Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

Twelve original essays that explore the rich interplay of opera, ballet, and culture in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond and offer new insights into such important figures as Mozart and the castrato Farinelli. Opera and theatrical dance were among the most important, elaborate, and influential...

This collection of brief essays covers such performers as Björling, Callas, Domingo, Pavarotti, Tibbett, Terfel, and te Kanawa.Author: J. B. SteaneISBN-10: 1574670409ISBN-13: 9781574670400Publisher: AmadeusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.52h x 6.50w x 0.94d

Opera, Volume 1, presents a comprehensive exploration of the operatic art form. This volume offers insights into the historical, cultural, and artistic dimensions of opera, showcasing its evolution and significance in the world of music. Readers will appreciate the detailed analysis and rich historical...

Cavalleria Rusticana, a melodrama in one act, is a classic of Italian opera. This edition presents the libretto in English. Set in a Sicilian village on Easter morning, the opera unfolds a tragic tale of love, betrayal, and revenge. The story centers around Turiddu,...

Explore the rich tapestry of French theatrical history with "Calendrier Historique Des Théâtres De L'opéra, Et Des Comédies Françoise Et Italienne, Et Des Foires." This unique historical calendar provides a detailed record of opera, French comedy, Italian comedy, and fair theaters, offering invaluable insights...

Lakme is an opera in three acts, composed by Leo Delibes in 1890. The story is set in India during the British Raj and follows the tragic love story of the Hindu priestess, Lakme, and the British officer, Gerald. The opera is known for...

"Modern Drama and Opera: Reading Lists On the Works of Various Authors, Volume 1" offers a comprehensive guide for students and enthusiasts of dramatic and operatic literature. Compiled by Clara A. Mulliken Norton, Frank Keller Walter, Archibald Henderson, and Fanny Elsie Marquand, this volume...

Explore the world of 17th-century English opera with "Opera, En Anglois, Avec Notes Par P. Shaw, Volume 3." This unique collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the operatic scene of the time. Authored by Robert Boyle, this volume provides insights into the performance and...

Epiphanii Episcopi Constaintiae Opera V5: D. Petavii Animadversiones (1859) est opus quod continet scripta Epiphanii, Episcopi Constaintiae, qui vixit in saeculo quarto et quintodecimo. In hoc volumine, D. Petavius animadversiones suas addidit, quibus explicat et emendat textum Epiphanii. Epiphanii scripta de fide catholica, haeresibus,...

Liber Aristophanis Comici Quae Supersunt Opera V1: Undecim Fabulas Superstites Continens (1886) auctore Aristophane, continet undecim fabulas superstites. Aristophanes, poeta Graecus, notus est propter suum genus comediae, quod saepe ridiculum et satyricum est. In hoc libro, fabulae eius sunt plenae humoris et satis acerbae....

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan...

Dorothea Link examines singers' voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna's court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers' voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in...

"The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner" is an essential guide to the operatic works of the legendary German composer, written by the esteemed musicologist Albert Lavignac. This analytical work offers a deep dive into the complex world of Wagnerian opera, providing readers with both...

"The Grand Opera Singers Of To-day" offers a captivating glimpse into the world of opera during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry Charles Lahee profiles the leading operatic stars who graced the stage during recent years, providing insights into their lives, careers,...

What is the end of the story after a lifetime in gangs? Violence, addiction, imprisonment . . . we don't have to look hard to see the negative consequences of gang involvement. But what does it look like to spend a life--from adolescence to...

This is a vocal score for the comic romantic opera in four acts, "Martha, Or, The Fair At Richmond," composed by Friedrich von Flotow. The libretto is by W. Friedrich. This edition includes English translations by Henry Edward Krehbiel and Natalia Macfarren. "Martha" is...

An Italian opera about Alexander the Great's conquest of India, with a libretto by Pietro Metastasio and music composed by Antonio Sacchini.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know...

Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were...

Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 addresses a stark reality: Opera Studies has neglected its children. Opera scholarship has been complicit in othering children and childhoods, disregarding repertoire for, by, and about children as well as its creators. This volume tilts Opera Studies...

In 1868 Japan opened its borders to the outside world and began a rapid modernization process which included importing European musical instruments, compositional practices, and repertoire. The operas and prose of Richard Wagner trickled into Japan during this time and, as in other parts...

Con Mara Estuardo no slo nos encontramos con la historia, sino tambin con la leyenda. Mara es de esos personajes que podr despertar admiracin o respeto o incluso reprobacin, nunca indiferencia y siempre emocin.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 8875926654ISBN-13: 9788875926656Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 452Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.50lbsSize:...

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British...

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera...

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "long nineteenth century," giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian opera...

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scholars have dealt with the associated areas of dance and scenery, as well as newer disciplines such as studies of patronage, gender,...

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the...

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms...

"The Complete Opera Book" by Gustav Kobbe stands as a definitive and comprehensive guide to the world of opera, meticulously cataloging the stories, music, and history of the art form's most significant works. Designed to serve both the seasoned aficionado and the curious newcomer,...

Eugene Onegin is Tchaikovsky's most famous opera. It is a beloved masterpiece of Romantic music. This guide presents the libretto with a side-by-side new English translation, circumstances of composition, a history of the best singers for the roles with video clip links, trivia, musical...

""Boccaccio or The Prince of Palermo"" is a comic opera written by Franz von Suppe in 1880. The story revolves around the famous Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio and his encounters with the Prince of Palermo. The opera is divided into three acts and features...

Packed full of new archival evidence that reveals the interconnected world of music theatre during the 'Classical era', this interdisciplinary study investigates key locations, genres, music, and musicians. Austin Glatthorn explores the extent to which the Holy Roman Empire delineated and networked a cultural...

Vincenzo Bellini's physical beauty, boundless success, and untimely death at the age of thirty-three combined to give him instant mythical status. In John Rosselli's new account, the first in English in twenty-five years, of his life and music, a more accurate view of Bellini...

This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the...

Arthur Sullivan was Victorian Britain's most celebrated composer, whose music still reaches a wider audience than that of any of his contemporaries. Yet the comic operas on which Sullivan's reputation is chiefly based have been consistently belittled or ignored, while his serious works have...

Author: Uri ErmanISBN-10: 0197784046ISBN-13: 9780197784044Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2026Pages: 310Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

Author: Elisabeth Abbott,Arthur Livingston,Thomas G. BerginISBN-10: 1025833856ISBN-13: 9781025833859Publisher: Tradd Street PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2026Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's La favola d'Orfeo (1607) and Christoph Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic,...

The name of Pauline Viardot Garcia was well known during her lifetime, but after her death in 1910, she passed into obscurity. She was born in Paris in 1821, the youngest child of the Spanish tenor, Manuel Garcia; her sister was Maria Malibran, and...

Operafilm is a new word for an emerging, auteur-led gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which music, film, and performance are combined to sustain intellectually and aesthetically coherent metamodernist narratives. In this form of storytelling, every element, including score, image, and performance, is...

A detailed documentary history of opera in Portugal from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the inauguration of the still existing Teatro de S. Carlos in 1793. This 1989 study shows how the introduction of opera into the country at the beginning of...

Alexander H. Shapiro provides a fresh look at the influences on Wagner's Götterdämmerung, and critically re-evaluates the composer's intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters and diary entries. The book challenges conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of...

"Caruso's Method of Voice Production [The Scientific Culture of the Voice]" offers a comprehensive exploration into the vocal techniques and pedagogical theories associated with one of the most legendary tenors in history, Enrico Caruso. Authored by Victor Maurel, a celebrated operatic baritone and contemporary...

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art. This investigation begins in 1935, the hundredth anniversary of the composer's death and the year...

In terms of musical composition, all but the first five of his thirty-five years were astoundingly productive for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). A stream of glorious symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, operas and the sublime but unfinished Requiem poured from his pen. German philologist...

Haydn is enjoying renewed appreciation as one of the towering figures of Western music history. This lively collection builds upon this resurgence of interest, with chapters exploring the nature of Haydn's invention and the cultural forces that he both absorbed and helped to shape...

Investigation of unjustly neglected opera. Hans Pfitzner's musical legend' Palestrina is considered in the German-speaking countries to be one of the supreme masterpieces of music, and yet it is all but unknown elsewhere. The opera, first performed in 1917, tells the story of the...

What is it about opera that can bring unashamed tears to the eyes of adoring fans? In this book, first published in French in 1986 and now available in English, Michel Poizat explains in a charming way the fascination of the interaction between music...

Originally published in 1986, this book is a major study in English on Grétry and opéra-comique. Opéra-comique is the operatic genre that lies behind The Magic Flute and Fidelio. David Charlton's important study examines the genre in the period before the French Revolution, considering...

In 1847 Wagner read the Oresteian trilogy, the finest surviving work by Aeschylus. The impact on him of Aeschylus' work, at this crucial time in his development, changed Wagner's entire vision of his own role as an artist. As he wrote in his autobiography:...

Empress Marie Therese, second wife of Emperor Franz II, devoted much of her life to music. She played piano and sang, compiled a large music library and supported professional musicians and composers. This comprehensive survey of the Empress as musician and patron is based...