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5 Stars ***** Don't Fear the Reaper I highly recommend this book. I couldn't put it down! On one level, this is pure space opera. It's an exciting adventure with a flawed hero who is so very human that I couldn't help but root for him, a heroine I could really identify with, and a truly...

Savage barbarians enslave Aleytys, the wearer of the Diadem, as she sails the stars in her quest to find her truth and her history in this science fiction adventure.   The second book in author Jo Clayton’s phenomenal Diadem science fiction space opera series continues the adventures of Aleytys,...

Peace is balanced upon a knife edge… With the incomparable advantage of personal bridge forges and the elusive flying city, Demos, Bellona and her Ledanians have contained their rabid enemies, the Alliance, for more than a decade, preventing them from swallowing whole the hundreds of worlds...

This “dark and brutal” sequel to The Dangerous Type blends space opera and military science fiction (Publishers Weekly). No matter how hard Raena Zacari tries to leave her tormented past as an assassin behind, it always seems to catch up with her. First, there are the nightmares—a disturbing...

BOOK 4 in the multivolume Liaden Universe® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans. For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe® novels by Sharon...

Mira Fedor and her friends stand in the eye of the hurricane, and everything in the Orion League remains in flux. Mira is pregnant, and her gestation is proceeding at an inhuman pace. As she hides out on her bioship, Insignia, it seems clear that the extropist’s procedures have had unforeseen effects—but...

C. C. Blake returns with a pair of stories in this action-packed eighth issue. There are unusual adventures to be found in these sweaty, lived-in space opera worlds! Rick Cave finds himself once more outside of his Slav Space comfort zone, visiting the crime families dominated sector tucked...

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others,...

A photographic journey by Minoas about Maria Callas life in Athens neighborhoods."There are times where just simple hits lead you to do something that you’ve never imagined before. So as I had never thought I would do or say something about the greatest opera singer of all time. That said, perhaps...

New in Paperback! This book supplies a soprano with nearly everything she may need to perform the operatic arias discussed. The 28 arias included are chosen from among those that are more popular and most widely studied and performed. There are descriptions of stage settings, with costume sketches...

The full english text for the opera La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini. A romantic tragedy about the love between a poet, Rodolfo, and a seamstress, Mimì.

‘The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie’ was written by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas, and are here translated into English by Margaret Armour. The chief components include ‘The Rhinegold’ – the prelude, ‘The Valkyrie’...

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera,...

For most of my life I’ve wanted to be a top rate tenor. As a young man it was my dream to be singing in the great opera houses of the world. I always believed it was my destiny and that I had it in me to achieve my dream. But obviously my dream didn’t eventuate. However, I still believe it would...