Opera books

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The Fashioning of French Opera (1672-1791): Identity, Production, Networks

The Fashioning of French Opera (1672-1791): Identity,...

Author: Barbara Nestola ,  Benoit Dratwicki
ISBN: 9782503604787
Format: Paperback
$298.32

36 b/w illus, 23 col illus, 27 b/w tbls, 8 exemples musicaux  Read More >>

Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence

Weill, Blitzstein, and Bernstein: A Study of Influence...

Author: Professor Rebecca Schmid
ISBN: 9781648250606
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard...  Read More >>

Backstage with Pavarotti and Other Egos: Disasters on the High Cs

Backstage with Pavarotti and Other Egos: Disasters on...

Author: John Duffus
ISBN: 9781803694689
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Luciano Pavarotti was one of the best-loved international personalities of the 20th century. A singer who broke...  Read More >>

Addictions: Bears and Bitches

Addictions: Bears and Bitches

Author: Laurence Baillie Brown
ISBN: 9781805411390
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In witty, bitchy letters passing between London and San Diego, two gay men who are intimate friends discuss their...  Read More >>

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Caitlin Vincent
ISBN: 9780367553937
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography...  Read More >>

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Author: Magnus Tessing Schneider ,  Roberta Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032158334
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don...  Read More >>

D’Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company

D’Oyly Carte: The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company...

Author: Paul Seeley
ISBN: 9780367610579
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century...  Read More >>

Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions

Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension...

Author: Clemens Risi
ISBN: 9780367645052
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.  Read More >>

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect, Post-Tragedy, Emergency

Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage: Affect,...

Author: Charlotte Farrell
ISBN: 9781032076621
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book examines select Australian theatre productions by director, Barrie Kosky. This text contextualizes the...  Read More >>

The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

Author: Graham Sadler ,  Shirley Thompson
ISBN: 9781032078700
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The present volume, devoted solely to the composer’s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together...  Read More >>

Picture a day like this (text for music)

Picture a day like this (text for music)

Author: George Benjamin ,  Martin Crimp
ISBN: 9780571543069
Format: Paperback
$31.02

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La vie de Beaumarchais

La vie de Beaumarchais

Author: Pierre-Edouard Fournier Laplace
ISBN: 9791041815166
Format: Paperback
$50.16

""" and Beaumarchais disait, prenant pour devise un hémistiche du Mahomet de Voltaire: Ma vie est un combat, ""...  Read More >>

Queer Opera

Queer Opera

Author: Andrew Sutherland
ISBN: 9781666906073
Format: Hardback
$206.00

Queer Opera explores narratives and music of selected operas to argue that composers have turned to opera to underscore...  Read More >>

Performing Against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wagner and George R.R. Martin

Performing Against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness...

Author: Lukas Schepp
ISBN: 9789811915024
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy

The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the...

Author: Larry Wolff
ISBN: 9781503635647
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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La professionalità dell'insegnante di canto: Competenza, deontologia, tecnica e pratica didattica del vocal trainer

La professionalità dell'insegnante di canto: Competenza,...

Author: Graziano D'Urso
ISBN: 9781447880837
Format: Hardback
$78.12

Studio relativo alle nuove sfide didattico educative dell'insegnante di canto, l'aggiornamento delle competenze...  Read More >>

The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy

The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the...

Author: Larry Wolff
ISBN: 9781503634589
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Bach n'a Pas Ecrit d'Opera

Bach n'a Pas Ecrit d'Opera

Author: Gilles Cantagrel
ISBN: 9782251454443
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Bach n'a pas ecrit d'opera: c'est ce que regrettent les amateurs de ce genie absolu. Mais y a-t-il vraiment lieu...  Read More >>

The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera

The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera

Author: Matthew Aucoin
ISBN: 9781250858818
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A “meaty, absorbing, fretting, and ultimately mind-blowing” (The Bay Area Reporter) user’s guide to opera.  Read More >>

Sing Me Forgotten

Sing Me Forgotten

Author: Jessica S. Olson
ISBN: 9780008592530
Format: Paperback
$19.99

‘Lush and lavish, Sing Me Forgotten hit all the right notes’ Erin A. Craig, New York Times...  Read More >>

Donizetti et l'école italienne depuis Rossini

Donizetti et l'école italienne depuis Rossini

Author: P Scudo
ISBN: 9791041917815
Format: Paperback
$50.16

""" L'art musical et l'Italie ont fait, il y a trois mois, une perte douloureuse: Donizetti est mort à Bergame....  Read More >>

"""Sorry. I am what I am."" The Life and Letters of the South African Pianist and Opera Coach Gordon Jephtas (1943- 92)"

"""Sorry. I am what I am."" The Life and Letters of...

Author: Hilde Roos ,  F�roll-Jon Davids
ISBN: 9783906927589
Format: Paperback
$101.64

"Gordon Jephtas (1943-92) was born into an impoverished, coloured, single-parent family in South Africa. He began...  Read More >>

Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes

Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered...

Author: Professor Monica A. Hershberger
ISBN: 9781648250613
Format: Hardback
$290.40

The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices...  Read More >>

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