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Richard Strauss in Context

Richard Strauss in Context

Author: Morten Kristiansen ,  Joseph E. Jones
ISBN: 9781108422000
Format: Hardback
$243.20

A collection of specifically commissioned essays on a range of topics that contextualize the life and works of Richard...  Read More >>

Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the Journal de Paris

Disinformation in Mass Media: Gluck, Piccinni and the...

Author: Beverly Jerold ,  Simon Keefe
ISBN: 9780367350178
Format: Hardback
$105.00

The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, France’s first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an...  Read More >>

The New Book of Opera Anecdotes

The New Book of Opera Anecdotes

Author: Ethan Mordden (Freelance Author, Freelance Author)
ISBN: 9780190877682
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Building on the continued success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book of Opera Anecdotes continues...  Read More >>

Chalet Monet: Inside the Home of Dame Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge

Chalet Monet: Inside the Home of Dame Joan Sutherland...

Author: Richard Bonynge
ISBN: 9781925556629
Format: Hardback
$95.00

This sumptuously produced coffee table book captures the essence of the fairy tale that is Chalet Monet. Situated...  Read More >>

My Travels with Wagner: Music As Balsam for the Soul

My Travels with Wagner: Music As Balsam for the Soul...

Author: Chris McQuaid
ISBN: 9781682352748
Format: Paperback
$48.90

"Want a true balm for the soul? My Travels with Wagner tells the story of how author Chris McQuaid's journey took...  Read More >>

Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)

Annotated Ring Cycle: The Rhine Gold (Das Rheingold)...

Author: Walter Frederick ,  Cliff Mott
ISBN: 9781538136683
Format: Paperback
$115.00

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Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage

Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert...

Author: Judith Mabary
ISBN: 9780367479220
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Judith Mabary’s important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and...  Read More >>

My Travels with Wagner: Music As Balsam for the Soul

My Travels with Wagner: Music As Balsam for the Soul...

Author: Chris McQuaid
ISBN: 9781682353196
Format: Hardback
$75.94

"Irish National Opera Director Fergus Sheil writes: It was bittersweet to read this book and write this foreword...  Read More >>

Verdi in Victorian London

Verdi in Victorian London

Author: Massimo Zicari
ISBN: 9781013288104
Format: Paperback
$80.73

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Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism

Author: Christopher Chowrimootoo
ISBN: 9781013291760
Format: Paperback
$67.15

"Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this...  Read More >>

Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism

Author: Christopher Chowrimootoo
ISBN: 9781013291777
Format: Hardback
$77.50

"Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this...  Read More >>

Verdi in Victorian London

Verdi in Victorian London

Author: Massimo Zicari
ISBN: 9781013288111
Format: Hardback
$91.08

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Author: Nina Penner
ISBN: 9780253049971
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories....  Read More >>

Stand Up Straight and Sing!: A Memoir

Stand Up Straight and Sing!: A Memoir

Author: Jessye Norman ,  Mia Ellis
ISBN: 9781696601443
Format: Audio
$92.37

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Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage

Deviant Opera: Sex, Power, and Perversion on Stage

Author: Axel Englund
ISBN: 9780520343252
Format: Hardback
$54.95

Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber...  Read More >>

Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera

Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Gabriela Cruz (Assistant Professor, Historical Musicology, Assistant Professor, Historical Musicology, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance)
ISBN: 9780190915056
Format: Hardback
$191.95

A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores...  Read More >>

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Author: Nina Penner
ISBN: 9780253049964
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories....  Read More >>

Richard D’Oyly Carte

Richard D’Oyly Carte

Author: Paul Seeley
ISBN: 9780367664374
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of...  Read More >>

Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural Organizations: Insights from the Careers of Executive Opera Managers of Color in the US

Access, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Cultural...

Author: Antonio C. Cuyler (Florida State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138587106
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers...  Read More >>

Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven Song

Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse: Essays on Beethoven...

Author: Amanda Glauert
ISBN: 9780367463564
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which...  Read More >>

Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Author: Pamela Karantonis ,  Francesca Placanica
ISBN: 9780367669294
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing...  Read More >>

The Politics of Verdi's Cantica

The Politics of Verdi's Cantica

Author: Roberta Montemorra Marvin
ISBN: 9780367669461
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This study unpacks the history of Verdi's composition from its creation, performance, and publication in the 1860s...  Read More >>

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

Author: Mark Everist
ISBN: 9780367664176
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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