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The Political in Rimsky-Korsakov's Operas

The Political in Rimsky-Korsakov's Operas

Author: John Nelson
ISBN: 9781527577732
Format: Hardback
$263.87

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, opposition to the tsarist autocracy grew in Russia. To counter this, Tsar...  Read More >>

The Opera World: Discover The Funny Opera

The Opera World: Discover The Funny Opera

Author: Edith Gunkel
ISBN: 9798406409442
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Opera is a vital piece of the Western old-style music custom. Initially comprehended as a sung piece, rather than...  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: 9780367515836
Format: Paperback
$50.99

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

The Power of Why 29 Musicians Climbed to Superstar

The Power of Why 29 Musicians Climbed to Superstar

Author: Glory St Germain
ISBN: 9781927641972
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Rejected, Canceled, Giving Up, and Personal Struggles - every day, musicians from around the world begin their journey...  Read More >>

Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias

Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias

Author: Ginger Dellenbaugh (The New School, USA)
ISBN: 9781501379024
Format: Paperback
$19.99

More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, “La Divina Assoluta,” remains unsurpassed. Much...  Read More >>

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and Entertainment before the Revolution

Popular Opera in Eighteenth-Century France: Music and...

Author: David Charlton
ISBN: 9781316515846
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings....  Read More >>

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

Author: Colleen Renihan (Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada) ,  Roberta Marvin (University of Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9781032236889
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary dialogue in opera studies...  Read More >>

Staging Voice

Staging Voice

Author: Michal Grover-Friedlander
ISBN: 9781032034270
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be...  Read More >>

Performing Arts in Changing Societies: Opera, Dance, and Theatre in European and Nordic Countries around 1800

Performing Arts in Changing Societies: Opera, Dance,...

Author: Randi Margrete Selvik ,  Svein Gladsø
ISBN: 9781032236063
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Performing Arts in Changing Societies is a detailed exploration of genre development within the fields of dance,...  Read More >>

Operatic Pasticcios in Eighteenth–Century Europe – Contexts, Materials, and Aesthetics

Operatic Pasticcios in Eighteenth–Century Europe – Contexts,...

Author: Berthold Over ,  Gesa Zur Nieden
ISBN: 9783837648850
Format: Paperback
$124.95

"Known as ""pasticcios,"" eighteenth-century operas that employed the substitution or compilation of arias fitting...  Read More >>

Un giorno di regno: Melodramma giocoso in Two Acts by Felice Romani

Un giorno di regno: Melodramma giocoso in Two Acts by...

Author: Giuseppe Verdi ,  Francesco Izzo
ISBN: 9780226388786
Format: Undefined
$777.00

Un giorno di regno, which premiered at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in September 1840, is Verdi's second opera and...  Read More >>

Ernani: A tragic opera in four acts

Ernani: A tragic opera in four acts

Author: Giuseppe Verdi
ISBN: 9783348070171
Format: Paperback
$64.43

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"Verdis ""Nabucco"" und das Alte Testament"

"Verdis ""Nabucco"" und das Alte Testament"

Author: Matthias Augustin
ISBN: 9783631860052
Format: Paperback
$46.06

Verdi hat mit seiner Oper �Nabucco� 1842 den Durchbruch zum Welterfolg geschaffen. Ist sie als musikalische und...  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: 9780367610494
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century...  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: 9780367243203
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

The Divine Claudia: The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio

The Divine Claudia: The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio...

Author: Dan H Marek
ISBN: 9781662915529
Format: Hardback
$133.26

"""Muzio was a case apart: you cannot classify her, for in the end you have been so emotionally destroyed by her...  Read More >>

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville

Author: Hilary Poriss (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, Northeastern University)
ISBN: 9780190299637
Format: Hardback
$233.00

This book surveys the myriad and creative changes that have affected The Barber of Seville since its premiere, exploring...  Read More >>

Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

Author: Kristi Brown-Montesano
ISBN: 9780520385795
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The Threepenny Opera: Making of: Barrie Kosky Stages Brecht/Weill at the Berliner Ensemble

The Threepenny Opera: Making of: Barrie Kosky Stages...

Author: Marion Brasch ,  Juri Sternburg
ISBN: 9783959054669
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Documenting a new Threepenny Opera held at the site of its 1928 debut This book is published for a new production...  Read More >>

Apostolo Zeno Teil 2

Apostolo Zeno Teil 2

Author: Dr. Adriana De Feo ,  ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Noe
ISBN: 9783205213550
Format: Hardback
$186.27

Apostolo Zeno - kritische Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke  Read More >>

Wotan's Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence

Wotan's Daughter: The Life of Marjorie Lawrence

Author: Richard Davis
ISBN: 9781743058466
Format: Paperback
$39.95

This title recounts the turbulent life and career of Marjorie Lawrence, one of Australia's most renowned opera stars....  Read More >>

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