Music-Genres & Styles-Opera

"The Savoy Operas" brings together the complete collection of librettos written by W. S. Gilbert for his legendary collaborations with composer Arthur Sullivan. Spanning the creative peak of their partnership between 1875 and 1896, this volume includes the full texts of world-renowned comic operas...

A history of the Aix-en-Provence Festival of opera and music, from its inception in 1948 to 2018. In this new study, the first book on the Aix Festival in English, Simon Trowbridge discuses artistic policy and describes each edition of the festival, with an...

An exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London, Paris, and New York. At the end of the nineteenth century, London, Paris, and New York were quintessential modern metropolises and vital centers for opera. In Operatic Infrastructures,...

“The Valkyrie” is a dramatic poem by Richard Wagner, adapted from his opera of the same name. Drawing deeply from Norse mythology, the poem explores themes of heroism, fate, and love through the iconic figure of the Valkyrie. Wagner's powerful verse brings the epic...

“Lohengrin, son of Parsifal” retells the captivating story of Lohengrin, the knight of the Holy Grail, based on Richard Wagner's celebrated opera. This rendition makes the timeless legend accessible to a broader audience, retaining the emotional depth and mystical allure of Wagner's original work....

A concise picture book of fifty pages illustrating thirty-nine delightful motion picture operettas in black and white photographs, with a short essay on the meaning of the term "Operetta".Author: Alice LorenceISBN-10: 1300637536ISBN-13: 9781300637530Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2025Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 8.50h x 8.50w x 0.16d

Rejected, Canceled, Giving Up, and Personal Struggles - every day, musicians from around the world begin their journey of musical expression. Discover WHY a musician shared a Grammy with John Legend and why an Australian on the brink of quitting impacted music teaching forever....

The genesis of Meyerbeer's last opera, L'Africaine, is something of a legend. He had first considered the subject in 1837 when Scribe presented him with two new drafts, intended to clinch the triumphant successes of Robert le Diable (1831) and Les Huguenots (1836). The...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This eleven volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime hardly rivalled by any of his contemporaries. This ten volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime unrivalled by any of his contemporaries. This eleven volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in his...

Meyerbeer's third Italian opera, Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) was premiered at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice on 26 June 1819 only three months after Semiramide had appeared at Turin, and scored a success that far surpassed that of both of its...

The Tuneful Voice: Selected Libretti presents a collection of works by Eugene Benson, professor, novelist, playwright, and editor, written over a fifty-year period. The volume includes adaptations of the writings of such prominent authors as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde as opera,...

In his lifetime, the opera composer Fromental HalÃ(c)vy was considered the leader of the French school; his admirers included Wagner, Berlioz, and later Mahler. Today, he is chiefly remembered for his grand tragic opera La Juive (1835). HalÃ(c)vy, a native of Paris, was active...

Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier,Nicholas Lester FullerISBN-10: 1527566579ISBN-13: 9781527566576Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2021Pages: 684Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.80w x 1.70d

Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN-10: 1527511324ISBN-13: 9781527511323Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2018Pages: 437Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10d

This book presents a detailed investigation of the singing technique that is generally known as the â oeinhaling the voice⠝ technique. In addition, it explores the usage of vowels in spoken and sung variants, offering advice to singers regarding how they can improve...

Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opera from the tragedie lyrique of Lully, Rameau, Gluck and Spontini. The libretto by Eugene Scribe and Germain Delavigne was derived from...

This book reproduces the Ricordi vocal score of Meyerbeer's last Italian opera (Milan, c. 1825). More than hardly any other opera of the first third of the nineteenth century, Il Crociato in Egitto (Venice, 1814) appears as work standing between the epochs. In its...

Giacomo Meyerbeer, one of the most important and influential opera composers of the nineteenth century, enjoyed a fame during his lifetime unrivalled by any of his contemporaries. This eleven volume set provides in one collection all the operatic texts set by Meyerbeer in his...

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is a book written by Robert Lawrence that provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most popular and enduring works of the famous British theatrical duo. The Mikado is a comic opera that was first performed in 1885...

The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters...

(Opera). This latest entry in Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos features the extraordinary new opera by the eminent Chinese-American composer Tan Dun that explores the mysterious relationship between East and West. Libretto by Paul Griffiths.Author: Tan DunISBN-10: 0634002384ISBN-13: 9780634002380Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1998Pages:...

The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety...

"Turandot: Full Score" provides the complete musical notation for Giacomo Puccini's final and perhaps most ambitious opera. Set in an ancient, mythological China, the narrative centers on the formidable Princess Turandot, who executes any suitor unable to answer her three riddles. When the mysterious...

From the New York Times's former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers The night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial, she called...

"Richard Wagner's Rheingold" is the first of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen. Wagner weaves together Norse mythology, epic storytelling, and complex musical themes to create a powerful and enduring work of art. This libretto offers a glimpse into the world...

(Vocal Score). Composed in 1818 on commission from an unknown individual in Lisbon, Adina was left to languish some years until its premiere in 1826, with a single performance in that city remaining virtually the only one on record until the opera's revival in...

(Opera). With Il Teuzzone, RV 736, the collected edition of operas by Antonio Vivaldi gains a new volume that brings to completion the pair of operas written by the "Red Priest" for Mantua. Premiered during the last days of 1718, the opera preceded by...

(Opera). Critical Edition. Two-volume set.Author: Gioacchino RossiniISBN-10: 8875927014ISBN-13: 9788875927011Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2006Pages: 658Format: PaperbackWeight: 4.11lbsSize: 10.56h x 7.91w x 1.85d

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...

Excerpt from La Donna del Lago: Melo-Dramma in Musica da Rappresentarsi nell'Imp. E R. Teatro in Via della Pergola la Quadragesima del 1824 Primo Flauto e Ottovino Sig. Carlo Alessandri. Sig. Pietro Luchini Sig. Domenico Chapuy. Primo Como Sig. Pasquale Baldini. About the Publisher...

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...

(Opera). This deluxe two-volume set in the Ricordi Opera Vocal Score Series is a reduction for voice and piano based on the critical edition of the orchestral score.Author: Gioachino RossiniISBN-10: 8875925593ISBN-13: 9788875925598Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 893Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.70lbsSize: 10.60h x 7.90w x 1.50d

(Opera). English Only. Translated by Martin.Author: Gioacchino RossiniISBN-10: 8875924155ISBN-13: 9788875924157Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1987Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 10.30h x 6.50w x 0.20d

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...

(Opera). Italian/English. Translated by Ducloux.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 8875921539ISBN-13: 9788875921538Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 61Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 10.20h x 6.50w x 0.30d

(Opera). Libretto by Giuseppe Bardani. Edited by Anders Wiklund. Text in Italian.Author: Gaetano DonizettiISBN-10: 8875920680ISBN-13: 9788875920685Publisher: RicordiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1987Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.75h x 4.75w x 0.32d

Author: Giuseppe VerdiISBN-10: 8875920982ISBN-13: 9788875920982Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2011Pages: 160Format: Paperback

(Vocal Score). Based on the complete edition.Author: Richard WagnerISBN-10: 3795798752ISBN-13: 9783795798758Publisher: SchottLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2013Pages: 478Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.38lbsSize: 11.75h x 8.25w x 1.27d

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...

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...

Author: Otto NicolaiISBN-10: 379576484XISBN-13: 9783795764845Publisher: EulenburgLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1986Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 7.20h x 5.10w x 0.30d

(Schott). "Carmen" is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world and the genesis of the work is exceptionally well documented. In spite of this, none of the editions published after the composer's death correspond to his intentions. Now Didion's edition, of...

(Schott). Bizet's Carmen is one of the most famous operas of all time. Love, jealousy, murder, vast choral set pieces, and overwhelming passion combined with a colorful Spanish setting are sure-fire ingredients for a world-wide success. All the most beautiful tunes from this opera...