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1) Opera news
Publisher
Metropolitan Opera Guild]
Pub. Date
1936
Physical Desc
v. ill. 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This reissue of Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is the first title in The Haunted Library, a new horror classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks. The award-winning musical based on Leroux's work is world-famous, but many people are unaware that the show was inspired by a novel, originally published in a serialized form. The Phantom of the Opera is a timeless piece of gothic...
Author
Series
Teixcalaan volume 1
Language
English
Description
"During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die. Now Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue...
Author
Publisher
For Beginners
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
167 pages illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Irreverent and passionate, this book is an ideal introduction for people who are convinced that opera is soley for those refined few who were born listening to arias. Written in short, humorous, and informative chapters, and laced with some of the opera world's juiciest anecdotes, this guide is sure to convert even the most ambivalent of music lovers. Line drawings.
8) Acqua alta
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Venetian detective Guido Brunetti swings into action when the curator of Venice's most prestigious museum turns up dead, bludgeoned by a priceless artifact, and an American archaeologist and close friend narrowly escapes the killer.
9) Mad scenes and exit arias: the death of the New York City Opera and the future of opera in America
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it means for the future of the arts.--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxxii, 477 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Politics of Opera" takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and an array of music by such greats as Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics--through story lines, symbols,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 603 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A bold, engaging exploration of opera's fundamental nature and enduring appeal, from the sixteenth century to the present. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political, and literary backgrounds, its economic circumstances, and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. The authors examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works-- once opera's lifeblood--...
Author
Publisher
The Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
16 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby processed + 4 booklets.
Language
English
Description
To watch any opera lover listen to a favorite work, eyes clenched tight in concentration and passion, often betraying a tear, is to be almost envious. What must it be like, you might think, to love a piece of music so much? And now one of music's most gifted teachers is offering you the opportunity to answer that very question, in a spellbinding series of 32 lectures that will introduce you to the transcendentally beautiful performing art that has...
14) The opera
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Co
Pub. Date
[1972]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen and La Boheme, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years. Musician and critic Vivien Schweitzer...
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
©1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 689 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ticket to the Opera offers a complete operatic education, including history, definitions of key musical terms, opera lore and gossip, and portraits of famous singers and the roles they immortalized, as well as pithy introductions to the greatest operas of Europe and America and their composers. The book's centerpiece is what Phil Goulding terms "the collection"--85 classics, among them Aida, The Marriage of Figaro, Carmen, and Madame Butterfly, that...
18) Opera
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
432 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
19) Opera
Author
Series
Publisher
NTC Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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