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  • Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy by Johnson, Eugene J.
    Eugene J. Johnson

    Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

    In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters built...
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  • The Tao of Voice: A New East-West Approach to Transforming the Singing and Speaking Voice by Cheng, Stephen Chun-Tao
    Stephen Chun-Tao Cheng

    The Tao of Voice: A New East-West Approach to Transforming the Singing and Speaking Voice

    Stephen Cheng's innovative book is the first to combine the best of Western vocal technique and modern psychophysical exercises with ancient Chinese philosophy and breathing practices. His simple but powerful vocal method is widely known for bringing about dramatic improvement in the performance of...
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  • Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing by Hines, Jerome
    Jerome Hines

    Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing

    Jerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia Albanese, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Marilyn Horne, Sherrill Milnes, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano...
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  • Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series) by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)

    Next to Verdi's A da, Giacomo Puccini's La Boh me is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of A da, La Boh me, Carmen, and Don Giovanni -- the four operas most often performed -- constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule...
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  • The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna by Baranello, Micaela
    Micaela Baranello

    The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna

    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Leh疵's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during...
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  • Il Trittico in Full Score: Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Il Trittico in Full Score: Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi

    Considered the greatest Italian opera composer since Verdi, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) created many of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca, Manon Lescaut, and Turandot. His well-known gifts for lush melody and rapturous lyricism, along with his strong...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Berry, Mark
    Mark Berry

    The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen

    The Companion is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for those both familiar and unfamiliar with Wagner's Ring. It opens with a concise introduction to both the composer and the Ring, introducing Wagner as a cultural figure, and giving a comprehensive overview of the work. Subsequent...
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  • Three Mozart Libretti: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte, Complete in Italian and English by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Three Mozart Libretti: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così Fan Tutte, Complete in Italian and English

    Mozart composed three of his greatest operas in collaboration with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The librettos of these brilliant works are presented here in a format opera enthusiasts will love: excellent line-for-line English translations on pages facing the Italian text. The translators have...
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  • Puccini - Il Trittico: Opera Vocal Score Series by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini - Il Trittico: Opera Vocal Score Series

    (Opera). This famous trilogy of Puccini one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, now appears in one complete opera vocal score.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0634053078ISBN-13: 9780634053078Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2002Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.90w x 1.00d
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  • Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China by Greene, Maggie
    Maggie Greene

    Resisting Spirits: Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China

    Resisting Spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers' experiments with ghosts and ghost plays. Maggie Greene combines rare manuscript materials-such as theatre troupes' annotated...
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  • The Definitive Diva: The Life and Career of Maria Callas by Digaetani, John Louis
    John Louis Digaetani

    The Definitive Diva: The Life and Career of Maria Callas

    Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage, and her fame extended to the public consciousness of many parts of the world. Even after her mysterious death in 1977, her singing...
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  • Mozart Opera Arias: Soprano by Amadeus Mozart, Wolfgang
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Opera Arias: Soprano

    (Vocal Collection). An essential new edition for every singer and voice studio This is the most comprehensive multi-volume collection of Mozart opera arias ever published, with 31 to 41 arias per volume. Contents: ASCANIO IN ALBA: Si, ma d'un altro amore * LA CLEMENZA...
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  • The Barber of Seville in Full Score by Rossini, Gioacchino
    Gioacchino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville in Full Score

    Il Barbiere di Siviglia is one of the very greatest of all comic operas. Verdi wrote of it: For the abundance of true musical ideas, for its comic verve and the accuracy of its declamation, it is the most beautiful opera buffa there is....
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  • Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias by Dellenbaugh, Ginger
    Ginger Dellenbaugh

    Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias

    More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her love affairs and tantrums....
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  • The Threepenny Opera: Making of: Barrie Kosky Stages Brecht/Weill at the Berliner Ensemble by Brasch, Marion
    Marion Brasch

    The Threepenny Opera: Making of: Barrie Kosky Stages Brecht/Weill at the Berliner Ensemble

    Documenting a new Threepenny Opera held at the site of its 1928 debutThis book is published for a new production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's musical drama The Threepenny Opera directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Adam Benzwi at the Berliner Ensemble,...
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  • The Musical World of Marie-Antoinette: Opera and Ballet in 18th Century Paris and Versailles by James, Barrington
    Barrington James

    The Musical World of Marie-Antoinette: Opera and Ballet in 18th Century Paris and Versailles

    For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater. Spectacles at the opera, once considered fit for a king, had become "hell for the ears," wrote playwright Carlos Goldoni. Then, in 1774, with the crowning of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Paris became...
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  • The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia by Clark, Caryl
    Caryl Clark

    The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia

    For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunner or point of comparison. And yet, unlike many other canonic composers, his music has remained a fixture in the...
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  • Music Theory for Musical Theatre by Bell, John
    John Bell

    Music Theory for Musical Theatre

    Music Theory for Musical Theatre is a textbook designed to demystify music theory and analysis to make it more accessible to the musical theatre student. It aims to equip the student with a basic skill set that he or she can directly apply to...
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  • The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception by Sadler, Graham
    Graham Sadler

    The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

    In recent years, interest in Rameau's operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world's major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD...
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  • Wagner's Ring and the Germanic Tradition by Cleary, Collin
    Collin Cleary

    Wagner's Ring and the Germanic Tradition

    In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wagner was a serious student of the myths and sagas of Northern Europe, and the Ring is surprisingly faithful to them. Wagner retells...
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  • La Sonnambula: Critical Edition Vocal Score by Bellini, Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Bellini

    La Sonnambula: Critical Edition Vocal Score

    Excerpt from La Sonnambula: Melodramma in Due Atti Posto in Musica Piazza d'un Villaggio. Da un lato un' Osteria; dall' altro un molino, in fondo Colline praticabili. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at...
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  • The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Cohen, Mitchell
    Mitchell Cohen

    The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart

    A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political...
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  • Madama Butterfly in Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Madama Butterfly in Full Score

    When Puccini was inspired to write Madama Butterfly, he was at the peak of his fame, idolized as the composer of three great operatic successes, Manon Lescaut, La Boh me, and Tosca. His inspiration was a London production of David Belasco's American play Madam...
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  • Knowing Britten by Bedford, Steuart
    Steuart Bedford

    Knowing Britten

    Knowing Britten is a vivid and insightful account of Steuart Bedford's long association with both Britten the man and his music - 2021 Book of the Year -Presto Music The conductor and pianist Steuart Bedford (1939-2021) could not remember a time when he did...
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  • Gioachino Rossini's the Barber of Seville by Poriss, Hilary
    Hilary Poriss

    Gioachino Rossini's the Barber of Seville

    Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville surveys the opera's fascinating performance history, mapping out the myriad changes that have affected the work since its premiere, exploring many of the personalities responsible for those alterations, and taking into account the range of reactions that these...
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  • The Magic Flute in Full Score by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute in Full Score

    Created at the peak of the Enlightenment, Mozart's divine and enduring milestone of opera is both a lighthearted fairy tale and an epic story of the struggle between good and evil. The Magic Flute met instant acclaim at its 1791 premiere, and it remains...
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  • Tristan Und Isolde in Full Score by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Tristan Und Isolde in Full Score

    Among musicologists and serious lovers of music, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is generally considered the high point of orchestration in the musical tradition of nineteenth-century Europe. It shows in most successful form Wagner's unsurpassed gift for using the instruments of the orchestra, and generations...
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  • Grove Book of Operas by Sadie, Stanley
    Stanley Sadie

    Grove Book of Operas

    First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, The Grove Book of Operas brings together synopses and descriptions of over 250 leading operas, complemented by more than one hundred illustrations and halftones. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading...
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  • Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music by Bribitzer-Stull, Matthew
    Matthew Bribitzer-Stull

    Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music

    The musical leitmotif, having reached a point of particular forcefulness in the music of Richard Wagner, has remained a popular compositional device up to the present day. In this book, Matthew Bribitzer-Stull explores the background and development of the leitmotif, from Wagner to the...
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  • Turandot: Vocal Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Turandot: Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Cloth bound. English and Italian text.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0634072684ISBN-13: 9780634072680Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2004Pages: 384Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.90lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.10w x 1.20d
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  • The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    The Ring of the Nibelung

    Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate...
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  • Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera by Parr, Sean M.
    Sean M. Parr

    Vocal Virtuosity: The Origins of the Coloratura Soprano in Nineteenth-Century Opera

    Nothing strikes the ear quite like a soprano singing in the sonic stratosphere. Whether thrilling, chilling, or repellent to the listener, the reaction to cascades of coloratura with climaxing high notes is strong. Coloratura-agile, rapid-fire singing-was originally essential for all singers, but its function...
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  • Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas by Brown-Montesano, Kristi
    Kristi Brown-Montesano

    Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas

    Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni's story the only one--or even the most interesting one--in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it's Mozart's men who have mattered most. Too often, the female...
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  • Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective by Nicassio, Susan VanDiver
    Susan VanDiver Nicassio

    Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective

    A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it...
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  • Opera Anecdotes by Mordden, Ethan
    Ethan Mordden

    Opera Anecdotes

    From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and...
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  • Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera by Plotkin, Fred
    Fred Plotkin

    Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

    Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for...
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  • The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary by Breslin, Herbert H.
    Herbert Breslin

    The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary

    Now in paperback, the scandalous international sensation: brash, candid, and utterly hilarious, Luciano Pavarotti's longtime manager tells all.The name "Luciano Pavarotti" is as central to the world of opera as high C's and dueling sopranos. Pavarotti has had, quite inarguably, the most successful career...
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  • Giulio Cesare in Full Score by Handel, George Frideric
    George Frideric Handel

    Giulio Cesare in Full Score

    Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt), to give the opera its rarely used full name, was composed by Handel in 1723-24 and first performed at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, in 1724. It remains one of the most popular of Handel's Italian-language...
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  • Otello in Full Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello in Full Score

    "Perhaps the most remarkable feature of 'Otello' is not its great set pieces, wonderful as these are, but the fluid melodic and dramatic recitative that links them and binds the whole together. Many composers have dreamed of such a thing -- a flexible vocal...
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  • Tannhäuser in Full Score by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Tannh舫ser in Full Score

    Tannh舫ser is one of Wagner's richest and most elaborate musical achievements. Here the composer's inexhaustible genius for composition merges with brilliant orchestration to achieve a masterpiece of melodic invention. Since the opera's premiere at Dresden in 1845, generation of listeners have delighted in such...
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  • Götterdämmerung in Full Score by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Gterd舂merung in Full Score

    Melding literary, philosophical, and political -- as well as musical -- influences in his works, Richard Wagner (1813-83) brought the expressive power of German romantic opera to new heights -- indeed, his music was its crowning glory. George Bernard Shaw, a critic not given...
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  • Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas by Offenbach, Jacques
    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

    Jacques Offenbach (1819-80) ranks among the greatest composers of lighthearted operettas, and his famous songs continue to charm millions who know neither their names nor their composer. This volume features the sheet music for 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. All are reproduced from...
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  • The Ring of the Nibelung by Armour, Margaret
    Margaret Armour

    The Ring of the Nibelung

    "Andrew Porter's utterly natural, often poetic, faithfully rendered English text should be a revelation...The immediacy of instant comprehension gives the entire drama an added dimension."-The New York Times Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure,...
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  • Twelve-Tone Music in America by Straus, Joseph N.
    Joseph N. Straus

    Twelve-Tone Music in America

    Most histories of American music have ignored the presence of twelve-tone music before and during the Second World War, and virtually all have ignored its presence after 1970, even though so many major composers continued (and continue) to compose serially. This book provides a...
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  • Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea by Boss, Jack
    Jack Boss

    Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music: Symmetry and the Musical Idea

    Jack Boss takes a unique approach to analyzing Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music, adapting the composer's notion of a 'musical idea' - problem, elaboration, solution - as a framework and focusing on the large-scale coherence of the whole piece. The book begins by defining 'musical...
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  • THE COLOMBIAN ART SONG Jaime Leon: Analysis and compilation of his vocal works. Vol.1 by Caicedo, Patricia
    Patricia Caicedo

    THE COLOMBIAN ART SONG Jaime Leon: Analysis and compilation of his vocal works. Vol.1

    In this beautifully edited book, you find 17 art songs for voice and piano by the Colombian composer Jaime Le?n (1921-2015). The book has an introductory study that contextualizes the composer and the poets. It also provides a diction guide, translation of the poems...
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  • Playing by Ear: Reflections on Sound and Music by Brook, Peter
    Peter Brook

    Playing by Ear: Reflections on Sound and Music

    In this collection of essays, legendary theatre director Peter Brook reflects on the role of music in theatre and performance and revisits some of the best-known productions from his long and distinguished career, including Titus Andronicus, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, and The Prisoner....
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  • La Nilsson: My Life in Opera by Nilsson, Birgit
    Birgit Nilsson

    La Nilsson: My Life in Opera

    A charming and candid memoir by one of the great voices of the past centuryFirst published to wide acclaim in Sweden (1995) and Germany (1997), the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) is finally available in an English translation (itself first published by...
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  • The History of Opera for Beginners by David, Ron
    Ron David

    The History of Opera for Beginners

    The History of Opera For Beginners is a humorous, little book which starts with the radical assumption that Opera is just plain old music, rather than the highbrow, inaccessible music that everyone assumes it to be. The reader will learn the difference between Italian...
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  • Opera as Hypermedium: Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception by Havelková, Tereza
    Tereza Havelková

    Opera as Hypermedium: Meaning-Making, Immediacy, and the Politics of Perception

    Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. It is driven by the underlying question of what politics...
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