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Performing Arts : Opera

Opera eBooks

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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Opera
By: Berger, William
Published by: Perigee

Traces the history of opera and its stylistic variations, discusses major operatic composers and their work, surveys classic operatic works, and offers concise profiles of legendary singers and performers. more...

Price: $14.95


Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!
By: Bradley, Ian
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)

Why is it that the work of Gilbert and Sullivan has not just survived but thrived into the twenty-first century? This work explores the world of Gilbert and Sullivan over the last four and a half decades, looking at the way this "phenomenon" is passed from generation to generation. more...

Price: $35.00


Opera
By: Downes, Edward O.D.; Marco, Guy A.
Published by: Routledge

Covering over 320 composers and 43 countries, this book will be invaluable to opera scholars, researchers and serious listeners throughout the world. more...

Price: $165.00


Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London
By: Woodfield, Ian; Groos, Arthur
Published by: Cambridge University Press

This book explores the cultural life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first time, Ian Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and the role of women in opera management. more...

Price: $68.00


Opera Coaching
By: Montgomery, Alan
Published by: Routledge

''Opera Coaching ''is the first practical guide for pianists, singers, and opera producers to this important--and often neglected--career. The opera coach is a teacher who helps singers not only meet the physical and vocal demands of a score, but--like the dramatic coach--shapes their entire performance. The opera coach must have a wide knowledge, from a full understanding of human physiognomy and the human voice, to the many languages used in Western vocal music, to the entire expanse of the opera repertoire, from its roots in 17th century sung drama through today's most modern compositions. ''Opera Coaching ''covers all of these topics and more, making it the ideal resource for anyone interested in this fascinating career. more...

Price: $22.95


Opera Journeys' Guide
By: Fisher, Burton D.
Published by: Opera Journeys Publishing

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Price: $45.00


Opera Production
By: Eaton, Quaintance
Published by: University of Minnesota Press

Designed particularly as a reference work for opera producers, students, performers, and writers, this book provides basic production information about more than 500 operas. Anyone planning to produce an opera will find here the essential information he n more...

Price: $67.50


Operetta
By: Traubner, Richard
Published by: Routledge

Considered the classic history of this important musical theater form. Traubner's book, first published in 1983, is still recognized as the key history of the people and productions that made operetta a worldwide phenomenon. more...

Price: $41.95


Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton
By: Skaggs, Carmen Trammell
Published by: Louisiana State University Press

In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera—both the art form and the social institution—in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers—including Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton—captured the transformations of a rapidly changing American literary landscape. Although they turned to opera for different reasons, they all saw a twofold function in the art form: a means of expressing a private aesthetic experience and a space in which to perform highly ritualized social functions.Skaggs opens with an exploration of Whitman, who believed that the opera singer infuses ordinary speech with an element of the divine. Through his poetry, he sought to transform these sacred intonations into vehicles of an artistic transcendence that could be experienced by his audience. Skaggs then turns to Poe and Alcott, who frequently imitated the excesses of opera in their fiction, flamboyantly enjoying the element of the absurd. Using opera as a setting in their work allowed them to explore the fallibility of human sensibility, especially our susceptibility to deception.Chopin and Cather, Skaggs shows, empowered their heroines with a voice, a medium for artistic transcendence, but they were also influenced by the growing popularity of Wagnerian opera—and of the idea that only through a sublimation of life can transfiguration of the soul occur. The true artist, they believed, inevitably lived a solitary life, sacrificing all for art. In the diva, for instance, Cather saw the ideal embodiment of the female artist. On the other hand, James and Wharton, Skaggs explains, recognized the opera box as the ideal setting for social considerations of class, codes, and customs in many of their stories and novels. Past literary critics have employed musical terminology to evoke what ope more...

Price: $29.95


Puccini Companion: The Glorious Dozen
By: Fisher, Burton D.
Published by: Opera Journeys Publishing

A comprehensive guide to Puccini's 12 operas, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, Story Narratives with over 120 Music Highlight Examples, and a newly translated Libretto of each opera (exclusing Turandot) with Italian English side-by-side. more...

Price: $89.95


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