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  • Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

    de Pamela Karantonis, Francesca Placanica, Pieter Verstraete ...
    Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody the principles of postmodern thinking in her work, through vocality. She re-defined the limits of composition and challenged ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures

    Edición de Pamela Karantonis, Dylan Robinson ...
    Series series Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
    The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing the changing historical depictions of Indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Real Traviata

    The Song of Marie Duplessis

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Situating Opera

    Period, Genre, Reception

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Handel's Bestiary

    In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas

    de Donna Leon ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author delivers "a real tour de force" celebrating the fauna in Handel's operas—with original illustrations by Michael Sowa ( News—Austria).When acclaimed novelist Donna Leon is not conjuring up tales of crime and corruption in Venice—or appreciating its delicious cuisine—she revels in music. And for Leon, that usually means the work of her favorite composer, George ... 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

    $43.99 USD

  • The Inner Voice

    The Making of a Singer

    de Renée Fleming ...
    The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear on performances that have captivated audiences in opera houses and recital halls throughout the world. In The ... Leer más

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  • Cinderella and Company

    Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli

    de Manuela Hoelterhoff ...
    A wickedly funny look at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career.In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an ... Leer más

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  • Finding an Ending

    Reflections on Wagner's Ring

    de Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht ...
    Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the ... Leer más

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  • Verdi

    de John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Leer más

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  • Bizet's Carmen

    A Short Guide to a Great Opera

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Opera As Drama

    de Joseph Kerman ...
    Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera. ... Leer más

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