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Opera 101

A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

by Fred Plotkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013

Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera...
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by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Blending music, dance, visual arts and drama seamlessly to create one of the most interesting things that millions of audiences enjoy is what opera is all about. Its 400 year old history is rich with instances of rise and fall of opera. With its roots in the Renaissance period, opera gradually spread...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows—the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist...
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Opera in the Jazz Age

Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain

by Alexandra Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018

Jazz, the Charleston, nightclubs, cocktails, cinema, and musical theatre: 1920s British nightlife was vibrant and exhilarating. But where did opera fit into this fashionable new entertainment world? Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and...
Cover of Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton
by Carmen Trammell Skaggs
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

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...
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The Opera Singer's Career Guide

Understanding the European Fach System

by Pearl Yeadon McGinnis
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010

Any singer longing to have a career in opera, particularly in Europe, should be familiar with the European system of classifying voices know as Fach. The Opera Singer's Career Guide: Understanding the European Fach System presents valuable information to help readers learn, understand, and use the...
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by Jeongwon Joe
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces...
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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias

The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America

by Heidi Waleson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the arts In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had...
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by Donald Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003

When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have. The fourth edition...
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The Crafty Art of Opera

For those who make it, love it or hate it

by Michael Hampe, Chris Walton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Opera is nowadays performed worldwide. But as an art form it is little understood by performers and audiences alike. The Crafty Art of Opera wants to change that. Here, Michael Hampe brings glimpses of the director's work to a wider audience, uncovering the many techniques and rules that should inform...
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The Politics of Opera

A History from Monteverdi to Mozart

by Mitchell Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops...
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A Night at the Opera

An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings

by Sir Denis Forman
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011

“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the...
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Divas and Scholars

Performing Italian Opera

by Philip Gossett
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008

Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.   Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip...
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Ticket to the Opera

Discovering and Exploring 100 Famous Works, History, Lore, and Singers, with Rec

by Phil G. Goulding
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

In Ticket to the Opera, Phil G. Goulding finally makes the magic and mystique of opera accessible to all. Here he offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as...
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