Cambridge studies in opera, Harris-warrick, Rebecca (cornell University, New York)

Автор: Begam Richard
Название: Modernism and Opera
ISBN: 1421420627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421420622
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This captivating book-the first of its kind-will appeal to scholars of literature, music, theater, and modernity as well as to sophisticated opera lovers everywhere.

Автор: Michael Ewans
Название: Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors
ISBN: 1474239080 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474239080
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization, and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera.

Автор: Satterthwaite, Ann
Название: Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet
ISBN: 0199392544 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199392544
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: To most people, the term opera house conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more varied-and far more
interesting-history than that stereotype implies. In Local Glories, Ann Satterthwaite explores the creative, social, and communal roles of the thousands of opera houses that flourished in small towns across the country.

By 1900, opera houses were everywhere: on second floors over hardware stores, in grand independent buildings, in the back rooms of New England town halls, and even in the bowels of a Mississippi department store. With travel made easier by the newly expanded rail lines, Sarah Bernhardt, Mark Twain,
and John Philip Sousa entertained thousands of townspeople, as did countless actors, theater and opera companies, innumerable minor league magicians, circuses, and lecturers, and even 500 troupes that performed nothing but Uncle Tom's Cabin. Often the town's only large space for public assembly, the
local opera house served as a place for local activities such as school graduations, recitations, sports, town meetings, elections, political rallies, and even social dances and roller skating parties. Considered local landmarks, often in distinctive architect-designed buildings, they aroused
considerable pride and reinforced town identity. By considering states with distinctly different histories--principally Maine, Nebraska, Vermont, New York, and Colorado--Satterthwaite describes the diversity of opera houses, programs, audiences, buildings, promoters, and supporters--and their hopes,
dreams, and ambitions.

In the twentieth century, radio and movies, and later television and changing tastes made these opera houses seem obsolete. Some were demolished, while others languished for decades until stalwart revivers discovered them again in the 1970s. The resuscitation of these opera houses today, an example
of historic preservation and creative reuse, reflects the timeless quest for cultural inspiration and for local engagement to counter the anonymity of the larger world. These local glories are where art and community meet, forging connections and making communities today, just as they did in the
nineteenth century.

Автор: Marco Guy a.
Название: Opera: A Research and Information Guide
ISBN: 1138977608 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138977600
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.

Автор: Stendhal
Название: Memoirs of Rossini
ISBN: 1108063799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108063791
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is best known for his novel Le Rouge et le Noir. Reissued here is the 1824 English translation of his brilliant though somewhat unreliable Vie de Rossini of the same year. Colourful, vigorous and forthright, this is an opinionated contemporary critique of the composer.

Автор: Stendhal
Название: The Life of Haydn, in a Series of Letters Written at Vienna
ISBN: 1108061974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108061971
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, is remembered today for such novels as Le Rouge et le Noir. Involving audacious plagiarism, these early works on music originally appeared in French in 1814 under the pseudonym Louis-Alexandre-Cesar Bombet. This English translation was published in 1817.

Автор: Kreuzer
Название: Verdi and the Germans
ISBN: 1107638402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107638402
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources, in this book Kreuzer explores how Italian opera, epitomised by Giuseppe Verdi, influenced ideas of German musical and national identity from the mid nineteenth century onwards. The book discusses the changing image of Verdi and the transnational dissemination, reception and political appropriation of his works.

Автор: McGeary
Название: The Politics of Opera in Handel`s Britain
ISBN: 1316620220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316620229
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Thomas McGeary`s book examines how events at the Haymarket opera theatre were exploited in partisan politics during the ministry of Robert Walpole and Handel`s greatest period of opera production. It will appeal to all those interested in opera, British history and the history of music and theatre.

Автор: Reardon Colleen
Название: A Sociable Moment: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
ISBN: 0190496304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190496302
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.

Автор: Kidson
Название: The Beggar`s Opera
ISBN: 1107429072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107429079
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1922, this book contains a history of English opera described through the lens of The Beggar`s Opera, first performed in 1728. Kidson details the background to the opera`s creation, its author, and its lasting impact on the English opera scene.

Автор: Rutherford
Название: Verdi, Opera, Women
ISBN: 1107043824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107043824
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Verdi`s operas portray a striking diversity of female protagonists, including warrior women, courtesans, gypsies and feisty townswomen. Contextualising these characters within the social, cultural and political history of their period, Susan Rutherford examines the shifting and complex relationships between them and their female spectators in nineteenth-century Italy.

Автор: Kater
Название: Never Sang for Hitler
ISBN: 1107675049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107675049
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century, famous for the unique quality of her lyric soprano. Rather than a traditional biography, this book is both a descriptive narrative of Lehmann`s life and a critical analysis of the interconnections of the artist and society.