Opera category: 14844 books

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith,...

Space Opera Großband September 2018: 1226 Seiten SF Sammelband SF-Abenteuer von Alfred Bekker, Harvey Patton, Margret Schwekendiek, Jo Zybell, Gerd Maximovic Der Umfang entspricht 1226 Taschenbuchseiten Dieses Buch enthält folgende SF-Abenteuer: Harvey Patton: Sklaven...

When a grizzly bear walks into your office, it's enough to get your attention. When that grizzly turns out to be an opera-singing, biological-robot hybrid claiming someone stole his singing voice, it begins one of the strangest cases of Dexter Duff's career. Originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction.

Desperate to restore their once majestic place amongst the stars, humanity seizes every planet within reach. Under the control of an aging galactic empire, xenocide is routine. For most, the Akked Galaxy is a grim, hopeless place. Dispatched to subdue a separatist uprising, a government operative...

Conto da antologia Space Opera: Aventuras fabulosas por universos extraordinários por Cirilo S. Lemos, autor de O Alienado e E de Extermínio. A Torre de Babel, um vasto laboratório gerenciado por um coletivo de inteligências artificiais, é agora uma ameaça que precisa ser detida. Eufrates, a maior...

One majus hunts for who would betray the covert (and perhaps illegal) organization known as The Society of Two Houses. Mandamon Feldo is scheduled to meet a high-profile diplomat to present his newest invention, but instead finds the diplomat dead in a pool of blood on the floor of his office....

Conto da antologia Space Opera: Aventuras fabulosas por universos extraordinários por Sid Castro, autor publicado em diversas antologias de FC da Draco. A gloriosa espaçonave Argos, remanescente da Grande Guerra Galáctica entre os temíveis seres de silício e os seres de carbono, parte em uma perigosa...

In Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! expert and enthusiast Ian Bradley 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. Taking as his starting point the expiry of copyright on the opera libretti at the...

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning...

 ã€€`Who can turn skies back and begin again?' -Peter 　 This book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the British theatre's finest `lost' plays. Seeking to liberate Britten and Slater's work from...

This file includes: Aida, Alzira, Aroldo, Attila, Don Carlo, Ernani, Falstaff, Giovanni d'Arco, I Due Foscari, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I Masnadieri, I Vespri Sciliani, Il Corsaro, Il Trovatore, La Battaglia de Legnano, La Forza di Destino, La Traviata, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Nabucco, Oberto,...

Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leo? Janácek, this volume, the first in the Janácek Opera Libretti Series, is the full translation of The Cunning Little Vixen in English alongside the original Czech. This work meets the...

The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters and concert...

Ar fi putut fi o balerina de mare succes, o stea a scenei, talentul i-ar fi permis. Dar a ales sa fie Sotia Tenorului. Aluca Moldoveanu a scris aceasta carte ca un elogiu adus vietii de cuplu. Chiar daca s-a despartit dupa 25 de ani de casnicie, timp in care a calatorit prin toata lumea alaturi de...