Sex Drugs Opera

Author : Roland Orzabal
Publisher : Crucial 7th Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1909122718

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Sex, Drugs & Opera by Roland Orzabal Pdf

Solomon Capri is a semi-retired pop star who appears to be settling contentedly into middle-age. With his gorgeous, successful wife, Jenny, his country pile, and gold discs hanging in his plush bathroom, he seems to have it all. But all is not well between Jenny and Solomon; as her business continues to grow, her affection for her husband begins to diminish, and soon divorce is on the cards. To try and win Jenny back, Solomon throws his bruised heart into trying out for a reality TV show that turns lapsed pop acts into opera singers. The ace up his sleeve is an eccentric octogenarian opera coach he employs to get ahead of the competition but, to his surprise, Solomon learns far more than how to improve the quality of his vibrato; especially when his coach asks Solomon to duet with newly single Samantha... Sex, Drugs & Opera is the debut novel of Tears for Fears musician, Roland Orzabal.

Author : Margaret Cormier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472903634

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Rape at the Opera by Margaret Cormier Pdf

The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera, Margaret Cormier argues that production and performance are vital elements of opera, and that contemporary opera practitioners not only interpret but create operatic works when they put them onstage. Where some directors explicitly respond to contemporary dialogues about sexual violence, others utilize sexual violence as a surefire way to titillate, to shock, and to generate press for a new production. Drawing on archival footage as well as attendance at live events, Cormier analyzes productions of canonic operas from German, Italian, and French traditions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, La forza del destino, Un ballo in maschera, Salome, and Turandot. In doing so, Cormier highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes methods to evaluate representations of sexual violence on the opera stage, and reframes the primary responsibility of opera critics and creators as being not to opera composers and librettists but to the public.

Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481497510

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Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Pdf

2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.

Author : Gyles Lingwood,Mark Shaw
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529420258

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Copywriting Third Edition by Gyles Lingwood,Mark Shaw Pdf

An inspiring and essential book for everyone interested in improving the way they write. - Brian Minards, School of Advertising, Academy of Art University, San Francisco Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However, there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This revised edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media, branding, advertising, direct marketing, retailing, catalogues, company magazines and internal communications, and aspects of writing for social media are integrated throughout. There are also new interviews and case studies. Using a series of exercises and up-to-date illustrated examples of award-winning campaigns and communication, *Copywriting, Third Edition takes you through step-by-step processes that can help you to write content quickly and effectively.

Author : Mike Doughty
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306820502

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The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty Pdf

Recounts the addiction and recovery of the world-renowned solo artist and former lead singer and songwriter of Soul Coughing.

Author : Scott Miller
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals by Scott Miller Pdf

An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America's changing mores

Author : Freya North
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007462247

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Cat by Freya North Pdf

NEW on ebook for the first time with NEW author afterword.She’s in for the ride of her life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Opera
ISBN : UCSD:31822034963413

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Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott Miller
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781555537616

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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and Musicals by Scott Miller Pdf

An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America's changing mores

Author : Blair Tindall
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781555847463

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Mozart in the Jungle by Blair Tindall Pdf

The memoir that inspired the two-time Golden Globe Award–winning comedy series: “Funny . . . heartbreaking . . . [and] utterly absorbing” (Lee Smith, New York Times–bestselling author of Guests on Earth). Oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, where musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow journeymen musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hungover, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions—working-class musicians who schlep across the city between low-paying gigs, without health-care benefits or retirement plans, a stark contrast to the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars. An incisive, no-holds-barred account, Mozart in the Jungle is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the orchestra pit. The book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Lola Kirke, this is “a fresh, highly readable and caustic perspective on an overglamorized world” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Stew
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African American men
ISBN : 0822224003

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Passing Strange by Stew Pdf

"Stew brings us the story of a young bohemian who charts a course for 'the real' through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0743236017

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

Now in paperback after six hardback printings, the damn funny...wild collection of bracingly intelligent essays about topics that aren't quite as intelligent as Chuck Klosterman'(Esquire). Following the success of Fargo Rock City, Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine, is back with a hilarious and savvy manifesto for a youth gone wild on pop culture and media, taking on everything from Guns'n'Roses tribute bands to Christian fundamentalism to internet porn. 'Maddeningly smart and funny' - Washington Post'

Author : Sarah Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857717276

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Tales of Seduction by Sarah Wright Pdf

Don Juan is one of the most intriguing creations of Western literature, a perpetual source of fascination. In the popular imagination he exists as a legendary seducer of women, a trickster and transgressor of sacred boundaries. Crossing cultures from east to west, he has been the recipient of countless revisions, while the twentieth century has viewed the figure afresh through the prism of its own cultural terms of reference and social concerns. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Tales of Seduction focuses on the fascinating intersections between myth, culture and intellectual inquiry. Sarah Wright takes Don Juan back to Spain and examines the confluences of Spanish culture with aspects of Western intellectual history (such as medicine, psychoanalysis and linguistics), where she finds Don Juan continues to transgress the limits of culture until the present.

Author : Ricky Ian Gordon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374605728

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Seeing Through by Ricky Ian Gordon Pdf

The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos." At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to capture the depths of his emotion in song. It is this strength, this technical and visceral genius, that has made him one of our generation’s greatest composers. In Seeing Through, Gordon writes with humor, insight, and incredible candor about his life and work: a tumultuous youth on Long Island, his artistic collaborations and obsessions, the creation of his compositions (including The Grapes of Wrath, 27, Orpheus and Euridice, Intimate Apparel, Ellen West, and more), his addictions and the abuses he endured, and the loss of his partner to AIDS and the devastation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As Gordon writes of that period: “We were, thousands of us, Lazarus. We had to rise from the ashes. We didn’t have to rebuild our lives, we had to build new ones.” Gordon has succeeded in building a remarkable life, as well as a body of work that bears witness to all he survived in the process—one that will endure as a pivotal chapter in America's songbook.

Author : Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi,Austrian Composer Director and Writer Thomas Desi
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195099362

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The New Music Theater by Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi,Austrian Composer Director and Writer Thomas Desi Pdf

"The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book, written for the reader who comes from the contemporary worlds of music, theater, film, literature, and visual arts, provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves but of the concepts, ideas and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world."--BOOK JACKET.