る

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering perform……続きを見る

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and ……続きを見る

First Published in 1994. This is volume 7 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The contents of this volu……続きを見る

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, act……続きを見る

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case ……続きを見る

How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including straight-forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical ……続きを見る

The music of Tchaikovsky remains as much loved in the twenty-first century as it was a hundred years ago. But it has so much more to offer than luscious orchestration and tuneful melodies. In Experi……続きを見る