Classical Opera category: 1804 books
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This is the complete orchestral and vocal score of Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered by many to be the greatest opera ever written. This edition contains all the music Mozart wrote for Don Giovanni, both for the original version performed in Prague (1787) and the alterations―Don Ottavio's aria "Dalla...
Music and Politics in San Francisco
From the 1906 Quake to the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco’s musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to establish cultural monuments such as the San Francisco Symphony (1911) and Opera (1923). Leta E. Miller draws...
Opera and Sovereignty
Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that...
Sarah Caldwell
The First Woman of Opera
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Sarah Caldwell: The First Woman of Opera is the first biography of this significant musician, conductor, and director and documents Ms. Caldwell's genius as an indomitable force for opera in America. Caldwell mounted many U.S. premieres and brought rare editions of standard works to her audiences....
Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick
A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheers grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary...
Conducting Business
Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Conducting an orchestra is something that is seen as well as heard, but it is quite misunderstood when it comes to knowing what this person actually does for a living. This most mysterious of jobs is brought to life for the music lover as well as for the aspiring maestro in a new book by Leonard Slatkin.
Drawing...
Li sposi per accidente
Booklet
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
LI SPOSI PER ACCIDENTE
Farsetta per musica in un atto di Giuseppe Palomba
Critical Edition of the libretto by Simone Perugini.
Li sposi per accidente è una farsa per musica in un atto composta da Domenico Cimarosa, su libretto di Giuseppe Palomba, che debuttò...
The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings
The Must-Have CDs and DVDs
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR
This completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Music Talks: the lives of classical musicians by Helen Epstein (92,000 words)
A collection of profiles of some of the world's most fascinating musicians, including the late Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Dorothy DeLay and the very lively James Galway and Yo-Yo Ma. Passed from hand...
Losing the Plot in Opera
Myths and secrets of the world`s great operas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
The world of opera is a mystery to some and a comedy to others, but it is deadly serious to the people who live and breathe it. Opera conductor Brian Castles-Onion has seen opera from all sides and has decided to step back and reflect on the great operas and on the people who bring them to the stage....
The Opera Guide
100 Popular Composers UPDATED 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2015
THE OPERA GUIDE – 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world’s greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today’s ground-breaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other...
by Alan Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
"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...
Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors
History and Technique
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character and supporting roles in the operas of...
by Lotfi Mansouri
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. Over the course of a career that has spanned...