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Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the Present

Mozart's Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation...

Author: Martin Nedbal (University of Kansas)
ISBN: 9781009257596
Format: Hardback
$219.94

This wide-ranging study explores how Czech and German nationalism influenced the reception of Mozart's operas in...  Read More >>

Beethoven: The String Quartets

Beethoven: The String Quartets

Author: David Vernon
ISBN: 9781739659929
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In his new book, David Vernon - author of Disturbing the Universe: Wagner's Musikdrama and Beauty and Sadness: Mahler's...  Read More >>

Shadow Catch

Shadow Catch

Author: Daphne Marlatt
ISBN: 9781772015225
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"Noh-influenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt...  Read More >>

Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community Engagement

Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community...

Author: Emily Dollman
ISBN: 9781032056456
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community Engagement investigates the ways in which the classical...  Read More >>

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
$356.40

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

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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 >>

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

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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 >>

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 >>

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

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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

This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt...  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: 9781503635647
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In...  Read More >>

A Poetics of Handel's Operas

A Poetics of Handel's Operas

Author: Nathan Link (is H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Music, is H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Music, Centre College)
ISBN: 9780197651346
Format: Hardback
$216.00

A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores the concurrence between the narratives of Handelian operas and how these stories...  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
$194.50

A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In...  Read More >>

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

La professionalit� 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 >>

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 >>

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