|    Login    |    Register

Filter Results

  • Large print only
  • Audiobooks only

Showing 49-72 of 150

StartPrev1234567NextEnd


(Paperback)

By: Andr Lefevere

ISBN: 9780826403469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Peter Morgan Barnes

ISBN: 9781526165183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
See more...

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising it among many artforms which created new works from pre-existing parts. Its history is interwoven with societys transition from a predominantly oral to literate culture and evolutions in conceptualising the self.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Ewans

ISBN: 9781474239080
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Michael Ewans

ISBN: 9781474239073
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: William Ashbrook

ISBN: 9780691027128
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, "Turandot" was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that despite the modern climate in which the work was written, it was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera.


(Hardback)

By: Arthur Groos

ISBN: 9780691632131
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Beth Elliott

ISBN: 9781543926231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: BookBaby
See more...


(Paperback)

By: John Culshaw

ISBN: 9781845951948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 18th October 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...

It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it was made and the people who made it, written by the man who as the recording producer was in charge of the whole project.

Conducted by the great Georg Solti, Deccas recording has been voted the best recording ever made.


(Hardback)

By: Marianne McDonald

ISBN: 9780313315671
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through these ancient narratives.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Ann Smart

ISBN: 9780691058139
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. This work explores the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. It combines readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within the observed historical contexts.


(Hardback)

By: William Ferrara

ISBN: 9780810888425
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: William Ferrara

ISBN: 9780810888449
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1977
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Paperback)

By: Charles Osborne

ISBN: 9780306802003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1983
Publisher: Hachette Books
See more...

While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La Boh


(Paperback)

By: Charles Osborne

ISBN: 9780306805226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Hachette Books
See more...

"Wagner's operas can be counted among the most important works of art of the nineteenth century. But Wagner was a composer around whom violent artistic, political, and literary controversies raged duri"


(Hardback)

By: Mary Hunter

ISBN: 9780691058122
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...

Offers a view of opera buffa in the theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. This book attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide 'sheer' pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. It shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Glanville

ISBN: 9780007118427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
See more...

From football hooligan to opera singer, from the Cockney Reds to Catullus, from a hectic household to tranquility of spirit, Mark Glanville has travelled many paths, been many people -- this is his story.


(Paperback)

By: J. Merrill Knapp

ISBN: 9780306802515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1985
Publisher: Hachette Books
See more...

"Among the many introductions to opera, this is perhaps the best. J. Merrill Knapp, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, divides his subject into two parts: In the first, he discusses the struct"


(Hardback)

By: Mary Du Mont

ISBN: 9780313304132
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This reference guide provides access to almost 1,000 books, book chapters, articles, and dissertations about the three Mozart-Da Ponte operas, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte.


(Paperback)

By: Martin Constantine

ISBN: 9781350006454
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...


(Hardback)

Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1985
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

This second volume of The Paris Opera offers descriptions of balletic and lyrical compositions and biographical sketches of famous vocalists, dancers, choreographers, composers, and librettists. Contents of scenarios and librettos are reported scene by scene or act by act.


(Paperback)

By: Mitchell Cohen

ISBN: 9780691211510
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...


(Hardback)

By: Vincent Giroud

ISBN: 9781442260832
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Giroud and Kaye tell the full story of The Tales of Hoffman for the first time. After discussing the work's influences and history, the book details sources for the opera, including the complete Barbier and Carr play. The annotated libretto is published in full, with the variants, and essays explain the enduring evolution of the opera.


(Paperback)

By: Vincent Giroud

ISBN: 9781442260849
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...

Giroud and Kaye tell the full story of The Tales of Hoffman for the first time. After discussing the work's influences and history, the book details sources for the opera, including the complete Barbier and Carr play. The annotated libretto is published in full, with the variants, and essays explain the enduring evolution of the opera.

StartPrev1234567NextEnd