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The UK's biggest-selling classical artist reveals how her angelic
voice has shot her to superstardom... Katherine Jenkins is an
international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre:
she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young
and old with her incredible voice, her glamorous looks and, above
all, her love for music, her country and her fans. Born in Neath,
South Wales, Katherine won national acclaim as the BBC Welsh
Choirgirl of the year and soon after a place at the Royal Academy
of Music. Auditioning for a terrifying panel of industry experts at
Universal Music she came away with the largest recording deal in
classical music history. And so began Katherine's meteoric rise to
stardom. TIME TO SAY HELLO is Katherine's incredible story. Packed
with laughter, adventure, heartbreak and music, it is the tale of a
dream coming true and one that will keep you gripped to the last
note ?
The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send
the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,
became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century. In
"Beggar's Opera," John Gay turned conventions of Italian opera
riotously upside-down, instead using traditional popular ballads
and street tunes, while also indulging in political satire at the
expense of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Gay's highly
original depiction of the thieves, informers, prostitutes and
highwaymen thronging the slums and prisons of the corrupt London
underworld proved brilliantly successful in exposing the dark side
of a corrupt and jaded society.
In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors
Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to
performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on
examples from twenty-four operas ranging in period from Gluck and
Mozart to Britten and Tippett, it illustrates exactly how opera
functions as dramatic form. Grounded in close analyses of
performances of thirty scenes and five whole operas by first-rate
singers and celebrated directors, Performing Opera provides readers
with an appreciation of the unique challenges and skills required
by performers and directors. It will assist them in their own
performance and equip them with detailed knowledge of works most
commonly featured in the repertoire. In the first part of the book
the analysis progresses from scenes in which the singers are
silent, via arias and monologues, duets and confrontations, up to
ensembles. Wider issues are subsequently addressed: encounters with
offstage events, encounters with the numinous, characterization,
and the sense of inevitability in tragic opera.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Allessandro
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Friedrich Chrysander; George Frideric Handel
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Title: Alessandro, HWV 21 Composer: George Frideric Handel Original
Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete orchestral
score to Handel's Alessandro (HWV 21) as edited by Friedrich
Chrysander and originally published as part of the Deutsche
Handelgesellschaft (Band 72) in 1877. Performer's Reprints are
produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library
Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we
clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age
of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage,
or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to
improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired.
A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts
organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage
audience growth."
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Poro
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Friedrich Chrysander; George Frideric Handel
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R305
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Title: Poro, re dell'Indie, HWV 28 Composer: George Frideric Handel
Original Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete score
to Handel's Poro, re dell'Indie, HWV 28, as edited by Friedrich
Chrysander and originally published as part of the Deutsche
Handelgesellschaft, Band 79, in 1880. Performer's Reprints are
produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library
Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we
clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age
of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage,
or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to
improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired.
A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts
organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage
audience growth."
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Ariodante
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Friedrich Chrysander; George Frideric Handel
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R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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Title: Ariodante, HWV 33 Composer: George Frideric Handel Original
Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete score to
Handel's Ariodante, HWV 33, as edited by Friedrich Chrysander and
published as part of the Deutsche Handelgesellschaft, Band 85, in
1881. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the
International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print
or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and
digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may
find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do
extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some
items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is
donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for
performers and to encourage audience growth."
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Admeto
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Friedrich Chrysander; George Frideric Handel
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R322
Discovery Miles 3 220
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Title: Admeto, HWV 22 Composer: George Frideric Handel Original
Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete orchestral
score to Handel's Admeto, HWV 22, as edited by Friedrich Chrysander
and published as part of the Deutsche Handelgesellschaft, Band 73,
in 1877. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the
International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print
or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and
digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may
find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do
extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some
items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is
donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for
performers and to encourage audience growth."
In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority
Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and
the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status
of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done
much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the
years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible,
insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship,
acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's
life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his
political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of
communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music
itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well
as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of
the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string
quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms
current in Verdi's time.
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Teseo
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Friedrich Chrysander; George Frideric Handel
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R301
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Title: Teseo, HWV 9 Composer: George Frideric Handel Original
Publisher: Deutsche Handelgesellschaft The complete score to
Handel's Teseo as edited by Friedrich Chrysander and published as
part of the Deutsche Handelgesellschaft, Band 60, in 1874.
Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the
International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print
or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and
digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may
find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do
extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some
items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is
donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for
performers and to encourage audience growth.
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