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Caritas relates the 'true', yet largely undocumented story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century anchoress who moves towards insanity as her desire for a divine revelation continues to be unfulfilled after a period of three years locked in her cell. Although physically isolated, she is aware of the...

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies...

A space opera from the author of the singularity classic, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect." The universe is a garden carefully cultivated by the billions-year-old species known as The Curators. Everything is under control. Until an obscure species from a small blue planet pops...

Today Mozart's exquisite Le Nozze di Figaro delights and moves audiences everywhere, long after its 1786 birth into tumultuous times. The original Beaumarchais play raised a firestorm in France, then on the brink of revolution, with its dangerous commentary on class relations. However, Lorenzo Da...

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses...

A mysterious skipper from Amsterdam is haunted by a terrible curse. The mariner wanted to circumnavigate the storm-lashed Cape of Good Hope, which had already claimed the lives of thousands of seamen. He cursed the unpredictable sea itself, and offered his soul to the devil, if only he would help...

Bodily Charm is a passionate defense of opera as a living as well as live art. Written for both the opera lover and the specialist by a physician and a literary critic, it is an accessible and engaging interdisciplinary exploration of the operatic body—both the actual physical bodies of the singers...

According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner...

“Honey, you said you were the Number One badass swordswoman in the Queendom you lived in, but you got creamed by a grunt in combat armor,” said Dita. “Now you're chained naked in a cell on a spaceship with a love slave. These are pretty good signs you've been in contact with a more...

ROMANZO BREVE (68 pagine) - MUSICA - Il genio di Puccini in un dramma nella Roma del 1800 Tosca è una delle opera più amate e conosciute nel mondo. Chi non ha mai sognato cantando "Recondita armonia", chi può non trattenere il fiato nel momento in cui Floria Tosca si lancia dalle...

The focus of Phantom of the baroque Opera is the parallel drawn between the sea piracy of the baroque and renaissance eras and the cyber piracy of the contemporary digital era. International frameworks to deal with sea piracy then and cyber piracy now remain ambiguous for any law enforcement entities...

SAGGIO (58 pagine) - MUSICA - L'opera più eseguita al mondo. Una struggente storia d'amore! Nei teatri di tutto il mondo la regina tra le opere è proprio "La Traviata" di Giuseppe Verdi. La storia di Violetta e Alfredo ha fatto commuovere intere generazioni, ha fatto piangere, vibrare...

First published in 1919. The Stories of the Operas, together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation. Illustrated with One Hundred Portraits in Costume and Scenes from Opera.

Conclusosi il Settecento, che in Mozart ha conosciuto il culmine e la pienezza dell’espressione musicale, si accendono i fuochi dell’Ottocento. Ovunque in Europa si affermano le identità nazionali, alle quali contribuiscono compositori e platee, e ogni paese scandisce sul palcoscenico le proprie...