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Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring

Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion...

Author: Mark Berry
ISBN: 9781138248601
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro,...

Author: Charles Ford
ISBN: 9781138248403
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making

Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor...

Author: David Roesner
ISBN: 9781138248380
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain

The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain

Author: Thomas McGeary
ISBN: 9781316620229
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Thomas McGeary's book examines how events at the Haymarket opera theatre were exploited in partisan politics during...  Read More >>

David Lloyd - Llestr Bregus

David Lloyd - Llestr Bregus

Author: Hywel Gwynfryn
ISBN: 9781848517998
Format: Paperback
$23.26

A biography of the renowned Welsh tenor, David Lloyd.  Read More >>

The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions...

Author: Larry Wolff
ISBN: 9780804795777
Format: Hardback
$369.60

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses...  Read More >>

The Definitive Maria Callas: The Life of a Diva in Unseen Pictures

The Definitive Maria Callas: The Life of a Diva in Unseen...

Author:
ISBN: 9781909399693
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Maria Callas, one of the most influential opera singers of all time, is the definition of an icon. This lavish visual...  Read More >>

Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor

Roland Hayes: The Legacy of an American Tenor

Author: Christopher A. Brooks ,  Robert Sims
ISBN: 9780253023810
Format: Paperback
$66.00

It is an authentic, panoramic portrait of a man who was as complex as the music he performed.  Read More >>

Meyerbeer and Grand Opera from the July Monarchy to the Present

Meyerbeer and Grand Opera from the July Monarchy to...

Author: Both Professors of Music Mark Everist
ISBN: 9782503568423
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Giacomo Meyerbeer stands as one of the great paradoxes in music history. Widely regarded as the single most important...  Read More >>

Eighteenth-Century Russian Music

Eighteenth-Century Russian Music

Author: Marina Ritzarev
ISBN: 9781138249462
Format: Paperback
$120.00

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Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

Author: Clair Rowden
ISBN: 9781138252851
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard...  Read More >>

Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century

Women Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to...

Author: Mary F. McVicker
ISBN: 9780786495139
Format: Paperback
$60.50

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A Book of Operas

A Book of Operas

Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
ISBN: 9781537748221
Format: Paperback
$34.29

A Book of Operas from Henry Edward Krehbiel. American music critic and musicologist (1854-1923).  Read More >>

Opera Trittico di Puccini: Il Tabarro * Sour Angelica * Gianni Schicchi

Opera Trittico di Puccini: Il Tabarro * Sour Angelica...

Author: B Menendez ,  Giacomo Puccini
ISBN: 9781537595023
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and...  Read More >>

Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Libretto zu Mozarts Singspiel in drei Aufzügen

Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Libretto zu Mozarts Singspiel...

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ,  Johann Gottlieb Stephanie
ISBN: 9781537696058
Format: Paperback
$20.86

Johann Gottlieb Stephanie, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Libretto zu Mozarts Singspiel...  Read More >>

Götterdämmerung

Götterdämmerung

Author: Richard Wagner (Princeton Ma) ,  Richard Kleinmichel
ISBN: 9783742834980
Format: Paperback
$96.36

Götterdämmerung ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1880. Hansebooks...  Read More >>

Invocations of Europe: Music Theatre and the Romanian Principalities 1775–1852

Invocations of Europe: Music Theatre and the Romanian...

Author: Sabina Cismas
ISBN: 9783205202165
Format: Paperback
$229.68

Die Monographie ergänzt die Reihe um ein Land, das bisher in der Musik- und Operngeschichte Europas kaum beachtet...  Read More >>

Giacomo Puccini and His World

Giacomo Puccini and His World

Author: Arman Schwartz ,  Emanuele Senici
ISBN: 9780691172866
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning...  Read More >>

Das Melodramatische ALS Vertonungsstrategie: Robert Schumanns Balladen Op. 106 Und Op. 122

Das Melodramatische ALS Vertonungsstrategie: Robert...

Author: Esther Dubke
ISBN: 9783631697061
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

Vor dem Hintergrund einer rezeptionsasthetischen Kehrtwende stellen Schumanns Konzertmelodramen wegweisende Kompositionen...  Read More >>

The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds

The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds

Author: Martha Feldman
ISBN: 9780520292444
Format: Paperback
$57.95

An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay
ISBN: 9781537297538
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The Peachums, employers of a company of pickpockets, shoplifters, and thieves, raised their daughter Polly for finer...  Read More >>

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