Singers Of Italian Opera

Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521426979

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Singers of Italian Opera by John Rosselli Pdf

Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.

Author : Sara Gamarro
Publisher : Rugginenti Editore
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9788876652615

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Cantare Italiano - The Language of Opera by Sara Gamarro Pdf

This book is a complete guide to the magic spells that the lyric diction of Italian Opera has cast on its audience for the last four hundred years, revealed and explained in their secrets by the author through an exact method of study whose effectiveness has been proven, over more than a decade of coaching activity, on her many students - Opera stars included - all over the world.

Author : Dorothea Link
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252053658

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The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna by Dorothea Link Pdf

Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.

Author : Tito Gobbi
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009442651

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Tito Gobbi on His World of Italian Opera by Tito Gobbi Pdf

Author : Philip Gossett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226304885

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Divas and Scholars by Philip Gossett Pdf

Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190247942

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Understanding Italian Opera by Tim Carter Pdf

"Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohaeme"--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Danièle Pistone
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015034415649

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Nineteenth-century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini by Danièle Pistone Pdf

Intended for the performer and general music lover as well as for students and musicologists, this three-part retrospective of Italian opera of the romantic era focuses on the settings, characters, and styles of the librettos; the voices, orchestration, and formal structure of the music; and the contemporary exigencies of the performance itself, moving from behind-the-scenes administration and artistry to the front-and-center interpreters and the audiences they played to. More than 120 musical examples support the text, the majority of them in an alphabetical appendix of "Famous Melodies", which includes the themes of popular arias along with captions detailing the operas, the composers, the acts in which the melodies occur, and the characters who sing them. The book also includes appendices of main characters, celebrated singers and conductors, and principal librettists; a glossary; and a note on Italian pronunciation. Numerous illustrations and tables, an exhaustive topical bibliography, and a select, current CD discography round out this informative introduction to opera's golden age.

Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521257328

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The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi by John Rosselli Pdf

Author : Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108843867

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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective by Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl Pdf

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.

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139789066

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Opera in the Age of Rousseau by David Charlton Pdf

Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's origins and influences in the 1740s and goes on to use past and present research to create a new structural model that explains the elements of reform in Gluck's tragédies for Paris. Charlton's book opens many new perspectives on the musical practices and politics of the period, including the Querelle des Bouffons. It gives the first detailed account of intermezzi and opere buffe performed by Eustachio Bambini's troupe at the Paris Opéra from August 1752 to February 1754 and discusses Rameau's comedies Platée and Les Paladins and their origins.

Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0282660089

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Opera Singers by Gustav Kobbé Pdf

Excerpt from Opera Singers: A Pictorial Souvenir, With Biographies of Some of the Most Famous Singers of the Day The manner in which Mr. Conried came to engage Caruso is most interest ing. When he became Grau's successor he made up his mind that the time was ripe for a revival Of interest in Italian opera. But where was the tenor for the experiment. It must be remembered that Conried had not been an impresario, but an actor, and after that the manager of a German stock theatre. It is an actual fact that even Caruso's name was unknown to him. So he began his search for a tenor, and mark how cleverly he went about the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521088356

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Essays on Handel and Italian Opera by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.

Author : Audrey T Carpenter
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788038805

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Giovanna Sestini by Audrey T Carpenter Pdf

The first-ever biography of this almost forgotten eighteenth century star. How a girl from Italy became London’s “most enchanting comic actress.” Giovanna Sestini’s important contribution to opera has been revived in this carefully researched biography. This book describes her Italian and Portuguese background, while providing considerable insight into the contemporary opera scene and social history of 18th century London. In her private family life she was Joanna Stocqueler, mother of eight children, while as Giovanna Sestini she was a renowned and attractive opera singer. Her talents were publicised until her retirement in 1792, when both her voice and the London theatres were in decline. The book offers a full description of her life, including her early performances in Italy and Portugal, her marriage to Portuguese aristocrat José Christiano Stocqueler, and the fate of her children. After her move to London she was acclaimed both in Italian comic opera at the King’s Theatre and in English opera at Covent Garden. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in the arts, opera and eighteenth-century history. It includes 18 illustrations and a full bibliography and index.

Author : W. J. Henderson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547360568

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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Some Forerunners of Italian Opera" by W. J. Henderson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Rodolfo Celletti
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054354595

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A History of Bel Canto by Rodolfo Celletti Pdf

This history of bel canto singing in Italian opera of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries includes a discussion of the style's links to the operatic ideals of the Baroque, the role of the singers in the style's development, the evolution of the style in various composers' works, a chapter on the Castrato, and a look at bel canto since Rossini.