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The Oxford Illustrated History Of Opera
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Author : Roger Parker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Opera written by Roger Parker and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
A History Of Opera
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Author : Carolyn Abbate
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-11-01
A History Of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Music categories.
Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political and literary background, its economic cicumstances and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. Central to the book is an exploration of the tensions that have always sustained and enlivened opera. Abbate and Parker examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works - which were once opera's life-blood - have shrunk to a tiny minority, have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire. Yet the book's final message is one of celebration. Even if the majority of opera's most popular and enduring works were written in what is now a remote European past, in circumstances very different from our own, and the viability of contemporary opera is ever more in question, opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. It continues to transform people physically, emotionally, and intellectually, and to articulate human experience in ways no other art form can match.
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Theatre
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Author : John Russell Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Illustrated History
Release Date : 2001
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Theatre written by John Russell Brown and has been published by Oxford Illustrated History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Italy
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Author : George Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Oxford Illustrated History Of Italy written by George Holmes and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Traces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.
The History Of Opera
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Author : Roger Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The History Of Opera written by Roger Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
The Oxford History Of Opera
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Author : Roger Parker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Oxford History Of Opera written by Roger Parker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Opera categories.
The Oxford Handbook Of Opera
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Author : Helen M. Greenwald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2014
The Oxford Handbook Of Opera written by Helen M. Greenwald and has been published by Oxford Handbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Music categories.
Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.
Opera
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Author : Piero Weiss
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Opera written by Piero Weiss and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary source material, this survey includes 115 chronologically organized selections--passages from private letters, public decrees, descriptions of first performances, portions of libretti, literary criticism and satire, newspaper reviews and articles, and poetry and fiction--from opera's late Renaissance infancy through modern times. This first-hand testimony allows students to experience the history of opera as eyewitnesses, offering an immediacy and validity unmatched by standard histories. Readers are transported to a Medici wedding in sixteenth-century Florence, to the Haymarket Theatre for a performance of Handel's Rinaldo, to Mozart at work on Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and to Bertolt Brecht's writing desk, among many other landmarks in opera's history. Weiss expertly guides students, providing highly accessible headnotes to each selection that both contextualize the excerpts and position them within the broader historical narrative. In addition, he offers original translations of more than half of the selections in the book, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Stage settings, costumes, portraits, contemporary playbills, and other illustrations enliven the text and help to recreate the feel of the era under discussion. Opera: A History in Documents is an intrinsically lively text that will enrich college courses on opera and delight any music-loving reader.
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The World
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Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-03
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The World written by Felipe Fernández-Armesto and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-03 with History categories.
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
The Grove Book Of Opera Singers
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Author : Laura Williams Macy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Grove Book Of Opera Singers written by Laura Williams Macy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Covering over 1500 singers from the birth of opera to the present day, this marvelous volume will be an essential resource for all serious opera lovers and an indispensable companion to the enormously successful Grove Book of Operas. The most comprehensive guide to opera singers ever produced, this volume offers an alphabetically arranged collection of authoritative biographies that range from Marion Anderson (the first African American to perform at the Met) to Benedict Zak (the classical tenor and close friend and colleague of Mozart). Readers will find fascinating articles on such opera stars as Maria Callas and Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza and Fyodor Chaliapin, Lotte Lehmann and Jenny Lind, Lily Pons and Luciano Pavarotti. The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, most memorable roles, and much more. But these articles often go well beyond basic biographical information to offer colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style, plus astute evaluations of their place in operatic history and many other intriguing observations. Many entries also include suggestions for further reading, so that anyone interested in a particular performer can explore their life and career in more depth. In addition, there are indexes of singers by voice type and by opera role premiers. The articles are mostly drawn from the acclaimed Grove Music Online and have been fully revised, and the book is further supplemented by more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers. A superb new guide from the first name in opera reference, The Grove Book of Opera Singers is a lively and authoritative work, beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white pictures. It is an essential volume--and the perfect gift--for opera lovers everywhere.