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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “cormac newark”
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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon

    Edited by Cormac Newark, William Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too — this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

    by Cormac Newark ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la ... Read more

    $109.89 USD

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    by Phil G. Goulding ...
    In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's ... Read more

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  • The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert ...
    Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas.From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • The Real Traviata

    The Song of Marie Duplessis

    by René Weis ...
    The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Bizet's Carmen

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    by Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    The Paris audience in 1875 was shocked by the sexually explicit realism of Bizet's exotic operatic masterpiece, its 'verismo' depiction of low life and brutal passion. But since the disastrous première – a sensational failure which hastened Bizet's premature death – it has been the greatest operatic success. It led to a film opera, a jazz opera, a rock ballet and a Broadway musical. Equally, it ... Read more

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  • Rossini's The Barber of Seville

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    by Michael Steen ...
    Series series Great Operas
    The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini's famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Bizet's Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being among the greatest of comic operas, comparable to those of Mozart. Even Beethoven was enthusiastic.Figaro, Seville's barber, is confident of a good pay-off for facilitating the elopement of Rosina with ... Read more

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  • Situating Opera

    Period, Genre, Reception

    by Herbert Lindenberger ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Performing Opera

    A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors

    by mr Michael Ewans ...
    Series series Performance Books
    In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form.Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty ... Read more

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  • Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart

    A Guide for Teachers and Singers

    by William Ferrara ...
    In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Mozart: A Guide for Teachers and Singers, opera director William Ferrara offers the perfect resource for the dramatic preparation of opera scenes for directors and student performers. Topics include study and research, rehearsal planning, blocking, characterization, and costuming for four of Mozart’s most popular operas. He surveys basic concepts of opera ... Read more

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  • Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton

    by Carmen Trammell Skaggs ...
    In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera -- both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers -- including Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton -- captured the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Verdi and Puccini Heroines

    Dramatic Characterization in Great Soprano Roles

    by Geoffrey Edwards, Ryan Edwards ...
    New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers, singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly interpretation and gain a richer understanding of these compelling female characters. Artistically limited by the bel canto musical tradition popular ... Read more

    $55.99 USD