The Bel Canto Operas Of Rossini Donizetti And Bellini
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The Bel Canto Operas Of Rossini Donizetti And Bellini
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Author : Charles Osborne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Bel Canto Operas Of Rossini Donizetti And Bellini written by Charles Osborne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
Giovanni Battista Rubini And The Bel Canto Tenors
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Author : Dan H. Marek
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Giovanni Battista Rubini And The Bel Canto Tenors written by Dan H. Marek and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Music categories.
Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character and supporting roles in the operas of their time. Rubini stood apart because he not only matched the castrati in coloratura and pathos, but he also had an extraordinarily high voice. With Rubini’s rise, and in his wake, several tenors came to sing roles written specifically for them by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and many other lesser-known bel canto composers. Signaling the end of the dominance of castrati on stage, this period would last some 40 years until the advent of Grand Opera, Wagner, and Verdi and the appearance of the first so-called High C from the chest by Gilbert-Louis Duprez in 1837. Since then, the accepted tenor sound has followed the tradition epitomized by Enrico Caruso and, in our own era, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Many composers, conductor, and performers would come to regard bel canto dramatic operas as decorative and vapid until Maria Callas and Tulio Serafin demonstrated the heights this genre of opera could reach. However, opera directors and opera performers of late who have expressed an interest in reviving selected masterpieces from the bel canto tradition have found themselves confronted with the problem of locating tenors versed in the vocal techniques necessary to carry the high tessituras. In Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors: History and Technique, Dan H. Marek explores the extraordinary life of Rubini in order to frame this special period in the history of opera and connect the technique of the castrati who were among Rubini’s instructors. Drawing on the work of Berton Coffin, Marek offers long-sought answers to the challenges presented by high tessitura of bel canto operas for tenors. To further assist working singers, Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors includes over 60 pages of exercises written by Rubini himself before 1840, which Marek, for the first time ever has adapted to acoustical phonetics. Professional singers, teachers and their students, vocal coaches, and opera conductors will find this work indispensable as the only English-language work on high tessitura for tenor and soprano singing.
The Bel Canto Operas Of Rossini Donizetti And Bellini
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Author : Charles Osborne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Bel Canto Operas Of Rossini Donizetti And Bellini written by Charles Osborne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Music categories.
Gioachino Rossini
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Author : Denise Gallo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
Gioachino Rossini written by Denise Gallo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Music categories.
Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries. The first edition was published in 2001, and represented a survey of some 878 publications relating to the composer’s life and works. The second edition is revised and updated to include the more than 150 books and articles written in the field of Rossini studies since then. Contents range from sources published in the early decades of the nineteenth century to works currently in progress. General subject areas include Rossini's biography, historical and analytical studies of his operatic and non-operatic compositions, his personal and professional associations, and the reassessment of his role in the development of nineteenth-century music.
Vincenzo Bellini
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Author : Herbert Weinstock
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1971
Vincenzo Bellini written by Herbert Weinstock and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is the first full-length critical biography in English of Vincenzo Bellini, and it completes the author's trilogy of biographies of the outstanding pre-Verdian composers of Italy, linking as it does the life of the creator of Norma and I Puritani with those of Rossini and Donizetti. Mercurial, talented, ruled by swiftly fluctuating moods, the young Bellini from the start of his college days in Naples kept up a voluminous correspondence with his friends that gives a particularly rich and intimate view of his character and development as he moved through the musical life of Italy, London, and Paris in the heyday of bel canto. The handsome and self-centered Sicilian prodigy, captured off guard by Heinrich Heine so wickedly as "a sigh in dancing pumps," died at the tragically early age of 33, having written ten operas. Of these, Norma, La Sonnambula, and I Puritani have never disappeared from the repertoires of leading opera houses for over a century, and new recordings by opera stars bear witness to the rising interest in his lesser-known works as Il Pirata and Beatrice di Tenda. He wrote for the greatest singers of his day - Malibran, Grisi, Pasta, and Rubini - and he was the darling of the salons of Europe. This book tells the story of a great composer of opera and a complex, curiously flawed young man, sometimes winningly charming, sometimes abrasive and fearful. Mr. Weinstock, with judicious skill, lets Bellini speak as often as possible in his own words, and the result is the fascinating and shaded self-portrait of an artist at work. The second part of the volume is devoted to a detailed analysis of the operas and the non-operatic compositions, with information about the original casts and subsequent performers of the roles. The book contains a wealth of illustrations, some of which have never before been available for publication.
Vincenzo Bellini And The Aesthetics Of Early Nineteenth Century Italian Opera
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Author : Simon Maguire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-11-05
Vincenzo Bellini And The Aesthetics Of Early Nineteenth Century Italian Opera written by Simon Maguire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-05 with History categories.
First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are unfamiliar today, but they express the accepted views on music, opera, and singing that dominated a particularly insular tradition. This title will be of interest to students of Italian and Music History.
The Assoluta Voice In Opera 1797 1847
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Author : Geoffrey S. Riggs
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003
The Assoluta Voice In Opera 1797 1847 written by Geoffrey S. Riggs and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Music categories.
It is unusual for styles in opera to carry over from one era into another. It would be even more unusual for one era's characteristics to linger two generations into the next. Yet this is precisely what happened during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the intricacies of the fleet bel canto style were combined with the Romantic era's heroic declamation and formidable orchestral emphasis resulting in the creation of the assoluta voice. This work traces the emergence of the impressive vocal writing that resulted from the marriage of the bel canto and Romantic eras. It also covers the uniquely versatile divas who were given the opportunities to make their mark on opera from the time of Cherubini to that of a young Verdi. Here, both the wide-ranging vocalism in the scores themselves and the artists capable of performing this style are referred to as assoluta. Chapters consider Luigi Cherubini's Medee, Gioacchino Rossini's Armida, Carl Maria von Weber's Oberon, Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, Donizetti's Gemma di Vergy and Roberto Devereux, the time of transition in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco and Macbeth.
Bellini S Norma
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Author : Burton D. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Release Date : 2001-08-15
Bellini S Norma written by Burton D. Fisher and has been published by Opera Journeys Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-15 with categories.
Alto
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Author : Dan H. Marek
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-10-20
Alto written by Dan H. Marek and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Music categories.
Everyone is familiar with the words diva or prima donna, which have come to mean a (usually) outrageous operatic soprano, but there was a time when the star of the show was more often a contralto, or a soprano singing in today's mezzo-soprano range. This performer was referred to as an alto. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the male and female leading roles were likely to be sung by emasculated males, the alto castrati, although there were many great female altos during this period as well. The music for these fantastic artists, written by such composers as Porpora, Vinci, Hasse, and even Handel, has been largely forgotten. At the beginning of the 19th century, as the castrati died out, their roles were often assumed by female altos referred to as musici. New repertoire continued to be written for them by Rossini and others, but gradually, this musical tradition and technique was lost. Now, however, because of the talent and industry of such gifted artists as Marilyn Horne, Cecilia Bartoli, and Joyce DiDonato, and the sudden ease with which the performance of these forgotten works can be obtained, there is a resurgence of interest in the performance and preservation of this lost art. Alto: The Voice of Bel Canto examines the careers of nearly 320 great alto singers, including the great castrati, from the dawn of opera in 1597 to the present. The music of the composers who wrote for the alto voice is discussed along with musical examples and suggestions for listening. The exploration of the greatest altos’ careers and techniques offers inspiration for aspiring young singers as well as absorbing reading for the music lover who wants to know more about the fascinating world of opera.
Le Bel Canto
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Author : Piotr Kaminski
language : fr
Publisher: Le Livre de poche
Release Date : 2010
Le Bel Canto written by Piotr Kaminski and has been published by Le Livre de poche this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Reference categories.
« Le livre que vous avez entre les mains n’a pas d’équivalent. [...] Aucun guide n’égale son style, sa rigueur, la passion et la profonde connaissance de l’opéra qui le soulèvent d’un bout à l’autre. [...] Tous les opéras sont traités de la même manière : titre, genre, auteur du livret, date de la création, distribution d’origine, argument, histoire, puis analyse de l’oeuvre. Piotr Kaminski y ajoute parfois la liste des grandes reprises depuis la création et, systématiquement, de courtes indications discographiques. Que vous lisiez cet ouvrage d’une traite ou que vous alliez y picorer des informations sur tel ou tel opéra, soyez les bienvenus dans le monde merveilleux de l’art lyrique. »