100 Great Operas and Their Stories

100 Great Operas and Their Stories PDF Author: Henry W. Simon
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Languages : en
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100 Great Operas and Their Stories

100 Great Operas and Their Stories PDF Author: Henry W. Simon
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More Stories of Famous Operas

More Stories of Famous Operas PDF Author: Ernest Newman
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307830829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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This book contains the definitive treatment of the stories, texts, and music of Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, The Barber of Bagdad, Thaïs, Eugen Onegin, Prince Igor, The Golden Cockerel, Elektra, Orfeo ed Euridice, Lakmé, Les Huguenots, Così fan tutte, The Seraglio, Les Troyens, Don Pasquale, La Juive, Manon, Falstaff, Louise, Pelléas and Mélisande, The Bartered Bride, Die Fledermaus, Romeo and Juliet, Der Rosenkavalier, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, Wozzeck, L’Heure Espagnole, and Boris Godounov. The foremost authority on opera presented in the comprehensive volume all that the opera-goer, radio listener, music-lover, and confirmed operamane will wish to know about them. It is unique as both guide and armchair companion. Ernest Newman’s gigantic grasp of his subject is clear at every turn, as are his sheer writing ability and wit. He larded his treatment of the operas with biographical and historical materials acquired in a long lifetime of study and writing. This is the first volume of the trilogy of books (the other two being The Wagner Operas and Seventeen Famous Operas) with which Ernest Newman wished to replace his much earlier book, Stories of the Great Operas.

Sing Me a Story

Sing Me a Story PDF Author: Jane Rosenberg
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500278734
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.

A History of Opera

A History of Opera PDF Author: Carolyn Abbate
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089533
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.

The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera

The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9781901223415
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The author's rewriting of opera stories from seven different composers combined with illustrations and a select discography, introduces to children some of the great operatic themes of the last 200 years.

Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas

Stories from the Great Metropolitan Operas PDF Author: Helen Dike
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494056629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

At the Opera

At the Opera PDF Author: Ann Fiery
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811827744
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A tribute to thirty renowned operas shares the plots and theatrical backgrounds of each, in a volume that covers such productions as Figaro and Turandot.

Richard Strauss's Salome

Richard Strauss's Salome PDF Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 0977145514
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's SALOME, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English side-by side, and over 25 music highlight examples.

Opera, Or, The Undoing of Women

Opera, Or, The Undoing of Women PDF Author: Catherine Clement
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816635269
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the "sacrilegious" pioneering work.

Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera PDF Author: Peter Lovrick
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844450
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.