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Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England, Volume 2

Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and...

Author: George Hogarth
ISBN: 9781357111854
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Wagner as I Knew Him

Wagner as I Knew Him

Author: Ferdinand Praeger
ISBN: 9781357130824
Format: Hardback
$73.79

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co....  Read More >>

Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Giuseppe Verdi ,  Arrigo Boito
ISBN: 9781357010065
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Italian only, with an introductory plot synopsis in English.  Read More >>

Il Trovatore: (The Troubadour) Opera in Four Acts

Il Trovatore: (The Troubadour) Opera in Four Acts

Author: Giuseppe Verdi ,  Salvatore Cammarano
ISBN: 9781356848812
Format: Hardback
$68.51

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Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Giuseppe Verdi ,  Arrigo Boito
ISBN: 9781356769377
Format: Hardback
$60.59

Italian only, with an introductory plot synopsis in English.  Read More >>

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

Author: Siegfried Kracauer ,  Gwenda David
ISBN: 9781890951313
Format: Paperback
$76.43

A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris.  Read More >>

Charles Francois Gounod: A Research and Information Guide

Charles Francois Gounod: A Research and Information...

Author: Timothy Flynn
ISBN: 9781138970199
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet

Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art...

Author: Ann Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9780199392544
Format: Hardback
$71.95

To most people, the term ""opera house"" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men...  Read More >>

The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas, with Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates, Etc., Etc.

The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of the Celebrated...

Author: Charles Annesley
ISBN: 9781356178636
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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Hansel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts

Hansel and Gretel: A Fairy Opera in Three Acts

Author: Engelbert Humperdinck ,  Adelheid Wette
ISBN: 9781356005826
Format: Hardback
$63.23

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The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth

The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival...

Author: Albert Lavignac
ISBN: 9781355719786
Format: Hardback
$79.07

First published in 1897, this book about Wagner and his works, presents a careful and probing analyses of both the...  Read More >>

Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins

Author: Nicholas Martin ,  Jasper Rees
ISBN: 9781509824687
Format: Paperback
$43.96

The remarkable story of America's best-known - and least-talented - soprano, Florence Foster Jenkins, now the subject...  Read More >>

The Philosophies of Richard Wagner

The Philosophies of Richard Wagner

Author: Julian Young
ISBN: 9780739199947
Format: Paperback
$113.00

Julian Young presents Richard Wagner as an important philosopher of art and life, first as a utopian anarchist-communist...  Read More >>

Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor Uhlig, Wilhelm Fischer, and Ferdinand Hein

Richard Wagner's Letters to His Dresden Friends, Theodor...

Author: Richard Wagner (Princeton, MA) ,  Theodor Uhlig
ISBN: 9781355213895
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay
ISBN: 9781355072362
Format: Hardback
$57.95

A depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt...  Read More >>

How to Enjoy Opera

How to Enjoy Opera

Author: John Snelson (Theatre, Royal Opera House, UK)
ISBN: 9781783198238
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Wagner and His Isolde

Wagner and His Isolde

Author: Gustav Kobbe
ISBN: 9781354717295
Format: Hardback
$68.51

The 1905 translation of Wagner's intense letters to the poet Mathilde Wesendonck, muse for one of his greatest operas....  Read More >>

Parsifal: Mr. B.J. Lang's Private Performance of the Music of Wagner's Parsifal at Symphony Hall, Boston, Tuesday, January 6, 1903

Parsifal: Mr. B.J. Lang's Private Performance of the...

Author: Richard Wagner
ISBN: 9781354444528
Format: Hardback
$60.59

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Standard Operaglass: Containing the Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Thirty Celebrated Operas with Critical and Biographical Remarks, Dates &C. &C

The Standard Operaglass: Containing the Detailed Plots...

Author: Charles Annesley
ISBN: 9781354361221
Format: Hardback
$76.43

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Falstaff: A Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

Author: Giuseppe Verdi ,  Arrigo Boito
ISBN: 9781354305744
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Italian only, with an introductory plot synopsis in English.  Read More >>

Il concerto perfetto

Il concerto perfetto

Author: Daniele Panteghini
ISBN: 9788898591183
Format: Paperback
$27.56

Puo esistere un uomo in grado di trasformare un concerto mediocre in un evento unico e inimitabile con la sua sola...  Read More >>

Wagner Androgyne

Wagner Androgyne

Author: Jean-Jacques Nattiez ,  Stewart Spencer
ISBN: 9780691634869
Format: Hardback
$235.00

That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and...  Read More >>

Janácek's Operas: A Documentary Account

Janácek's Operas: A Documentary Account

Author: John Tyrrell
ISBN: 9780691631134
Format: Hardback
$480.48

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Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought

Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought...

Author: Gloria Flaherty
ISBN: 9780691631011
Format: Hardback
$245.00

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