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Remaking the Song
University of California Press 2006; US$ 45.00Opera performances are often radically inventive. Composers? revisions, singers? improvisations, and stage directors? re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they go far enough? This elegantly written, beautifully concise book, spanning almost the entire history of opera, reexamines attitudes toward some of our best-loved... more...
The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas
Oxford University Press, USA 2007; US$ 17.99Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized... 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 Monsters' Guide to Choosing a Pet
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableRoger McGough and Brian Patten have selected the very best of their animal poems in order to help two loveable monsters from outer space who visit Earth in search of a pet and need a bit of guidance...Split into sections, the monsters are introduced to animals that fly, swim, crawl and purr by two of our greatest childrens poets. Illustrated in Guy... more...
The Story of Giuseppe Verdi
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 37.00A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions. more...
Reading Asian Art and Artifacts
Lehigh University Press 2011; US$ 34.99Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a 'visible language' with messages that can be read, interpreted, and analyzed. These essays by scholars of Asian art, philosophy, anthropology, and religion focus on objects held in ASIANetwork schools. The collections are reflective of Asian societies, historical... more...
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