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Opera / by Riding, Alan.; Dunton-Downer, Leslie.;
Introducing opera -- What is opera? -- Librettos and librettists -- Staging opera -- Opera houses and festivals -- Idols of opera -- Monteverdi to Mozart, c. 1600-1800 -- Italian opera, c. 1800-1925 -- Germanic opera, c. 1800-1950 -- French opera, c. 1790-1900 -- Russian opera, c. 1830-1960 -- Czech opera, c.1860-1940 -- Modern opera, c. 1900-Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams.
Subjects: Opera.;
© 2006., DK Pub.,
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Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage / by Lindenberger, Herbert Samuel,1929-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-348) and index.Prelude: opera books -- Monteverdi, Caravaggio, Donne: modernity and early Baroque -- Handel and the poetics of Opera Seria -- Rossini, Shelley, and Italy in 1819 -- Opera among the arts--opera among institutions -- Wagner's Ring as nineteenth-century artifact -- Opera/orientalism/otherness -- Moses und Aron, Mahagonny, and Germany in 1930: seventeen entries -- Regulated anarchy: John Cage's Europeras 1&2 and the aesthetics of opera -- Finale: opera audiences.
Subjects: Opera.;
© 1998., Stanford University Press,
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A short history of opera / by Grout, Donald Jay.; Williams, Hermine Weigel.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 797-896) and index.Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth-century Italian opera in German-speaking lands -- Early German opera -- Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier -- Opera in England -- Masters of the early eighteenth century -- Opera seria : general characteristics -- Opera seria : the composers -- The operas of Gluck -- The comic opera of the eighteenth century -- The operas of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries -- The turn of the [nineteenth] century -- Grand opera -- Opéra comique, operetta, and lyric opera -- Italian opera of the primo ottacento : Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and their contemporaries -- The romantic opera in Germany -- The operas of Wagner -- The later nineteenth century : France, Italy, Germany, and Austria -- National traditions of opera -- Introduction [to opera of the twentieth century] ; Opera in France and Italy -- Opera in the German-speaking countries -- National opera in Russia and neighboring countries; central and eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America -- Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Opera in the United States -- Appendix : Chinese opera (Xiqu)."When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.""The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Subjects: Opera.;
© ©2003., Columbia University Press,
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A history of opera / by Abbate, Carolyn.; Parker, Roger,1951-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 568-597) and index.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--have shrunk to a tiny minority and have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire. Yet opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging.Opera's first centennial -- Opera seria -- Discipline -- Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty -- Singing and speaking before 1800 -- The German problem -- Rossini and transition -- The tenor comes of age -- Young Verdi -- Grand opera -- Young Wagner -- Opéra comique, the crucible -- Old Wagner -- Verdi--older still -- Realism and clamour -- Turning point -- Modern -- Speech -- Revenants in the museum -- We are alone in the forest.
Subjects: Opera; Opera.;
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Opera in America : a cultural history / by Dizikes, John,1932-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Opera; Operas History; United States;
© c1993., Yale University Press,
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The Wagner operas. by Newman, Ernest,1868-1959.;
Subjects: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.;
© 1968 [c1949], Knopf,
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A treasury of opera librettos / by Legerman, David G.,ed.;
Introduction / David G. Legerman -- AiÌda / Giuseppe Verdi -- The barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) / Gioacchino Antonio Rossini -- La BoheÌme / Giacomo Puccini -- Boris Godunov / Modest P. Moussorgsky -- Carmen / Georges Bizet -- Cavalleria rusticana / Pietro Mascagni -- CosiÌ fan tutte. Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Falstaff / Giuseppe Verdi -- Faust / Charles Gounod -- Madama Butterfly / Giacomo Puccini -- The magic flute (Die ZauberfloÌte) The marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Otello / Giuseppe Verde -- I pagliacci / Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Parsifal / Richard Wagner -- PelleÌas et MeÌlisande / Claude Debussy -- Rigoletto / Giuseppe Verdi -- Siegfried / Richard Wagner -- Tosca / Giacomo Puccini -- La traviata / Giuseppe Verdi.
Subjects: Operas;
© c1962., Doubleday,
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The phantom of the Opera / by Leroux, Gaston,1868-1927.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Musical fiction.; Horror fiction.; Phantom of the Opera (Fictitious character); Composers; Opera;
© 2001., Signet Classic,
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The phantom of the opera [electronic resource]. by Leroux, Gaston.;
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly. She achieves a singing position in the Paris Opera line, where a mysterious voice teaches her to unleash her musical potential. The voice belongs to Erik, a deformed musical genius who lives in the opera house. As Christine's singing career takes off, her childhood friend Raoul begins to court her, and he and Erik fight jealously for Christine's hand.Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1236 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 339 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1235 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 334 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Classic Literature.;
© 2012., Duke Classics,
On-line resources: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=202075&titleID=785043 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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The Simon and Schuster book of the opera : a complete chronological reference to opera from 1597 to the present / by Mezzanotte, Riccardo.cn;
Subjects: Opera; Opera; Operas;
© 1985, c1978., Simon and Schuster,
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