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A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which...

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German...

Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to explain the success of operas such as Paisiello's...

This volume offers a cross-section of English-language scholarship on German and Slavonic operatic repertories of the "long nineteenth century," giving particular emphasis to four areas: German opera in the first half of the nineteenth century; the works of Richard Wagner after 1848; Russian...

The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the...

Nineteenth-century French grand operawas a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In...

Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In Recognition in Mozart's...

Romantic Arias for Classical Guitar is a collection of the world’s most beloved songs from the world of opera. An aria is a song performed during an opera that listeners are the most familiar with. These “pop songs of opera" provide an entry point for those unfamiliar with the opera...

Alerta vermelho! Todos aos seus postos! A nave Space Opera está pronta para a batalha final.Poderosas naves atravessam o hiperespaço e desbravam fronteiras galácticas. Seres exóticos, robôs, pós-humanos e suas aventuras e peripécias.Frágeis e indefesas princesas planetárias em apuros...

It was supposed to be an easy job, but it just might take the heist of the century to get out of this one alive. A far-future space opera from Bestselling author James David Victor. The Mercury Blade and its crew are always looking for an easy profit. When presented with a simple heist,...

The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini’s famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Bizet’s Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being among the greatest of comic operas, comparable to those of Mozart. Even Beethoven was enthusiastic....