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The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro
ISBN: 9780140441338 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini
A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro--condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege--depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woman. With characteristic lightness of touch, Beaumarchais--a French courtier, secret agent, libertine, and... The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini
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67,41 zł |
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Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
ISBN: 9780193152526 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of 17th-century England, despite the fact that it was originally composed not for the public theatre but for a private girls' school in Chelsea and takes little more than an hour to perform. Ellen Harris examines the work, s historical position in the Restoration theatre, and shows that, far from being an operatic anomaly, it was deeply rooted in 17th-century English theatrical and music traditions. Her book summarises the cultural climate in which Dido and Aeneas was composed, surveying the choice of subject matter and...
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of 17th-century England, despite the fact that it was originally composed not fo...
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361,55 zł |
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Opera Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780195056617 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alternately hilarious, poignant, and wise. Ethan Mordden has mined the literature for "the best stories" and retells them in the fresh and witty style that prompted Publishers Weekly to hail him as "one of the most entertaining and provocative writers around."
Mordden has selected a vast collection of classic, arcane and unusual anecdotes, including Giuseppe Verdi's advice on how to run an opera house and how to write an aria, Enrico Caruso's... From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore, alter...
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123,42 zł |
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Lutheranism, Anti-Judaism, and Bach's St. John Passion : With an Annotated Literal Translation of the Libretto
ISBN: 9780195114713 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of the powerful and highly emotional music and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments. What did this masterpiece mean in Bach's day and what does it mean today? Although bibliographies on Bach and Judaism have grown enormously since World War II, there has been very little work on the relationship between the two areas. This is hardly surprising; Judaica...
Bach's St. John Passion is surely one of the monuments of Western music, yet performances of it are inevitably controversial. In large part, ...
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361,55 zł |
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Opera: A History in Documents
ISBN: 9780195116380 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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,...
In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique ant...
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413,51 zł |
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Recognition in Mozart's Operas
ISBN: 9780195151978 / Angielski / Twarda / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a moment of new awareness that brings about a crucial reversal in the action--has been largely neglected in opera studies. In Recognition in Mozart's Operas, musicologist Jessica Waldoff draws on a broad base of critical thought on recognition from Aristotle to Terence Cave to explore the essential role it plays in Mozart's operas. The result is a fresh approach to the familiar question of opera as drama and a persuasive new...
Since its beginnings, opera has depended on recognition as a central aspect of both plot and theme. Though a standard feature of opera, recognition--a...
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483,48 zł |
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Inventing the Business of Opera : The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice
ISBN: 9780195154160 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate spectacles, featuring ornate costumes and set design along with dancing and music. As ambitious works of theater, these productions required not only significant financial backing, but also strong managers to oversee several months of rehearsals and performances. These impresarios were responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at season's end. The systems they created still...
In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercia...
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588,00 zł |
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The Tragic and the Ecstatic : The Musical Revolution of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
ISBN: 9780195176476 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a result of his discovery of Schopenhauer. Many of Schopenhauer's ideas, especially those regarding music's metaphysical significance, resonated with patterns of thought that had long been central to Wagner's aesthetics, and Wagner described the entry of Schopenhauer into his life as "a gift from heaven." Chafe argues that Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is a musical and dramatic exposition of metaphysical ideas inspired by Schopenhauer. The...
During the years preceding the composition of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner's aesthetics underwent a momentous turnaround, principally as a resu...
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588,00 zł |
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Inside Bluebeard's Castle : Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera
ISBN: 9780195181968 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first full-length examination of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, this is an authoritative study of one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Leafstedt adopts a broad approach to the study of opera by introducing, in addition to the expected music-dramatic analysis, topics of a more interdisciplinary nature that are new to the field of Bartok studies.
The first full-length examination of Bartok's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, this is an authoritative study of one of the twentieth cent...
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396,39 zł |
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Finding an Ending : Reflections on Wagner's Ring
ISBN: 9780195183603 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world.
Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner's Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, and... Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers,...
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123,42 zł |
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French Opera at the Fin de Siecle
ISBN: 9780195189544 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgre lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth centu...
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541,55 zł |
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A Most Ingenious Paradox : The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan
ISBN: 9780195301724 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakespeare in the history of English-language theater. Despite this resounding popularity and proven longevity, most books written about the duo have focused on the authors rather than the works. With this detailed examination of all fourteen operas, Gayden Wren fills the void. His bold thesis finds...
Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert...
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221,90 zł |
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The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas
ISBN: 9780195313130 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability. Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant...
Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information ...
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268,64 zł |
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The New Grove Guide to Mozart and His Operas
ISBN: 9780195313185 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability. Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant...
Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information ...
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117,38 zł |
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Horace Opera
ISBN: 9780198146186 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Horace Opera
Horace Opera
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102,36 zł |
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Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Volume 1: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791
ISBN: 9780198161660 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy-out, plunging the opera into escalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singers and dancers in Europe; ballet d'action came to London, with Noverre himself as ballet master; the company employed such composers as Sacchini,...
This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B...
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1342,85 zł |
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A History of Bel Canto
ISBN: 9780198166412 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Rodolfo Celletti, who has devoted his whole career to studying the voice from every historical, technical, and musical aspect, offers here a fascinating history of bel canto singing and the voice in operatic literature. He begins by discussing the links between bel canto and the operatic ideals of the baroque, and points out that the style was created as much by operatic composers and their librettists as by their executants, the singers. To this end he undertakes a review of Italian opera of the period, and traces the development of the style in different composers and their works.
Rodolfo Celletti, who has devoted his whole career to studying the voice from every historical, technical, and musical aspect, offers here a fascinati...
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309,29 zł |
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Verdi's Middle Period: Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9780226106588 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. During the middle phase of his career, 1849-59, Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-loved and most-performed works. Focusing on the operas he composed during this period, this volume explores Verdi's work from three interlinked perspectives: studies of the original source material, cross-disciplinary analyses of musical and textual issues, and the relationship of performance practice to Verdi's musical and dramatic conception. In addition to offering new insights into such staples as Il trovatore, La traviata, and Un ballo in...
During the middle phase of his career, 1849-59, Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-loved and most-performed works. ...
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709,30 zł |
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Verdi's Middle Period : Source Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice
ISBN: 9780226106595 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the middle phase of his career, 1849-59, Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-loved and most-performed works. Focusing on the operas he composed during this period, this volume explores Verdi's work from three interlinked perspectives: studies of the original source material, cross-disciplinary analyses of musical and textual issues, and the relationship of performance practice to Verdi's musical and dramatic conception. In addition to offering new insights into such staples as Il trovatore, La traviata, and Un ballo in...
During the middle phase of his career, 1849-59, Verdi adopted new compositional procedures to create some of his best-loved and most-performed works. ...
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299,46 zł |
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The Urbanization of Opera : Music Theater in Paris in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780226288581 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Anselm Gerhard explores the origins of "grand opera, arguing that its aesthetic innovations (both musical and theatrical) reflected not bourgeois tastes, but changes in daily life and psychological outlook produced by the rapid urbanization of Paris. These larger urban and social concerns crucial to our understanding of nineteenth-century opera are brought to bear in fascinating discussions of eight operas composed by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer, Verdi, and Louise Bertin."
""An invaluable look at this fascinating genre." George W. Loomis, Opera News" " Anselm Gerhard explores the origins of "grand opera, arguing that its aesthetic innovations (both musical and theatrical) reflected not bourgeois tast...
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245,42 zł |
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