Classical Opera category: 1804 books
The Wagner Clan
The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
This chronicle of renowned composer Richard Wagner and his descendants features “a cast of characters who are positively operatic in their histrionics” (The Guardian).
Richard Wagner was many things—composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
Richard Wagner is remembered as one of the most influential figures in music and theatre, but his place in history has been marked by a considerable amount of controversy. His attitudes towards the Jews and the appropriation of his operas by the Nazis, for example, have helped to construct a historical...
Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon and Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Despite its enormous popularity throughout the nineteenth century, Weber’s swan song, Oberon, has remained separate from the mainstream thrust of our modern understanding of German Romantic opera. In Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and the Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic, music historian...
Grétry's Operas and the French Public
From the Old Regime to the Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Why, in the dying days of the Napoleonic Empire, did half of Paris turn out for the funeral of a composer? The death of André Ernest Modeste Grétry in 1813 was one of the sensations of the age, setting off months of tear-stained commemorations, reminiscences and revivals of his work. To understand...
by Emily Kilpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
France has a long and rich music history that has had a far-reaching impact upon music and cultures around the world. This accessible Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the music of France. With chapters on a range of music genres, internationally renowned authors survey music-making...
The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
Historiography, Analysis, Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance,...
The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas.
From the partially lost work...
by Barry Millington, Stewart Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1993
"Scrupulous . . . planned and executed with quite unusual care." —Opera
There has long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner's Ring—a version that is reliable and readable yet at the same time is a true reflection of the literary quality of the German libretto....
by Richard Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In the second part of Margaret Armour’s translation of Richard Wagner’s best-known work ‘The Ring of the Nibelung’, the last two opera’s in the cycle, ‘Siegfried’ and ‘The Twilight of the Gods’, are reproduced here with colour plates by Arthur Rackham. ‘Siegfried’, the third...
by Prosper Mérimée
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Prosper Mérimée’s original novella that was famous adapted as an opera by Georges Bizet.
History is Our Mother: Three Libretti
Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, The Magic Flute
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations.
An NYRB Classics Original
Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art...
Così fan tutte
La scuola degli amanti
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Così fan tutte ( ossia la scuola degli amanti)- Dramma giocoso in due atti (KV588) - Musica di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart su libretto di Lorenzo Da Ponte (incaricato da Giuseppe II di scrivere un libretto basato su un fatto realmente avvenuto a Trieste) .
Riassunto dei due atti e testo completo dell'opera.
Deaths in Venice
The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the...