Author: Peter Schofield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Opera
Author: Peter Schofield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Opera (II).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Enjoyment of Opera
Author: Alan Blyth
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780193210509
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780193210509
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Joy of Opera
Author: Nigel Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233000053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
2000 publication by Andre Deutsch and is distributed by Trafalgar Square. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780233000053
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
2000 publication by Andre Deutsch and is distributed by Trafalgar Square. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Black Opera
Author: Mary Gentle
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575083516
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. In this world of miracles, Conrad is an atheist - he sees the same phenomena, but sees no need to attribute them to a Deity ... until his first really successful opera gets the opera-house struck by the lightning bolt of God's disapproval ... ... And Conrad comes to the attention of the Prince's Men, a powerful secret society, who are trying to use the magic of music to their own ends - in this case, an apocalyptic blood sacrifice. Life is about to get interesting for Conrad.
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575083516
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Conrad Scalese is a writer of librettos for operas in a world where music has immense power. In the Church, the sung mass can bring about actual miracles like healing the sick. Opera is musicodrama, the highest form of music combined with human emotion, and the results of the passion it engenders can be nothing short of magical. In this world of miracles, Conrad is an atheist - he sees the same phenomena, but sees no need to attribute them to a Deity ... until his first really successful opera gets the opera-house struck by the lightning bolt of God's disapproval ... ... And Conrad comes to the attention of the Prince's Men, a powerful secret society, who are trying to use the magic of music to their own ends - in this case, an apocalyptic blood sacrifice. Life is about to get interesting for Conrad.
The Enjoyment of Theatre
Author: Kenneth M. Cameron
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Theatre'sbalanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre. This book covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. Thisseventh editionfeatures major revisions and welcomes two highly respected collaborators from the University of South Carolina to the proven author team of Cameron and Gillespie. Together, they make theatre come alive for all readers by showing them how theatre is, and will continue to be, relevant to their everyday lives.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Enjoyment of Theatre'sbalanced coverage of performance and history provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to theatre. This book covers the full span of theatre's 2,500-year history as well as performance/production topics such as playwriting, acting, directing, and the theatre industry. Thisseventh editionfeatures major revisions and welcomes two highly respected collaborators from the University of South Carolina to the proven author team of Cameron and Gillespie. Together, they make theatre come alive for all readers by showing them how theatre is, and will continue to be, relevant to their everyday lives.
The Basis of Musical Pleasure
Author: Albert Gehring
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emotions in music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emotions in music
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Opera Fanatic
Author: Claudio E. Benzecry
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043428
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226043428
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.
On Opera
Author: Bernard Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142285
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. --From publisher's description.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300142285
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This volume brings together these widely scattered and largely unobtainable pieces, including two that have not been previously published. It covers an engaging range of topics from Mozart to Wagner, including essays on specific operas by those composers as well as Verdi, Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Janacek, and Tippett. --From publisher's description.
Deviant Opera
Author: Axel Englund
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520974700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520974700
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel’s Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating her insubordinate furies into submission with a cane, suspending a captive Rinaldo in chains from the ceiling of her dungeon. Mozart’s peasant girl Zerlina, meanwhile, is tying up and blindfolding her fiancé to seduce him out of his jealousy of Don Giovanni. And how about Wagner’s wizard, Klingsor, ensnaring his choir of flower maidens in elaborate Japanese rope bondage? Opera, it would appear, has developed a taste for sadomasochism. For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas—from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini, and beyond—in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understand this phenomenon, approaching the contemporary visual code of perversion as a lens through which opera focuses and scrutinizes its own configurations of sex, gender, power, and violence. The emerging image is that of an art form that habitually plays with an eroticization of cruelty and humiliation, inviting its devotees to take sensual pleasure in the suffering of others. Ultimately, Deviant Opera argues that this species of opera fantasizes about breaking the boundaries of its own role-playing, and pushing its erotic power exchanges from the enacted to the actual.