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  • Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Marien Leben by Rilke, Rainer Maria
    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke: Das Marien Leben

    Rainer Maria Rilke's fifteen-part poetic cycle Das Marien-Leben stands as his most eloquent meditation on Mary, the mother of Jesus, whose name he shares. Rilke composed these verses in 1912, and ten years later, Paul Hindemith chose to heighten their rhetoric in an expansive...
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  • Sopranos of Today by Rosenthal, Harold
    Harold Rosenthal

    Sopranos of Today

    Sopranos of Today, by Harold Rosenthal, offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives and careers of leading female opera singers circa 1955. Rosenthal, a respected authority on opera, provides insightful commentary and biographical details about the sopranos who graced the world's most prestigious stages....
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  • The Fortune Teller: A Comic Opera, In Three Acts (1898) by Smith, Harry Bache
    Harry Bache Smith

    The Fortune Teller: A Comic Opera, In Three Acts (1898)

    The Fortune Teller: A Comic Opera, In Three Acts (1898) is a musical masterpiece by Harry Bache Smith. The story follows the misadventures of a group of travelers who become entangled with a band of gypsies and their mysterious fortune teller. The opera features...
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  • Operas Every Child Should Know by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
    Mary Schell Hoke Bacon

    Operas Every Child Should Know

    Introduce young listeners to the captivating world of opera with Mary Schell Hoke Bacon's "Operas Every Child Should Know." This timeless volume offers accessible descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous operatic masterpieces. Designed as an introduction to classical...
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  • Camb Comp to Gilbert and Sullivan by Eden, David
    David Eden

    Camb Comp to Gilbert and Sullivan

    Memorable melodies and fanciful worlds - the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan remain as popular today as when they were first performed. This Companion provides a timely guide to the history and development of the collaboration between the two men, including a fresh...
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  • Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film: A Mediagraphy by Almquist, Sharon G.
    Sharon G. Almquist

    Opera Singers in Recital, Concert, and Feature Film: A Mediagraphy

    Videos featuring opera singers were initially released in the mid 1980s. This companion volume to Opera Mediagraphy: Video Recordings and Motion Pictures (Greenwood, 1993) indexes opera singers on video and film in concert, recital, and non-operatic feature film and includes VHS videotape, optical video...
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  • The Women of Quyi: Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies by Sborgi Lawson, Francesca R.
    Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

    The Women of Quyi: Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies

    Why has the female voice--as the resonant incarnation of the female body--inspired both fascination and ambivalence? Why were women restricted from performing on the Chinese public stage? How have female roles and voices been appropriated by men throughout much of the history of Chinese...
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  • The Pirates of Penzance, Etc by Gilbert, W. S.
    W. S. Gilbert

    The Pirates of Penzance, Etc

    Title: The Pirates of Penzance, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,...
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  • The Philosopher's Ring--Wagner as Thinker and Dramatist by Steinberg, Michael
    Michael Steinberg

    The Philosopher's Ring--Wagner as Thinker and Dramatist

    Presents Wagner as a serious philosopher and offers a fresh perspective on the Ring and its unique fusion of myth, human drama, and philosophical insight. Few figures of the nineteenth century were more influential than Richard Wagner, and few works of art have the...
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  • Dramma Giocoso: Post-Millennial Encounters with the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas by Durante, Sergio
    Sergio Durante

    Dramma Giocoso: Post-Millennial Encounters with the Mozart/Da Ponte Operas

    The three Mozart/Da Ponte operas offer a inexhaustible wellspring for critical reflection, possessing a complexity and equivocation common to all great humane works. They have the potential to reflect and refract whatever locus of contemporaneity may be the starting point for enquiry. Thus, even...
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  • Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres by Albright, Daniel
    Daniel Albright

    Musicking Shakespeare: A Conflict of Theatres

    In this book, Daniel Albright, one of today's most intrepid and vividly communicative explorers of the border territory between literature and music, offers insights into how composers of genius can help us to understand Shakespeare. Musicking Shakespeare demonstrates how four composers -- Purcell, Berlioz,...
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  • Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body by Novak, Jelena
    Jelena Novak

    Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

    Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is...
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  • National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered by Halliwell, Michael
    Michael Halliwell

    National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered

    Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of the repertoire. It is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of...
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  • Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera by Haili, Ma
    Ma Haili

    Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera

    This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male 'beggar's song' of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under...
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  • The Business of Opera by Belina-Johnson, Anastasia
    Anastasia Belina-Johnson

    The Business of Opera

    The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning marketing, audience development, promotion, arts administration and economic issues...
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  • Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips's 450th An by Smith, David J.
    David J. Smith

    Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips's 450th An

    Peter Philips (c.1560-1628) was an English organist, composer, priest and spy. He was embroiled in multifarious intersecting musical, social, religious and political networks linking him with some of the key international players in these spheres. Despite the undeniable quality of his music, Philips does...
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  • Acting In Opera, Its A-B-C: With Descriptive Examples, Practical Hints And Numerous Illustrations (1915) by Shea, George Edward
    George Edward Shea

    Acting In Opera, Its A-B-C: With Descriptive Examples, Practical Hints And Numerous Illustrations (1915)

    Acting in Opera, Its A-B-C is a comprehensive guidebook written by George Edward Shea in 1915. The book provides an in-depth understanding of the art of acting in opera, covering everything from the basics to more advanced techniques. Shea uses descriptive examples, practical hints,...
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  • The Opera And Oratorio: A Study In Music Appreciation by Faulkner, Anne Shaw
    Anne Shaw Faulkner

    The Opera And Oratorio: A Study In Music Appreciation

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • The Standard Opera and Concert Guide Part Two by Upton, George P.
    George P. Upton

    The Standard Opera and Concert Guide Part Two

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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  • The Standard Opera and Concert Guide Part One by Upton, George P.
    George P. Upton

    The Standard Opera and Concert Guide Part One

    The Standard Opera and Concert Guide V1 is a comprehensive guidebook written by George P. Upton. The book is designed to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of the world of opera and classical music concerts. It includes detailed descriptions of the most famous...
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  • Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality by Karantonis, Pamela
    Pamela Karantonis

    Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

    Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde composers, Cathy Berberian went on to embody...
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  • Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making by Roesner, David
    David Roesner

    Musicality in Theatre: Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making

    As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised...
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  • Operatic China Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific by Lei, D.
    D. Lei

    Operatic China Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific Staging Chinese Identity Across the Pacific

    In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American...
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  • The New Operational Culture: The Case of the Theatre Industry by Munoz-Seca, Beatriz
    Beatriz Munoz-Seca

    The New Operational Culture: The Case of the Theatre Industry

    Imparting experiences from the theatre world to show how to manage operations in the 21st century, this book provides the key ideas necessary to implement a new operational culture that will lead to excellence in service. This is a must read for executives who...
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  • Stories Of Favorite Operas by Bulla, Clyde Robert
    Clyde Robert Bulla

    Stories Of Favorite Operas

    Author: Clyde Robert BullaISBN-10: 1258354853ISBN-13: 9781258354855Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2012Pages: 286Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
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  • Midway in My Song: The Autobiography Lotte Lehmann by Lehmann, Lotte
    Lotte Lehmann

    Midway in My Song: The Autobiography Lotte Lehmann

    Midway In My Song: The Autobiography Lotte Lehmann is a memoir written by the renowned opera singer Lotte Lehmann. In this book, Lehmann shares her life story, from her childhood in Germany to her rise to fame as one of the most celebrated sopranos...
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  • Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune by Everist, Mark
    Mark Everist

    Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

    Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony)...
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  • Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Marvin, Roberta Montemorra
    Roberta Montemorra Marvin

    Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic "experiences" outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated,...
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  • Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
    W. J. (William James) Henderson

    Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

    Delve into the rich history of Italian opera with William James Henderson's "Some Forerunners of Italian Opera," a meticulously prepared print republication of a seminal work. This book explores the evolution of opera in Italy, tracing its roots and influences in the baroque period...
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  • The Standard Operaglass by Annesley, Charles
    Charles Annesley

    The Standard Operaglass

    Unlock the captivating world of opera with "The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas" by Charles Annesley. This comprehensive guide offers concise and accessible plot summaries of a vast repertoire of beloved operas. Delve into the stories behind the...
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  • The Standard Operaglass by Annesley, Charles
    Charles Annesley

    The Standard Operaglass

    Unlock the captivating world of opera with "The Standard Operaglass: Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas" by Charles Annesley. This comprehensive guide offers concise and accessible plot summaries of a vast repertoire of beloved operas. Delve into the stories behind the...
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  • Stories From the Operas by Davidson, Gladys
    Gladys Davidson

    Stories From the Operas

    This delightful collection of opera stories is perfect for music lovers and literature enthusiasts alike. With synopses of classic operas like Carmen, La Traviata, and Aida, this book is a great way to discover or rediscover some of the most beloved works of the...
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  • Adriano In Siria. Opera Drammatica Da Rappresentarsi Nel Regio Teatro Del Buon-ritiro, Festeggiandosi Il Gloriosissimo Giorno Natalizio Di ... D. Ferd by Metastasio, Pietro
    Pietro Metastasio

    Adriano In Siria. Opera Drammatica Da Rappresentarsi Nel Regio Teatro Del Buon-ritiro, Festeggiandosi Il Gloriosissimo Giorno Natalizio Di ... D. Ferd

    This exuberant and lyrical opera, first performed in 1734 for the Spanish court, tells the story of the Roman emperor Hadrian and his love affair with the beautiful Syrian princess Emirena. With beautiful arias, stirring choruses, and intricate ensemble scenes, as well as vivid...
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  • The Wagnerian Drama: An Attempt to Inspire a Better Appreciation of Wagner As a Dramatic Poet by Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
    Houston Stewart Chamberlain

    The Wagnerian Drama: An Attempt to Inspire a Better Appreciation of Wagner As a Dramatic Poet

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944 by Fryer, Paul
    Paul Fryer

    Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944

    A prominent star in both pre-Revolutionary Russia and New York, Lina Cavalieri, described as "the most beautiful woman in the world," was one of the most frequently photographed personalities of her time. The cabaret performer, courtesan, and international star is documented in this, her...
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  • Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring by Berry, Mark
    Mark Berry

    Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring

    Mark Berry explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's Ring through close attention to the text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition, and the wealth of Wagner source material. Many of his...
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  • Wagner Androgyne by Nattiez, Jean-Jacques
    Jean-Jacques Nattiez

    Wagner Androgyne

    That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws from semiology, music criticism, and psychoanalysis to explore such topics as...
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  • Reading Opera by Groos, Arthur
    Arthur Groos

    Reading Opera

    "Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has,...
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  • Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought by Flaherty, Gloria
    Gloria Flaherty

    Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought

    Although opera figured importantly in the French quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns and in the English discussions of heroic tragedy, it was in Germany that its role in the development of criticism and aesthetics was most pronounced. Beginning with this observation, Gloria...
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  • Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China by Li
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    Li

    Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China

    Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s,...
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  • Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and Beyond by Garde, Ulrike
    Ulrike Garde

    Theatre and Internationalization: Perspectives from Australia, Germany, and Beyond

    Theatre and Internationalization examines how internationalization affects the processes and aesthetics of theatre, and how this art form responds dramatically and thematically to internationalization beyond the stage. With central examples drawn from Australia and Germany from the 1930s to the present day, the book...
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  • Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur by Montgomery, Alan
    Alan Montgomery

    Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur

    Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Répétiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when working with opera singers to help them meet the physical and vocal demands of a score in order to shape a performance. Opera...
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  • The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers: Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815 by Pitou, Spire
    Spire Pitou

    The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers: Rococo and Romantic, 1715-1815

    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. Each entry pertaining to an opera or ballet identifies its composer, librettist, choreographer, costumer, set designer, and the performers...
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  • The Comedians of the King: Opéra Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution by Doe, Julia
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    Julia Doe

    The Comedians of the King: Opéra Comique and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution

    Lyric theater in ancien régime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragédie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opéra comique, a form tracing its roots to the seasonal trade...
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  • Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky by Levin, David J.
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    David J. Levin

    Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

    What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was...
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  • Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime by Johnson, Victoria
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    Victoria Johnson

    Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime

    On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the...
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  • Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'arte by Wilbourne, Emily
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    Emily Wilbourne

    Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'arte

    In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages...
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  • Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914 by Fauser, Annegret
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    Annegret Fauser

    Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914

    Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the "capital of the nineteenth century." The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its...
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  • Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner by Daub, Adrian
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    Adrian Daub

    Tristan's Shadow: Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner

    Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas--and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing...
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  • Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater by Buch, David J.
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    David J. Buch

    Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater

    Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics...
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