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French Vocal Literature introduces singers to the history and performance concerns of a vast body of French songs from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on songs for solo voice or small vocal ensemble with piano or organ accompaniment suitable for recital, concert, or church performance.

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Diagnosed with a lower limb disability at birth, Ronan Tynan had his legs amputated when he was 20 years old. What followed was a remarkable story of determination which saw him gain 18 gold medals and 14 world records at the Paralympics, a medical degree and an international singing career.

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Opera has fascinated and attracted audiences for more than four centuries. It has lasted for a simple reason: it's a great source of enjoyment.

Written by John Snelson, Commissioning Editor at The Royal Opera House, this book is a demonstration of how to listen to opera at its best, and understand how it works.

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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.

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Worth and Cartwright have compiled a comprehensive discography documenting this exceedingly long career. In a chapter devoted to `The Art of John McCormack and the Phonograph,' McCormack's vocal technique is examined, and his artistic development chronicled.

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Features essays that give insights on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for critical trends. This title explores works like Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Falstaff from a variety of angles.

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An exploration of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann". It investigates the political climate of the 1870's that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights, it considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a literary and theatrical tradition.

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Margaret Webster presided over many firsts in the American theater. She was the first woman to direct Shakespearean plays on Broadway, she was one of the founders of the American Repertory Theatre, she was active in the beginning of the Off-Broadway movement, and she wrote an assortment of articles, speeches, memoirs, and autobiographies.

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Never before in paperback: An intimate portrait of the private Callas.

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Revealed in this relentlessly candid yet sympathetic study is Nellie Melba the drama queen, the monstrous prima donna, the canny businesswoman, the generous and kindly friend, the unique star who refused to fade.

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The book offers deep-seated explanations for opera's enduring fascination in European elite culture and suggests some of the profound difficulties that have unsettled this fascination since the time of Wagner.

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Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche argues that the operas and writings of Wagner contradict the values that are fundamental to modernity. Analyzing Wagners works in contrast to the philosophical thought of Nietzsche, Brayton Polka examines how Wagner breaks with Nietzsche and their common influencer, Schopenhauer.

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Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche argues that the operas and writings of Wagner contradict the values that are fundamental to modernity. Analyzing Wagners works in contrast to the philosophical thought of Nietzsche, Brayton Polka examines how Wagner breaks with Nietzsche and their common influencer, Schopenhauer.

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One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated f

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Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works. In this collection of lively, penetrating essays, Petrobelli analyzes specific operas, mainly by Verdi, in terms of historical context, musi

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Here for the first time are in-depth profiles of 139 major opera companies from around the globe, representing 35 countries, from Argentina to Yugoslavia, and including little-known information on opera in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, and Turkey.

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Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced. Beginning with this observation, Gloria Flaherty tries to show how, from its very inception and through most

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This reference lists operas released as motion pictures. It covers theatrical feature films on 35mm film, educational films on 16mm film and videorecordings, including the VHS videotape format and optical video laser disc. Citations to reviews are included from over 22 sources.