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  • Ghost of a Chance

    A Memoir

    de Peter Duchin, Charles Michener ...
    “The story of [Peter] Duchin’s life has an elegiac aura of glamour and tragedy that might have come directly from the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“This book brings back marvelous memories of a very special time.”—Frank SinatraCalled “a living compendium of a hundred years of social history” by The New York Times Book Review, Peter Duchin has lived through ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Toughest Show on Earth

    de Joseph Volpe, Charles Michener ...
    The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager.Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Puccini's Madama Butterfly - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

    de Burton D. Fisher ...
    A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Leer más

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  • Libretti de Trois Opéras de Berlioz

    de Hector Berlioz ...
    Ce dossier comprend: Béatrice et Bénédict, La Damnation de Faust, et Lélio ou le Retour à la vie, tous en français original. Selon Wikipédia: "Hector Berlioz (11 décembre 1803 - 8 mars 1869) était un compositeur romantique français, connu pour ses compositions Symphonie fantastique et Grande Messe des morts (Berlioz). Traité sur l'instrumentation Il a spécifié d'énormes forces orchestrales pour ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

    Edición de Scott L. Balthazar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Master Singers

    Advice from the Stage

    de Donald George, Lucy Mauro ...
    There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Great singers at the top of the performing profession achieve their place with much analysis and awareness of their technique, art, interpretation and stagecraft that goes far beyond academic study and develops over years of ... Leer más

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  • Leoncavallo

    Life and Works

    de Konrad Dryden ...
    Leoncavallo: Life and Works is the first fully documented biography of the beloved and popular composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919), whose credits include Pagliacci and the operatic works Chatterton, Der Roland von Berlin, Zazà, Maïa, Zingari, La bohème, and the incomplete trilogy Crepusculum. Author Konrad Dryden has amassed material from hundreds of unpublished letters and photographs, ... Leer más

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  • Le nozze di Figaro

    de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...
    Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart’s best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais’s play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first rank. Its combination of wit, acute psychological observation and sublime music has enthralled audiences ever since its premiere in Prague in 1786 ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

    A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary

    de David J. Smith, Rachelle Taylor ...
    Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips does not fit easily into an overarching, progressive view of music history in which developments ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain

    de Thomas McGeary ...
    The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues that the conventional way of applying Italian opera to contemporary political events and persons by means of ... Leer más

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  • Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks

    de Daniel H. Foster ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary paradigm to shape the music and the libretto of the Ring cycle. Foster describes how each of ... Leer más

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  • Grétry's Operas and the French Public

    From the Old Regime to the Restoration

    de R.J. Arnold ...
    Series series Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
    Why, in the dying days of the Napoleonic Empire, did half of Paris turn out for the funeral of a composer? The death of André Ernest Modeste Grétry in 1813 was one of the sensations of the age, setting off months of tear-stained commemorations, reminiscences and revivals of his work. To understand this singular event, this interdisciplinary study looks back to Grétry’s earliest encounters with the ... Leer más

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