Classical Opera category: 1804 books

In questo libro Žižek compie un fantastico viaggio tra alcune delle più importanti opere per il teatro musicale scritte da grandi compositori. Il percorso di analisi – come in una seduta dallo psicoanalista – non è mai banale e piccoli dettagli che sembrano inizialmente irrilevanti assumono...

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...

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).

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...

The Classical Revolution studies the recent emergence of a new brand of classical music, one rooted in “pre-modern” tonal traditions. Through polemical essays on the conflict between re-emergent tradition and the usual, bland “modern music” in which academic atonalism, process music and attempts...

The classical record business gained a new lease on life in the 1980s when period instrument performances of baroque and classical music began to assume a place on the stage. This return to the past found its complement in the musical ascension of the American minimalists, in particular the music...

This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions, defines their importance to the musical canon, and places them into their wider social, cultural, and historical context. The nineteenth title...

In this compulsively readable, fascinating, and provocative guide to classical music, Norman Lebrecht, one of the world’s most widely read cultural commentators tells the story of the rise of the classical recording industry from Caruso’s first notes to the heyday of Bernstein, Glenn Gould,...

"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...

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...

"I recommend this book wholeheartedly to new music lovers" – Sir Charles Groves CBE Thanks to Nigel Kennedy and Pavarotti, millions of people have recently discovered that classical music is a highly enjoyable experience, perhaps contrary to their expectations. But the world of...

Who’s Afraid of Classical Music?   For years Joan Kennedy, at home, on the campaign trail, and in concert, has shared her love of classical music with adults and children. Now she uses her experience as a teacher and musician to show how you and your family can make music an enriching part of your...