Classical Opera category: 1804 books

Cover of French Musical Culture and the Coming of Sound Cinema
by Hannah Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018

The transition from silent to synchronized sound film was one of the most dramatic transformations in cinema's history, as it radically changed the technology, practices, and aesthetics of filmmaking within a few short years. In France, debates about sound cinema were fierce and widespread. In French...
Cover of Don Giovanni
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo Da Ponte
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 4, 2013

Don Giovanni - Dramma giocoso in due atti - Musica di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart su libretto di Lorenzo Da Ponte. Riassunto dei due atti, personaggi e testo completo dell'opera
Cover of Il Barbiere di Siviglia
by Gioachino Rossini, Cesare Sterbini
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Il Barbiere di Siviglia, melodramma buffo in due atti. Musica di Gioachino Rossini, Libretto di Cesare Sterbini, tratto dalla commedia di P. A. Beaumarchais. L'ebook comprende il riassunto dei due atti, i personaggi ed il testo completo dell'Opera.
Cover of Il teatro di Verdi in scena
by Elvio Giudici
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 14, 2012

Elvio Giudici ripercorre le tappe delle più significative rappresentazioni verdiane per capire come è cambiata la regia del melodramma negli ultimi sessant’anni. Con tutte le mises en scène di Verdi che hanno fatto la storia della drammaturgia del teatro d’opera dagli anni cinquanta a oggi. 25 opere – dall’Aida del 1953 ai Vespri siciliani del 2011.
Cover of The Wagnerian Romances
by Gertrude Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017

Chapters cover: PARSIFAL, THE RHINE-GOLD, THE VALKYRIE (DIE WALKUERE), SIEGFRIED, THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (DIE GOETTERDAEMMERUNG), THE MASTER-SINGERS OF NUREMBERG, TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, LOHENGRIN, ANNHAeUSER, and THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig,...
Cover of Sensing Sound

Sensing Sound

Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

by Nina Sun Eidsheim
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015

In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century...
Cover of Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne

A Short History

by Michael Kennedy, Julia Aries
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019

This concise history tells the fascinating story of how three generations of the Christie family have grown a small opera house in the South Downs into an internationally acclaimed Festival and Tour, reflecting founder John Christie's insistence on doing 'not the best we can do but the best that can...
Cover of Roland Hayes

Roland Hayes

The Legacy of an American Tenor

by Christopher A. Brooks, Robert Sims
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014

A “gripping, sensitive” biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson (The Atlanta Voice). Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man...
Cover of Weill's Musical Theater

Weill's Musical Theater

Stages of Reform

by Stephen Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill’s complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater’s key figures. Hinton shows how Weill’s experiments with a range of genres—from one-act operas and plays with music...
Cover of Verdi

Verdi

L'uomo nelle sue lettere

by Franz Werfel
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 25, 2013

Pubblicata inizialmente in tedesco nel 1926 e poi ampliata e riedita in inglese nel 1942, questa è stata la prima antologia delle lettere di Giuseppe Verdi destinata a un pubblico non italiano: un libro che ha dato un deciso impulso agli studi verdiani fuori dai confini nazionali, ma che per struttura...
Cover of La Traviata
by Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Mario Rocca
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 20, 2013

La Traviata, melodramma in tre atti. Musica di Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto di Francesco Maria Piave (dal romanzo di A. Dumas figlio La dame aux camélias). L'ebook comprende il riassunto dei tre atti, i personaggi ed il testo completo dell'Opera.
Cover of Aida
by Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Ghislanzoni
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2013

Aida, melodramma in quattro atti. Musica di Giuseppe Verdi, Libretto di Antonio Ghislanzoni. L'ebook comprende il riassunto dei quattro atti, i personaggi ed il testo completo dell'Opera.
Cover of Norma
by Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 16, 2013

Norma - Tragedia lirica in due attii. Musica di Vincenzo Bellini su libretto di Felice Romani tratto da una tragedia di A. Soumet e L. Belmontet. Riassunto dei due atti, personaggi e testo completo dell'opera.
Cover of Madama Butterfly
by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 10, 2014

Madama Butterfly - Tragedia giapponese in tre atti. Musica di Giacomo Puccini su libretto di G. Giacosa e L. Illica tratto da una novella di J. L. Long e da un dramma di David Belasco. Riassunto dei tre atti, personaggi e testo completo dell'opera.
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