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Enchantment: The Seductress in Opera
ISBN: 9780231140904 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? How does the sensual space of opera transport us into the realm of dream? Jean Starobinski considers the allure of several seducers and seductresses from nineteenth-century opera-Monteverdi's Poppea, Handel's Alcina, and Massenet's Manon, among others-and how their stories are woven into the fabric of Western culture. A talented storyteller and renowned critic of literature...
We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What is it about the marriage of music and the stage th...
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219,05 |
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Opera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
ISBN: 9780786438983 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealandover 300, from the well known to the smaller.
This is the most comprehensive reference book ever written on opera companies and houses in Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealandover 300,...
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271,37 |
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Opera Companies and Houses of the United States: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference
ISBN: 9780786438990 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a state-by-state guide to over 90 opera houses and companies in the United States. Inaugural performances, a history of opera in the city, an ordinary seasons repertory, and performers and directors are highlighted.
This is a state-by-state guide to over 90 opera houses and companies in the United States. Inaugural performances, a history of opera in the city, an ...
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271,37 |
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Music Theory for Musical Theatre
ISBN: 9780810859012 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music Theory for Musical Theatre guides the musical theatre practitioner through elements of music theory and score analysis using a workbook format and examples from musical theatre that emphasize music's value as a key contributor to the dramatic gestalt.
Music Theory for Musical Theatre guides the musical theatre practitioner through elements of music theory and score analysis using a workbook format a...
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267,68 |
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I Masnadieri: Melodramma Tragico in Four Parts by Andrea Maffeivolume 11
ISBN: 9780226853185 / Angielski / Twarda / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Composed between October 1846 and the spring of 1847, "I masnadieri" features a libretto based on Schiller's play "Die Rauber" (The Robbers). The opera premiered in July 1847 at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, with Jenny Lind as the "prima donna." Verdi himself supervised the rehearsals for the premiere, and the original performing parts, which contain annotations made by the players under Verdi's direction and changes made by the composer during the rehearsals, have been preserved at the archives of the Royal Opera House.
The critical edition is the first publication of "I masnadieri" in... Composed between October 1846 and the spring of 1847, "I masnadieri" features a libretto based on Schiller's play "Die Rauber" (The Robbers). The oper...
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2459,52 |
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The Grove Book of Opera Singers
ISBN: 9780195337655 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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... 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 lover...
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165,35 |
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Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
ISBN: 9780226078090 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them.
David J. Buch reveals that despite--and perhaps even because of--their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French,... Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tens...
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281,82 |
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Ancient Rome in Early Opera
ISBN: 9780252033780 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The major historians of ancient Rome wrote their works in the firm belief that the exalted history of the Roman Empire provided plentiful lessons about individual behavior, inspiration for great souls, and warnings against evil ambitions, not to mention opportunities for rich comedy. The examples of Rome have often been resurrected for the opera stage to display the exceptional grandeur, glory, and tragedy of Roman figures. In this volume, Robert C. Ketterer tracks the changes as operas' Roman subjects crossed generations and national boundaries. Following opera from its origins in... The major historians of ancient Rome wrote their works in the firm belief that the exalted history of the Roman Empire provided plentiful lessons a... |
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175,25 |
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Tonality as Drama
ISBN: 9781574412499 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you are "in the business," or you are a music theorist, musicologist, or simply an opera fan--read on This is an analytical monograph by a Schenkerian music theorist, but it is also written by one performer and enthusiast for another." Tonality as Drama" draws on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology to answer a fundamental question regarding twentieth-century music: why does the use of tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres? Combining the analytical approaches of the leading music and dramatic theorists of the...
Whether you are "in the business," or you are a music theorist, musicologist, or simply an opera fan--read on This is an analytical monograph by a Sc...
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165,50 |
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Drama of Opera: Exotic and Irrational Entertainment
ISBN: 9781903900499 / Angielski / Twarda / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the drama that takes place within the world of opera and provides an insight into how opera has evolved and functions. Describing the various ways that composers use the language of music and liaise with their librettists, this work also touches on the functions everyone involved with an opera, including conductors, producers, designers, repetiteurs, the chorus and orchestra, singers, understudies, and the prompter. Training, the audition process, competitions, and the rehearsal schedule are covered as well as a look at how opera has adapted to changing social conditions...
This book is about the drama that takes place within the world of opera and provides an insight into how opera has evolved and functions. Describing t...
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538,02 |
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Drama of Opera : Exotic and Irrational Entertainment
ISBN: 9781903900505 / Angielski / Miękka / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the drama that takes place within the world of opera and provides an insight into how opera has evolved and functions. Describing the various ways that composers use the language of music and liaise with their librettists, this work also touches on the functions everyone involved with an opera, including conductors, producers, designers, repetiteurs, the chorus and orchestra, singers, understudies, and the prompter. Training, the audition process, competitions, and the rehearsal schedule are covered as well as a look at how opera has adapted to changing social conditions...
This book is about the drama that takes place within the world of opera and provides an insight into how opera has evolved and functions. Describing t...
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132,97 |
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Johann Strauss and Vienna
ISBN: 9780521771214 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety during this period. Camille Crittenden provides an overview of Viennese operetta, then takes Strauss' works as a series of case studies in the interaction between stage works and audience. The book also examines Strauss' role as national icon during his lifetime and throughout the twentieth century.
The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, V...
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504,36 |
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Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London: The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance
ISBN: 9780521800129 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analyzed for the first time, Ian Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and the role of women in opera management. These key topics are also placed within the context of a dispute between two of the most important managers of the day, Frances Brooke and David Garrick, and the major venues of the time: the King's Theatre and its rivals Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analyzed for the...
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508,97 |
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Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections
ISBN: 9780333639054 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses, journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees everywhere, this entertaining...
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large ...
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603,81 |
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Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections
ISBN: 9780333570128 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends, musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses, journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees everywhere, this entertaining...
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that instantly won a large ...
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666,07 |
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Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy's La Juive
ISBN: 9780521650861 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist, Eugene Scribe, and conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy. Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera within the context of French social and cultural history. The book addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance, Jewish-Christian conflict, and also considers the portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary stereotypes and contradictory, antisemitic...
This is the first critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) a powerful and successful work by the leadi...
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490,52 |
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Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer
ISBN: 9780521582858 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook provides an in-depth account of the origins, style, and performance history of Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman), universally acknowledged as Wagner's first truly significant, original work. Designed for scholars, performers and the opera-going public, the book examines the biographical impulses behind the opera's conception, its place in the composer's career, its literary sources and production history. There is also a detailed survey of how generations of performers have interpreted the musical score. Rare pictures from important and influential productions...
This handbook provides an in-depth account of the origins, style, and performance history of Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman), universall...
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366,01 |
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Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia
ISBN: 9780521250733 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1847 Wagner read the Oresteian trilogy, the finest surviving work by Aeschylus. The impact on him of Aeschylus' work, at this crucial time in his development, changed Wagner's entire vision of his own role as an artist. As he wrote in his autobiography: 'I could actually see the Oresteia with my mind's eye, as though it were actually being performed and its effect on me was indescribable. My ideas about the significance of drama and of the theatre were, without a doubt, moulded by these impressions ' Wagner and Aeschylus examines the role that the Oresteia played in the shaping of the...
In 1847 Wagner read the Oresteian trilogy, the finest surviving work by Aeschylus. The impact on him of Aeschylus' work, at this crucial time in his d...
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439,79 |
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Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner's Ring
ISBN: 9780754653561 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's 'Ring' through an attention to this text and drama, the multifarious intellectual influences upon the composer during the work's lengthy gestation and composition. It considers Wagner's treat
Explores the political and religious ideas expounded in Wagner's 'Ring' through an attention to this text and drama, the multifarious intellectual inf...
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754,51 |
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Opera and the Culture of Fascism
ISBN: 9780198165668 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.
Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as...
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cena:
870,98 |
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