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Le Noces Di Figaro (French, Paperback): Van Hasselt Le Noces Di Figaro (French, Paperback)
Van Hasselt; W.A. Mozart
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Attila - Vocal score (Italian, Paperback, Reprint ed.): Giuseppe Verdi Attila - Vocal score (Italian, Paperback, Reprint ed.)
Giuseppe Verdi; Contributions by Luigi Truzzi; Libretto by Temistocle Solera
R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Rival Sirens - Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Paperback): Suzanne Aspden The Rival Sirens - Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage (Paperback)
Suzanne Aspden
R1,231 Discovery Miles 12 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

Alceste Ou Le Triomphe d'Alcide, Tragedie. Fontainebleau, Aoust 1677 (French, Paperback): Philippe Quinault Alceste Ou Le Triomphe d'Alcide, Tragedie. Fontainebleau, Aoust 1677 (French, Paperback)
Philippe Quinault
R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ariadne auf Naxos of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss (Paperback): Donald G. Daviau, George J. Buelow The Ariadne auf Naxos of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss (Paperback)
Donald G. Daviau, George J. Buelow
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. The unique collaboration of Hofmannsthal and Strauss is examined and the classical myths that served as a basis for the libretto are investigated. The detailed analysis and interpretation of both the text and the music demonstrate that this work is epochal in the history of early nineteenth-century opera and commands central importance in the overall production of its authors.

Le Nozze Di Figaro - Die Hochzeit des Figaro (Italian, Paperback): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le Nozze Di Figaro - Die Hochzeit des Figaro (Italian, Paperback)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture (Paperback): Laurence Senelick Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture (Paperback)
Laurence Senelick
R1,307 Discovery Miles 13 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.

Les contes d'Hoffmann - Tales of Hoffmann: opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue (Paperback): Jacques Offenbach,... Les contes d'Hoffmann - Tales of Hoffmann: opera in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue (Paperback)
Jacques Offenbach, Jules Barbier
R1,068 Discovery Miles 10 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mozart in Vienna - The Final Decade (Paperback): Simon P. Keefe Mozart in Vienna - The Final Decade (Paperback)
Simon P. Keefe
R1,088 R917 Discovery Miles 9 170 Save R171 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (1781-1791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a performer and composer and reveals how his compositional processes are affected by performance-related concerns. It traces consistencies and changes in Mozart's professional persona and his modus operandi and sheds light on other prominent musicians, audience expectations, publishing, and concert and dramatic practices and traditions. Giving particular prominence to primary sources, Simon P. Keefe offers new biographical and critical perspectives on the man and his music, highlighting his extraordinary ability to engage with the competing demands of singers and instrumentalists, publishing and public performance, and concerts and dramatic productions in the course of a hectic, diverse and financially uncertain freelance career. This comprehensive and accessible volume is essential for Mozart lovers and scholars alike, exploring his Viennese masterpieces and the people and environments that shaped them.

The Murder of Figaro (Paperback): Susan Larson The Murder of Figaro (Paperback)
Susan Larson
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Paperback): Nancy Yunhwa Rao Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Paperback)
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
R768 Discovery Miles 7 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre-World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.

Belisario - Tragedia Lirica In Tre Parti... (Italian, Hardcover): Gaetano Donizetti, Salvatore Cammarano Belisario - Tragedia Lirica In Tre Parti... (Italian, Hardcover)
Gaetano Donizetti, Salvatore Cammarano
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (Paperback): Nicholas Vazsonyi The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (Paperback)
Nicholas Vazsonyi
R1,649 Discovery Miles 16 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From 'absolute music' to 'Zurich' and from 'Theodor Adorno' to 'Hermann Zumpe', the vividly-written entries of The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia have been contributed by recognized authorities and cover a comprehensive range of topics. More than eighty scholars from around the world, representing disciplines from history and philosophy to film studies and medicine, provide fascinating insights into Wagner's life, career and influence. Multiple appendices include listings of Wagner's works, historic productions, recordings and addresses where he lived, to round out a volume that will be an essential and reliable resource for enthusiasts and academics alike.

Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera (Hardcover, New edition): Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska Shakespeare in 19th-Century Opera (Hardcover, New edition)
Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska
R2,313 Discovery Miles 23 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini's Otello, Halevy's The Tempest, Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Thomas's Hamlet. The study aims to indicate diverse traces of the Romantic interpretation of Shakespeare's works in the history of the 19th-century opera. Individual chapters present the librettos of the selected operas, analysed in the context of Shakespeare's plays and their 19th-century reception, reconstructed on the basis of 19th-century historic-literary texts (of, among others, A. W. Schlegel, L. Tieck and V. Hugo), critical studies and press articles. The analyses conducted in the book succeed in presenting the evolution of the phenomenon of Romantic Shakespeareanism in the 19th-century opera theatre.

M d e (French, Paperback): Thomas Corneille M d e (French, Paperback)
Thomas Corneille
R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Der Freischutz (Grossdruck) - Libretto der Oper von Carl Maria von Weber (German, Paperback): Johann Friedrich Kind Der Freischutz (Grossdruck) - Libretto der Oper von Carl Maria von Weber (German, Paperback)
Johann Friedrich Kind
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mozart Anthology - Arrangements for two pianos & piano, four-hands (Paperback): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Greg Anderson The Mozart Anthology - Arrangements for two pianos & piano, four-hands (Paperback)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Greg Anderson
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nabucodonosor - Dramma Sacro In Quattro Parti... (Spanish, Paperback): Giuseppe Verdi Nabucodonosor - Dramma Sacro In Quattro Parti... (Spanish, Paperback)
Giuseppe Verdi
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rip, Opera-Comique En 4 Actes Et 7 Tableaux (French, Paperback): Henri Meilhac Rip, Opera-Comique En 4 Actes Et 7 Tableaux (French, Paperback)
Henri Meilhac
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Il concerto perfetto (Italian, Paperback): Daniele Panteghini Il concerto perfetto (Italian, Paperback)
Daniele Panteghini
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche (Paperback): Brayton Polka Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche (Paperback)
Brayton Polka
R1,573 Discovery Miles 15 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche analyzes the operas and writings of Wagner in order to prove that the ideas on which they are based contradict and falsify the values that are fundamental to modernity. This book also analyzes the ideas that are central to the philosophy of Nietzsche, demonstrating that the values on the basis of which he breaks with Wagner and repudiates their common mentor, Schopenhauer, are those fundamental to modernity. Brayton Polka makes use of the critical distinction that Kierkegaard draws between Christianity and Christendom. Christianity represents what Nietzsche calls the faith that is presupposed in unconditionally willing the truth in saying yes to life. Christendom, in contrast, represents the bad faith of nihilism in saying no to life. Polka then shows that Wagner, in following Schopenhauer, represents Christendom with the demonstration in his operas that life is nothing but death and death is nothing but life. In other words, the purpose of the will for Wagner is to annihilate the will, since it is only in and through death that human beings are liberated from life as willfully sinful. Nietzsche, in contrast, is consistent with the biblical concept that existence is created from nothing, from nothing that is not made in the image of God, that any claim that the will can will not to will is contradictory and hence false. For not to will is, in truth, still to will nothing. There is then, Nietzsche shows, no escape from the will. Either human beings will the truth in saying yes to life as created from nothing, or in truly willing nothing, they say no to life in worshiping the God of Christendom who is dead.

Mozart's Operas: A Companion (Paperback): Mary Hunter Mozart's Operas: A Companion (Paperback)
Mary Hunter
R1,449 Discovery Miles 14 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible, this is the best Mozart opera guide available This wise and friendly guide to Mozart's operas encompasses the full range of his most popular works-Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi, Magic Flute, Seraglio, Clemenza di Tito-as well as lesser known works like Mitridate and Il re Pastore. Music historian Mary Hunter provides a lively introduction to each opera for any listener who has enjoyed a performance, either on the stage or in a video recording, and who wishes to understand the opera more fully. The Companion includes a synopsis and commentary on each work, as well as background information on the three main genres in which Mozart wrote: opera seria, opera buffa, and Singspiel. An essay on the "anatomy" of a Mozart opera points out the musical conventions with which the composer worked and suggests nontechnical ways to think about his musical choices. The book also places modern productions of the operas in historical context and explores how modern directors, producers, and conductors present Mozart's works today. Filled with factual information and interesting issues to ponder while watching a performance, this guide will appeal to newcomers and seasoned opera aficionados alike.

Technology and the Diva - Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age (Paperback): Karen Henson Technology and the Diva - Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age (Paperback)
Karen Henson
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s to the twenty-first-century digital age. The authors pay particular attention to the soprano in her larger than life form, as the 'diva', and they consider how her voice and allure have been created by technologies and media including stagecraft and theatrical lighting, journalism, the telephone, sound recording, and visual media from the painted portrait to the high definition simulcast. In doing so, the authors experiment with new approaches to the female singer, to opera in the modern - and post-modern - eras, and to the often controversial subject of opera's involvement with technology and technological innovation.

Opera Acts - Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century (Paperback): Karen Henson Opera Acts - Singers and Performance in the Late Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Karen Henson
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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, Celestine Galli-Marie; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.

Handel on the Stage (Paperback): David Kimbell Handel on the Stage (Paperback)
David Kimbell
R1,166 Discovery Miles 11 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of all the great composers of the eighteenth century, Handel was the supreme cosmopolitan, an early and extraordinarily successful example of a freelance composer. For thirty years the opera-house was the principal focus of his creative work and he composed more than forty operas over this period. In this book, David Kimbell sets Handel's operas in their biographical and cultural contexts. He explores the circumstances in which they were composed and performed, the librettos that were prepared for Handel, and what they tell us about his and his audience's values and the music he composed for them. Remarkably no Handel operas were staged for a period of 170 years between 1754 and the 1920s. The final chapter in this book reveals the differences and similarities between how Handel's operas were performed in his time and ours.

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