Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 310 p.: musical examples. The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 336 p. — (Cambridge Companion). — ISBN10: 0521635357. Providing biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, this Companion examines important general aspects of their style and method of composition. Verdi's milieu, creative process, and critical reception are subsequently explored in essays by specialists who...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. — 468 p. This is the story of the development of a form of entertainment that is neither pure music nor pure drama. Opera is a hybrid, but a hybrid with so much glamour that it annually draws millions to the box office and tens of millions to the radio. The authors have written in the belief that this glamour is not produced solely by the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 300 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera ). At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 344 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the opera/film encounter. Case studies of a diverse array of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 417 p. — (Cambridge Companion). — ISBN10: 0521783933, 0521780098. Celebrating the extraordinary diversity of operatic achievements in the twentieth century, this Companion brings together the work of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Beginning with a survey of operatic legacies, the volume analyzes regional styles and aesthetic...
The Boydell Press, 2006. — 587 p. Handel ranks with Monteverdi, Mozart and Verdi among the supreme masters of opera, yet between 1754 (when Handel was still living) and 1920 not one of his operas was performed anywhere. Their revival in the modern theatre has been among the most remarkable phenomena in the history of the art. But they are still too little understood, or...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 314 p. — (Cambridge Companion). — ISBN: 0521695384. Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to...
Miami: Opera Journeys Publishing, 2005. — 426 p. The history of modern opera is as rich and varied as the thousands of operas composed during the last 400 years.This text is intended to explore those significant moments in opera history when innovations and transformations altered the course of opera history. Essentially, the text answers the following questions: Who was the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 399 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this evolutionary...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 272 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'. The operas were translated into English, fitted with...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 358 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 320 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Cosi fan tutte is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera with Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Edmund Goehring presents a new perspective on the relationships between text and tone in the opera, the tension between comedy and philosophy as well as its representation in stage works, and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera ). Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 440 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century,...
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2000. — 254 p.: musical examples. Father Owen Lee is internationally known for his intermission commentaries featured during the Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne gathers together for the first time Father Lee's best broadcast and...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 325 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's...
Milano: R. Stabilimento Ricordi, 1883. — 68 p. Il teatro alla moda è un libello satirico dove il suo autore, il compositore veneziano Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739), sfoga le proprie opinioni critiche sull'ambiente dell'opera seria italiana dei primi due decenni del XVIII secolo. Fu pubblicato anonimamente a Venezia verso la fine del 1720. Quasi tutti gli aspetti dell'opera...
Indiana University Press, 2003. — 268 p. Introduction: Inventing German Opera The Native and the Foreign: Models for the German Opera Der Freischutz and the Character of the Nation Euryante: Reconfiguration and Transformation Epilogue: Institutions, Aesthetics, and Genre after Weber's Death Appendix: Synopsis of Das Unterbrochene Opferfest Appendix: Comparative Table: Version...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 298 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines...
Paris: Premières Loges, 2000. — 261 p. — (Collection: Avant-Scene Opéra). — ISBN: 2-84385-194-7. L'opéra, soit on est tombé dans la marmite enfant, seul, poussé par un inexplicable instinct, ou contaminé par un membre de sa famille ; soit la découverte, plus tardive, demande d'être accompagnée. Comme pour l'apprentissage des langues, passé un certain âge, il devient difficile...
Chicago:The University of Chicago Press, 1998. — 671 p. Many know Antonio Salieri only as Mozart's envious nemesis from the film Amadeus. In this well-illustrated work, John A. Rice shows us what a rich musical and personal history this popular stereotype has missed. Bringing Salieri, his operas, and eighteenth-century Viennese theater vividly to life, Rice places Salieri where...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 224 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there, he began his relationship with...
Helsinki: Sibelius Academy, 2012. — 298 p. — (Docmus Research Publications 4). — ISBN: 978-952-5959-45-1 The purpose of this anthology is to foster a new understanding of opera as a cultural practice in the Nordic countries during the 19th century. Methodological transnationalism forms a strong undercurrent here, directing interest towards the European operatic tradition and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 387 p. — (Cambridge Companion). — ISBN10: 0521671698, 0521855616. A delightful way to learn more about the history of opera. Perfect for the opera-goer who has everything! Review "In both the clarity of its organization and the uniformly high standard of the individual essays, this is an outstanding collection." The Times Literary Supplement...
Winnipeg: Manitoba Opera. 2011. — 42 p. We’re very pleased that you have decided to bring your students to Tosca. We appreciate both your interest in this wonderful art form and your willingness to expose students to opera and thank you for that. This Study Guide has been created to assist you in preparing your students for their visit to the opera. It is our hope that you will...
Revised edition. — Routledge, 2003. — 502 p. This entertaining and thorough examination of operetta remains the only complete, richly-illustrated history available of a delightful form of musical theater which has enraptured audiences around the world for over a century. Coming at a time of renewed enthusiasm for operetta, Richard Traubner's timely volume shakes the dust off...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 335 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 355 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Opera). 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...
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