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A vivid grasp of the story and the characters in "The Ring of Niebelung" brings Richard Wagner's mythic four-opera cycle to life. The Ring Cycle has a hold on our imagination like no other operatic ……続きを見る

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history. M……続きを見る

This short biography of the famous composer Richard Wagner details his life, his works and gives the reader an interesting guide to the style that defined this master of operas and other musical wor……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

STANDARD-OPERAGLASS CONTAINING THE DETAILED PLOTS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE CELEBRATED OPERAS WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL REMARKS, DATES &c. &c. 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

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

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

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

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

A fascinating look at the history and development of opera as an art form, looking at many famous examples. 続きを見る

Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek poli……続きを見る

This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni,……続きを見る

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American si……続きを見る

Von allen dramatischen Künsten hat einzig die Oper keinen handwerklichen Kanon entwickelt, den man beherrschen muss, um die Kunst überhaupt ausüben zu können. In der Oper gilt: jeder darf mal. Anyth……続きを見る

Oper, eine verstaubte Angelegenheit? Mitnichten. Gerade in den letzten Jahren hat die Oper einen Popularitätsschub erlebt. Zum einen verdankt sich dies sicherlich Musikerpersönlichkeiten wie Anna Ne……続きを見る

Verdi ließ sich lange bitten, bevor er eine Oper "für ein sehr fernes Land" zu schreiben bereit war: Der Gedanke an "Aida" erwuchs im Zusammenhang mit dem Bau des Suez-Kanals, zu dessen Eröffnungsfe……続きを見る

Mozarts "Don Giovanni", seit der Prager Uraufführung 1787 eine der meistgespielten und -geliebten Opern, liegt die altbekannte, uralte Figur des "Frauenverführers" zu Grunde. Der Charakter des trieb……続きを見る

This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent ……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

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

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

Musical Symbolism in the Operas of Debussy and Bart?k explores the means by which two early 20th century operas - Debussy's Pell?as et M?lisande (1902) and Bart?k's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (1911) - ……続きを見る

Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era o……続きを見る

This classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more co……続きを見る

New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers, singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Pucc……続きを見る

In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form.……続きを見る

Rolland’s biography attempts to provide an overview of Handel’s life and works from his early lessons in music to the classical context in which he is commonly placed. Originally published in Englis……続きを見る

To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in ……続きを見る