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  • Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas by Harris, Ellen T.
    Ellen T. Harris

    Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

    Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving...
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  • Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art by Kestner, Joseph A.
    Joseph A. Kestner

    Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art

    For over twenty years, Joseph A. Kestner wrote for Opera News and other publications. Collected for the first time, Kestner's essays explore the creation, influence, context, and meaning of the world's most famous operas as well as hidden gems. For those new to opera,...
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  • Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich by Vincent, Isabel
    Isabel Vincent

    Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

    A secret aria of courage and suspenseEurope, 1937. Two British sisters: one a dowdy typist, the other a soon-to-be famous romance novelist. One shared passion for opera.With war clouds gathering and harassment increasing, the stars of Continental opera, many of whom are Jewish, face...
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  • Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family by Nicholas Temperley, Nicholas
    Nicholas Nicholas Temperley

    Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and His Family

    This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures, using them to illustrate aspects of music history in the 19th century. Musicians of Bath and Beyond: Edward Loder (1809-1865) and...
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  • The Crafty Art of Opera: For Those Who Make It, Love It or Hate It by Hampe, Michael
    Michael Hampe

    The Crafty Art of Opera: For Those Who Make It, Love It or Hate It

    Insights into an opera stage director's work from an internationally acclaimed director and teacher. Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike. The Crafty Art of Opera wants to change that. Here, Michael...
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  • I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still by Soll, Beverly
    Beverly Soll

    I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still

    William Grant Still (1895-1978) dreamed of a world in which his eight operas--for him the ultimate form of musical expression--would be heard in the major opera houses in the United States, devoting most of his career toward the pursuit of this goal. The first...
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  • Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition) by Banks, Simon
    Simon Banks

    Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition)

    Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera....
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  • Scottish Opera's Golden Years: The Glitter and Why it Faded by Duffus, John
    John Duffus

    Scottish Opera's Golden Years: The Glitter and Why it Faded

    Only six years after its unlikely founding in 1962, the young Scottish Opera entered a period of a dozen years when it could do little wrong.The Company was the brainchild of Sir Alexander Gibson, a conductor who was to prove the most pivotal and...
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  • Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, Richard
    Richard Wagner

    Prelude and Transfiguration from Tristan and Isolde

    Music examples and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. in some cases, the results of the original research by the editor or by others working in the field are published here for the first time. Much of...
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  • Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation by McClatchy, J. D.
    J. D. McClatchy

    Seven Mozart Librettos: A Verse Translation

    A landmark event in the world of music, Mozart's seven major librettos have finally been translated in verse with a sparkling poetic quality that matches the magnificence of the originals. Beginning this epic endeavor with his translation of The Magic Flute, first introduced at...
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  • The Magic of Beverly Sills by Guy, Nancy
    Nancy Guy

    The Magic of Beverly Sills

    With her superb coloratura soprano, passion for the world of opera, and down-to-earth personality, Beverly Sills made high art accessible to millions from the time of her meteoric rise to stardom in 1966 until her death in 2007. An unlikely pop culture phenomenon, Sills...
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  • The Rise of Cantonese Opera by Ng, Wing Chung
    Wing Chung Ng

    The Rise of Cantonese Opera

    Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass...
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  • Rigoletto: Critical Edition Study Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto: Critical Edition Study Score

    "I complain bitterly of the editions of my last operas, made with such little care, and filled with an infinite number of errors."--Giuseppe Verdi The University of Chicago Press, in collaboration with Casa Ricordi, has undertaken to publish the first critical edition of the...
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  • The Beggar's Opera by Gay, John
    John Gay

    The Beggar's Opera

    Mr. and Mrs. Peachum are horrified when they learn of their daughter Polly's secret marriage to the rebellious and notorious highwayman, Macheath. However, their fear is soon mitigated when they decide to kill him for his money. When Macheath is in the tavern, surrounded...
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  • Operatic Afterlives by Grover-Friedlander, Michal
    Michal Grover-Friedlander

    Operatic Afterlives

    In Operatic Afterlives, Michal Grover-Friedlander examines the implications of opera's founding myth -- the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: Orpheus's attempt to revive the dead Eurydice with the power of singing. Traditionally, opera kills its protagonists that best embody its ideal of the singing...
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  • Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714 by McGeary, Thomas
    Thomas McGeary

    Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714

    Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain. The reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) was pivotal for both politics and opera in Britain. In this study, Thomas McGeary brings together a wide...
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  • Stage Whispers: A Living History, Retold by Parent, Annalisa
    Annalisa Parent

    Stage Whispers: A Living History, Retold

    A century ago, Claremont, New Hampshire was a cultural mecca-a destination which drew performers from as far off as Boston and Montreal-and spectators from everywhere in between.Imagine if the popular bands of today were to make Claremont, New Hampshire, a tour stop, if your...
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  • Musical Realism in Puccini S La Boheme by Giordano, Luca Andrea
    Luca Andrea Giordano

    Musical Realism in Puccini S La Boheme

    For a long time opera was dominated by larger-than-life characters: kings and queens, gods and goddesses, mythic figures with power over life and death. However, as opera became a more and more popular form of entertainment, the perspective changed. The challenge for composers and...
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  • The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio by Leneman, Helen
    Helen Leneman

    The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio

    The Bible and Western culture is a burgeoning area of interest in recent scholarship, but comparatively little has been written on the Bible and music. Leneman's is a groundbreaking work, making some pioneering forays across an important interdisciplinary divide. The Performed Bible is an...
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  • Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera by Kay, Sarah
    Sarah Kay

    Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera

    Focusing on songs by the troubadours and trouv鑽es from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera contends that song is not best analyzed as "words plus music" but rather as a distinctive way of sounding words. Rather than situating...
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  • Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba by Wainwright, Robert
    Robert Wainwright

    Nellie: The Life and Loves of Dame Nellie Melba

    The tumultuous life of Australia's most famous opera singer, Dame Nellie Melba. AUSTRALIA'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR When most people think of Nellie Melba they picture a squarish middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious Dame whose voice ruled the world for...
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  • Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches by Thom, Paul
    Paul Thom

    Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

    Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. His argument is that operatic works have the potential to be art, but so do operatic productions, independently of their value as interpretations of...
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  • La Traviata: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Machlis.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634072625ISBN-13: 9780634072628Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.80w x 1.00d
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  • Roberto Devereux by Donizetti, Gaetano
    Gaetano Donizetti

    Roberto Devereux

    A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...
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  • Un Ballo in Maschera (a Masked Ball): Vocal Score by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Un Ballo in Maschera (a Masked Ball): Vocal Score

    (Vocal Score). Italian Only Cloth Score.Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0634071238ISBN-13: 9780634071232Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 324Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.60h x 8.20w x 1.00d
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  • Puccini - Manon Lescaut: Opera Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini - Manon Lescaut: Opera Full Score

    (Opera). Casa Ricordi is the original publisher for the unforgettable Italian operas that have made their mark on musical history and now hold a special place in the hearts of millions of music lovers. Now, for the first time, Ricordi makes their full orchestral...
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  • Madame Butterfly: Full Score by Puccini, Giacomo
    Giacomo Puccini

    Madame Butterfly: Full Score

    (Opera). Ricordi is proud to present the first titles in their new series of orchestral scores featuring engaging images (from Casa Ricordi's historical archives) and synopses in Italian, English, French and German. In addition, these scores feature heavier cover and paper stock plus stronger...
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  • Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House by Aspden, Suzanne
    Suzanne Aspden

    Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House

    Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet...
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  • Macbeth: Libretto by Verdi, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Verdi

    Macbeth: Libretto

    Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 0793553903ISBN-13: 9780793553907Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 10.10h x 6.40w x 0.50d
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  • Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9 by Horowitz, Joseph
    Joseph Horowitz

    Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9

    As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American obsession was unique. The central...
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  • Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9 by Horowitz, Joseph
    Joseph Horowitz

    Wagner Nights: An American History Volume 9

    As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but--as Joseph Horowitz shows in this first history of Wagnerism in the United States--the American obsession was unique. The central...
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  • Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances by Davidson, Jane W.
    Jane Davidson

    Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume II: Applied Perspectives: Compositions and Performances

    There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera's staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent...
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  • Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other by Davidson, Jane W.
    Jane W. Davidson

    Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes Volume I: Historical Perspectives: Creating the Metropolis; Delineating the Other

    There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera's staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent...
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  • Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire by Angelaki, Vicky
    Vicky Angelaki

    Martin Crimp's Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

    This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as between private and...
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  • Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera by Della Seta, Fabrizio
    Fabrizio Della Seta

    Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera

    Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, Not without...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Opera by Greenwald, Helen M.
    Helen M. Greenwald

    The Oxford Handbook of Opera

    What is opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity...
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  • Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience by Attard, Joseph
    Joseph Attard

    Opera Cinema: A New Cultural Experience

    Since 2006, leading opera companies have beamed their shows to thousands of cinema screens all over the world - live. 'Opera cinema' is the most successful marriage of this elaborate, esoteric artform and the silver screen. In the twenty-first century, more people watch opera...
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  • Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; by Coward, Noël
    No? Coward

    Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away;

    Although No? Coward's work as playwright, songwriter and actor has long been celebrated, his contributions to the British musical have largely been forgotten. Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthologyrectifies this omission from the musical theatre landscape, demonstrating how Coward's adaptability, creativity,...
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  • Selected Musical Plays by Noël Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away; by Coward, Noël
    No? Coward

    Selected Musical Plays by No? Coward: A Critical Anthology: This Year of Grace; Bitter Sweet; Words and Music; Pacific 1860; Ace of Clubs; Sail Away;

    Author: No? CowardISBN-10: 1350234680ISBN-13: 9781350234680Publisher: Methuen DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2022Pages: 552Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.21w x 1.63d
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  • Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre' by Stenberg, Josh
    Josh Stenberg

    Liyuanxi - Chinese 'Pear Garden Theatre'

    This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi ('pear garden theatre'), heir and current expression of one of China's oldest unbroken xiqu ('Chinese opera') traditions. It considers the genre's history prior to the 20th century, its signal successes...
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  • The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Aucoin, Matthew
    Matthew Aucoin

    The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera

    A user's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera From its beginning, opera...
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  • Szymanowski's King Roger: The Opera and Its Origins by Wightman, Alistair
    Alistair Wightman

    Szymanowski's King Roger: The Opera and Its Origins

    A guide to the origins and music of Szymanowski's exquisitely beautiful opera King Roger. Karol Szymanowski (1881-1937), the most important Polish composer after Chopin, wrote only two operas, the second of which, King Roger, completed in 1924, is a masterpiece. After decades of neglect...
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  • Victory Over the Sun by Bartlett, Rosamund
    Rosamund Bartlett

    Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera

    The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this 'anti-opera'...
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  • The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera by Leneman, Helen
    Helen Leneman

    The Voice of Judith in 300 Years of Oratorio and Opera

    This volume focuses on the story of Judith as presented by composers, librettists and playwrights over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists' views of Judith - strongly influenced by societal attitudes of their time - and how...
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  • The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera by Ranno, Danielle
    Danielle Ranno

    The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management: Gathering the Tools You Need to Work in Opera

    The Beginner's Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide.Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, the book covers stage management...
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  • New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 by Bentley, Charlotte
    Charlotte Bentley

    New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859

    A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world. New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859 explores the thriving operatic life of New Orleans in the first half of...
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  • Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich by Vincent, Isabel
    Isabel Vincent

    Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

    Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German...
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  • Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century by Glatthorn, Austin
    Austin Glatthorn

    Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire

    Author: Austin GlatthornISBN-10: 1316512495ISBN-13: 9781316512494Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 388Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.69h x 6.69w x 0.94d
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  • Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes by Hershberger, Monica A.
    Monica A. Hershberger

    Women in American Operas of the 1950s: Undoing Gendered Archetypes

    The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create...
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  • Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum by Clausius, Katharina
    Katharina Clausius

    Opera and the Politics of Tragedy: A Mozartean Museum

    A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the "Telemacomania" scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes. Imaginatively structured as a guided tour, Opera and the Politics of Tragedy captures the tumultuous impact of the...
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