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While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star in her day. She entertained Eleanor Roosevelt in...

Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics...

Translated from the Italian, Cosi fan tutte means "That's how all women act"; the libretto, the last of three Lorenzo da Ponte wrote for Mozart, concerns the behavior of women, particularly the behavior of young women in the throes of romantic love. Are they fickle? Are their affections...

Four popular opera fantasies in one volume for violin with piano accompaniment, each with separate violin part: Carmen Fantasy for Violin and Piano (Hubay); Fantasia on Themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20 (Wieniawski); Fantaisie sur La Flute enchantee de Mozart, Op. 54 (Sarasate); and Fantaisie Brillante sur la Marche et la Romance d'Otello de Rossini, Op. 11 (Ernst).

Jan Rubes has been a leading performer and director on stage, film, and TV, and in concert, opera, musical comedy, and drama. With an operatic career already established, the Czechoslovakia native immigrated to Canada in 1949 and was soon the leading bass in the Canadian Opera Company. He has performed...

By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 84, Sir Charles Mackerras had achieved widespread recognition, recorded extensively and developed into a conductor of major international significance. In addition to areas in which he already had forged a distinctive profile (Janácek, Mozart, Handel,...

Già nell’Ottocento Kierkegaard e Nietzsche si sono interrogati sulla misteriosa forza che trabocca dal teatro musicale di Mozart, avvolgendo lo spettatore-ascoltatore entro una sorta di cerchio magico. Costante, in tutte le spiegazioni proposte, il riferimento alla carica vitale e umana di questa...

Jaren geleden, als ik het me goed herinner was dat ergens in 1997, schreef ik de rockopera Jacks Ravage. Ik lag in mijn zetel met een hersenschudding na een motorongeval en schreef het verhaal in een soort van onbewuste trance. Het was slechts enkele weken later dat ik het verhaal per toeval terug...

GRAND CLASSIC SCIENCE-FICTION SPACE ADVENTURE IN THE TRADITION OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN STRANDED AND SURROUNDED! --First In Bryan Smith's Colonel Landry Space Adventure Series It is the 25th Century. The space cruiser Beagle, under the command of Colonel Kendrick Landry, explores...

GRAND CLASSIC SCIENCE-FICTION SPACE ADVENTURE IN THE TRADITION OFROBERT A. HEINLEINSTRANDED AND SURROUNDED!--First In Bryan Smith's "Colonel Landry" Space Adventure Series.It is the 25th Century. The space cruiser Beagle, under the command of Colonel Kendrick Landry, explores a...

Ben Harrow and Charity Jones in Book One of the COSMIC CYCLONE Series: The Silent Planet.A Cosmic Cyclone is about to break!The Human Union has a mysterious enemy it knows nothing about—and the enemy is ready to pounce. To clear the way, it has to destroy the one person standing in its way: Ben...

Mattia Battistini (1856-1928) is considered by many to be among the finest examples of the bel canto singing style. His unique vocal abilities and strong stage personality made him the most famous singer of his time, with a career spanning nearly 50 years in the most revered opera venues in Europe....

SAGGIO (54 pagine) - MUSICA - IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: il capolavoro di Rossini e il barbiere più famoso del mondo! Non servono molte parole per presentare il capolavoro assoluto di Gioachino Rossini. Forse non esiste persona al mondo che non abbia intonato almeno una volta l'aria del barbiere...

With this handy dual-language volume, students of Italian can improve their knowledge of the language while enjoying the passion and poetry of some of the most famous arias ever written. Included are 141 arias from 29 operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Donizetti, Bellini, and 12 other composers. Among...