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Bel Canto
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 21.99Bel canto, or 'beautiful singing,' remains one of the most elusive performance styles vocalists strive to master. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, composers routinely left the final shaping of recitatives, arias, and songs to performers, and singers treated scores freely so that inexpressively notated music could be turned... more...
Verdi With a Vengeance
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.95Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear . If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux... more...
Wagner Without Fear
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.95Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner worshipers, if you've longed to fathom the mysteries... more...
Verdi's Attila
Opera Journeys Publishing 2008; US$ 11.75A complete newly translated libretto with Italian-English side-by-side, including Music Highlight Examples. more...
Weep, Shudder, Die
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 15.99Decoding Wagner Despitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Live in HD? series, opera?s grandworld of soaring sopranos and breathtaking baritones?of tragic Rigoletto, triumphal Sigmund, and desperate Orfeo, of faithful Figaro, heartbroken Pagliacci,and lusty Don Giovanni?remains wrapped in an aura of impenetrable esotericism.Piercing... more...
Eyewitness Companions: Opera
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2008; Not Available"Packed into every page of this book is the excitement of discovery, knowledge, taste and visual beauty. It all gives the reader the illusion of being at an actual performance." Placido Domingo "Opera is a beautiful guide for opera enthusiasts as well as the perfect welcome for converts to this ancient rite. It offers today's and tomorrow's audiences... more...
Weep, Shudder, Die
HarperCollins 2011; Not AvailableDecoding Wagner Despitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Live in HD? series, opera?s grandworld of soaring sopranos and breathtaking baritones?of tragic Rigoletto, triumphal Sigmund, and desperate Orfeo, of faithful Figaro, heartbroken Pagliacci,and lusty Don Giovanni?remains wrapped in an aura of impenetrable esotericism.Piercing... more...
A History of Opera
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableOpera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions... more...
The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00Thomas McGeary's book explores the relationship between Italian opera and British partisan politics in the era of George Frideric Handel. more...









