Opera category: 14844 books
Oper - aber wie!?
Gespräche mit Sängern, Dirigenten, Regisseuren, Komponisten
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Opernkünstler im O-Ton
Oper fasziniert - und wie!?
Aber wie wird Oper "gemacht", komponiert, gesungen, dirigiert, inszeniert?
In diesem Buch schildern Sänger, Dirigenten, Komponisten und Regisseure im Gespräch mit Richard Lorber ihre persönlichen Erlebnisse bei der Opernarbeit....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Cultural, historical and reception-related contexts are central to understanding Mozart, one of the greatest and most famous musicians of all time. Widening and refining the lens through which the composer is viewed, the essays in Mozart Studies 2 focus on themes, issues, works and repertories perennially...
by Tamara Levitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Stravinsky and His World brings together an international roster of scholars to explore fresh perspectives on the life and music of Igor Stravinsky. Situating Stravinsky in new intellectual and musical contexts, the essays in this volume shed valuable light on one of the most important composers of...
by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
One of the most expressive and versatile of the great nineteenth-century Romantic composers, Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky brought a sense of intimacy and emotional power to all of his music — whether for orchestra, opera, ballet, or art song. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians remarks on the...
by George Handel
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This file includes: Acis and Galatea; Admeto; Alexander Balus; Alexander's Feast; An Occasional Oratorio; Ariodante; Athalia; Belshazzar; The Choice of Hercules; Deborah; Esther; Giulio Cesare; Israel in Egypt; Jephtha; Joseph and His Brethern; Joshua; Judas Maccabaeus; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed...
by Hector Berlioz
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This file includes: Béatrice et Bénédict, La Damnation de Faust, and Lélio ou le Retour à la vie, all in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande...
Symphony of Seduction
The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The orchestra has tuned, the lights in the hall have dimmed, and the conductor’s baton signals the downbeat for the beginning of the romance. Settle back – it’s telling you something…
The history of classical music is littered with murder, adultery, bigamy, fraud, sado-masochism, riches,...
by Adrian Holland
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
An epic space opera, adventure…This thrilling twelve part series combines aspects of mythology with new technology, as the human race evolves into its true Galactic Human form.It was now time for the final phase of Earth's evolution. Everything was in place, and the cosmic forces seemed unstoppable,...
by Steph Bennion
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A long time from now in a galaxy we call home... It is the twenty-third century and scientists, dreamers, crooks and believers have bridged the vast cosmos, staking their claims where distant suns burn fierce in the sky. Yet for all of humankind's technological marvels, life for many is far from a...
by Kevin J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
A prequel novella to Kevin J. Anderson’s bestselling space opera epic, The Saga of Seven Suns.
It is a time of great beginnings. Set a century before the grand events of the Saga of Seven Suns, Veiled Alliances chronicles the origin of the green priests on Theroc, the first Roamer skymining...
by Virginia McKenna, Joanna Lumley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Virginia McKenna starred in some of the most popular and enduring movies of our time, among them Carve Her Name With Pride, A Town Like Alice and Born Free, in which she played opposite her husband, Bill Travers. After Born Free both actors were at the peak of their careers, but the film and all it...
Forsaken Stars Saga
Attack on Phoenix, Scattered Ashes, and Revenants Rising
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
A 3-Book Space Opera Box Set From USA Today bestselling author Megg Jensen, combining the best elements of science fiction and fantasy
ATTACK ON PHOENIX:
Two hundred years ago, an interplanetary expedition crashed on a deserted planet. Their ship was destroyed. Their technology lost.
They...
by Jeffrey A. Carver
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Flying Dutchman of the stars! Star pilot Renwald Legroeder undertakes a search for the legendary ghost ship Impris and her passengers and crew—whose fate is entwined with interstellar piracy, quantum defects in space-time, galactic coverup conspiracies, and deep-cyber romance. Finalist for the...
by Ann Leckie
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 27, 2015
La deslumbrante opera prima que ha ganado todos los grandes premios de la ciencia ficción: Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Locus y BSFA.
En un planeta helado y remoto, una soldado llamada Breq se está acercando al cumplimiento de su misión. En el pasado, Breq era Justicia de Toren, un crucero...