Nine Famous Operas

Nine Famous Operas
Author: Iris J. Arnesen
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0786460067

This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine operas, presented in chronological order from 1791 to 1928. These great works are most readily approached with an understanding of the conventions of the several operatic genres as well as the social conditions that influenced the composers and librettists. The popular and intellectual movements that influenced the operas and the original source material are also discussed. The operas are Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Strauss' Salome, and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

Opera

Opera
Author: Franklin Mesa
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1476605378

This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

Nine

Nine
Author: Maury Yeston
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1983
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573681578

In early-1960s Venice, film director Guido Contini is savoring his most recent (and greatest) success but, facing his fortieth birthday,a midlife crisis is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties.

The Evolution of Opera Theatre in the Middle East and North Africa

The Evolution of Opera Theatre in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Paolo Petrocelli
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1527539784

This book is the first structured and complete research work undertaken on opera theatres across the entire Middle East and North Africa. Until now, no single study has looked at every theatrical and musical institute in these countries. Many of the opera theatres that are examined here have had very little written about them at all. This work fills this void in order to provide scholars and practitioners in the sector with the first reference work on the subject that will help our understanding of the evolutionary process that has led—and continues to lead—all the countries in the MENA region to equip themselves with an opera theatre.

Opera in the Age of Rousseau

Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521887607

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Puccini's Turandot

Puccini's Turandot
Author: William Ashbrook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-12-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1400866677

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
Author: Axel Körner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108843867

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.

Complete Opera Book

Complete Opera Book
Author: George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood, Earl of
Publisher: London : Putnam
Total Pages: 1262
Release: 1956
Genre:
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Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1997-11-27
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521572392

This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.