Opera books

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Said on Opera

Said on Opera

Author: Edward Said (c/o The Wylie Agency) ,  Wouter Capitain (Lecturer in Musicology)
ISBN: 9780231212014
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This book presents Edward W. Said’s insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as...  Read More >>

Irene Dalis Diva, Impresaria, Legend

Irene Dalis Diva, Impresaria, Legend

Author: Linda Riebel ,  Shawna Lucey
ISBN: 9780983305101
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Updated edition of the authorized biography of international opera star, based on hundreds of hours of interviews...  Read More >>

Said on Opera

Said on Opera

Author: Edward Said (c/o The Wylie Agency) ,  Wouter Capitain (Lecturer in Musicology)
ISBN: 9780231212007
Format: Hardback
$132.95

This book presents Edward W. Said’s insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as...  Read More >>

Theological Anthropology in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito: Sin, Grace, and Conversion

Theological Anthropology in Mozart’s La clemenza di...

Author: Steffen Lösel
ISBN: 9781032199160
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance, Interpretation

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance,...

Author: Ellen Rosand ,  Stefano La Via
ISBN: 9781032291925
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds...  Read More >>

Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality,...

Author: Vicky Angelaki
ISBN: 9781032344331
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal...  Read More >>

Staging Voice

Staging Voice

Author: Michal Grover-Friedlander
ISBN: 9781032034287
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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

Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and the Accademia degli Invaghiti

Orpheus in the Academy: Monteverdi's First Opera and...

Author: Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee, USA)
ISBN: 9781032061467
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first...  Read More >>

Wagner e il buddismo, insieme al suo plagio in Wagner e il nirvana

Wagner e il buddismo, insieme al suo plagio in Wagner...

Author: Urs App
ISBN: 9783906000343
Format: Paperback
$52.27

Urs App, storico di fama mondiale della scoperta occidentale del buddismo, racconta la storia dell'incontro creativo...  Read More >>

Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience

Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience

Author: Joseph Attard (Kings College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781501370366
Format: Paperback
$59.99

What is opera cinema -- The history of opera cinema -- What makes it opera cinema -- The Opera Virgins Project --...  Read More >>

Language and Music in Action: Harold S. Powers's Writings on Italian Opera

Language and Music in Action: Harold S. Powers's Writings...

Author: David Rosen
ISBN: 9781409436676
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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Not Good Enough?: Vocal Shame Among Finnish Classical Singers

Not Good Enough?: Vocal Shame Among Finnish Classical...

Author: Iris Seesj�rvi
ISBN: 9789529487714
Format: Paperback
$65.74

Vocal shame is the new prominent area of academic interest that should be on every singer's radar.Essential, informative,...  Read More >>

Gracchus: A Tragic Opera in Three Acts

Gracchus: A Tragic Opera in Three Acts

Author: David Hughes ,  Richard A Munkelt
ISBN: 9781990685910
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Gracchus is a grand opera that tells of an unforgettable human drama set to soaring music. The whole unfolds according...  Read More >>

The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography

Author: Sophia Lambton
ISBN: 9781739286323
Format: Hardback
$64.66

An exhaustive biography of the world's greatest soprano - Maria Callas - on the centenary of her birth.  Read More >>

Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

Author: Margaret Cormier
ISBN: 9780472056293
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes...  Read More >>

Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

Rape at the Opera: Staging Sexual Violence

Author: Margaret Cormier
ISBN: 9780472076291
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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

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

Author: David Charlton
ISBN: 9781009011754
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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

Staging 'Euridice': Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

Staging 'Euridice': Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late...

Author: Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ,  Francesca Fantappiè
ISBN: 9781009005715
Format: Paperback
$59.49

This is the first comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving complete 'opera',...  Read More >>

Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective

Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective...

Author: Joseph Cone
ISBN: 9781032184272
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Seeing Opera Anew offers a “stereo” perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human...  Read More >>

Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini

Author: Nancy November (University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9781009409803
Format: Hardback
$219.94

The many and varied domestic musical arrangements of opera that circulated in Vienna provide a unique window on...  Read More >>

Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective

Seeing Opera Anew: A Cultural and Biological Perspective...

Author: Joseph Cone
ISBN: 9781032184289
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Seeing Opera Anew offers a “stereo” perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human...  Read More >>

Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta

Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta

Author: Bruno Bower ,  Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg
ISBN: 9781032184258
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance...  Read More >>

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