Author: Linda Sirkus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Singers in the Golden Age of Opera, 1880-1935
Author: Linda Sirkus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Opera for the People
Author: Katherine K. Preston
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199371660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199371660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald Jay Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231119585
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231119585
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 1049
Book Description
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Dictionary Catalog of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Author: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Bel Canto
Author: James Stark
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086143
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of bel canto.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802086143
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A history of vocal pedagogy from the beginning of the bel canto tradition of solo singing in the late 16th century and dealing extensively with such topics as the emergence of virtuoso singing, national singing styles, and the 'secrets' of bel canto.
A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Marion Louise Horton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A.L.A. Catalog, 1932-1936
Author: Marion Horton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
International Dictionary of Opera: L-Z
Author: C. Steven LaRue
Publisher: Detroit : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Publisher: Detroit : St. James Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
A Catalogue of Music and Books on Music
Author: Kenneth Mummery (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description