The Victrola Book of the Opera
Author | : Samuel Holland Rous |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel Holland Rous |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780500278734 |
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
Author | : George Whitney Martin |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781574671681 |
Provides synopses of forty-seven operas, a history of the opera, and a glossary of operatic terms.
Author | : Fred Plotkin |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1401306004 |
Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you. Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover--a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook to learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces the reader (whatever his or her level of musical knowledge) to all the elements that make up opera, including: A brief, entertaining history of opera; An explanation of key operatic concepts, from vocal types to musical conventions; Hints on the best way to approach the first opera you attend and how to best understand what is happening both offstage and on; Lists of recommended books and recordings, and the most complete traveler's guide to opera houses around the world. The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of eleven key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca through works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedentedly detailed and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.
Author | : Tess Weaver |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618096350 |
When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Arranged chronologically with an index of operas and a separate index of composers, librettists and literary sources.
Author | : Naomi Andre |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252050614 |
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemmings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
Author | : Nancy Yunhwa Rao |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2017-01-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0252099001 |
The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre “World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.
Author | : Samuel Holland Rous |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781017655803 |
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Author | : Mary Gentle |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : 9780575083516 |
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.