Author: John Denison Champlin
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Author: Champlin (jr.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: Edward Geoffrey Stanley
Publisher: Fonthill Media
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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In December 1820, at twenty-one years old, Edward Geoffrey Stanley, the future 14th earl of Derby and three-times prime minister, began an extensive tour of continental Europe. By the time of his return to England twenty months later, he had visited many of the foremost centres for art and culture in Europe, and mostly in Italy. In his travel diaries he recorded his intensive social life, his visits to historical sites, his viewings of art collections, his comments on architecture, his admiration of landscapes and his impressions of foreign societies. He was energetic, enthusiastic and discerning: the bridge of Augustus in Umbria gave him ‘a stupendous idea of Roman grandeur’; the charm of the towns crowning the Tuscan hills struck him with the same delight that he felt when gazing at one of Poussin’s paintings; the waterfall at Terni, which dropped 370 feet into an abyss of spray, was ‘awfully magnificent’; while the ceremonies of the Italian Catholic Church he judged to be a blend of mummery, superstition and bigotry. Sights and experiences like these influenced him for the rest of his life. This precious collection of diaries, found only recently and published here for the first time, reveal Edward Stanley to have been a young man of diligence, courage and decisiveness: a future leader with a conspicuous and burgeoning sense of political and social justice. It was these characteristics, seen in early development within these pages, that shaped the man and the extraordinary career to come.

Author: John Denison Champlin
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 720

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Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1058

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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Author: Karyl Lynn Zietz
Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Although books have been written about various opera houses throughout the world, no one work has covered more than a relatively small number of the larger, well known companies and houses, and none have made more than brief mention of the smaller houses. No book has comprehensively listed opera repertories. Little, in sum, has been written about any of the smaller companies and houses located in non-English-speaking countries. This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-over 300, from the well known to the smaller. Each entry includes a history of the opera house or company, the works (title and composer) and type of productions offered, company staff, world and country premieres, repertory, and practical information on the theater's address, nearby hotel accommodations and how to order tickets. Most entries conclude with a bibliography.

Author: John Towers
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: John Towers
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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