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Author : Arthur Jacobs,Stanley Sadie
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : 0879100443
Biographical sketches of the composers and critical interpretations of their productions accompany these summaries of eighty-seven famous operas
Author : David Hamilton,William E. Studwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135773298
First Published in 1990. Information about individual operas and other types of musical theater is scattered throughout the enormous literature of music. This book is an effort to bring that data together by comprehensively indexing plots and descriptions of individual operatic background, criticism and analysis, musical themes and bibliographical references. The principal audience for this general reference guide will be for the non-specialist, but its hoped that persons specialising in opera would also find it useful.
Author : M. Owen Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Opera
ISBN : 9780195106497
Millions of music lovers have heard the moving words of Father Owen Lee during the first intermissions of the Saturday afternoon operas broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His illuminating, intensely personal, immediately accessible half hours on the air have brought grateful letters from all parts of the United States, Canada, and Europe, from both first-time listeners and veterans of fifty years of Met broadcast listening. Now, First Intermissions makes available twenty-one of Father Lee's finest radio talks, analyses of some of the best loved operas in the repertoire, including masterworks by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Strauss.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135578008
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Author : Joseph Rescigno
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574418040
Conducting Opera discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. It focuses on Joseph Rescigno’s approach to preparing and performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion of music and drama resulting in a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. Opening with a chapter discussing his performance philosophy, Rescigno then covers Mozart’s most-performed operas, standards of the bel canto school including Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, five of Verdi’s works including La traviata, a selection of Wagner’s compositions followed by French Romantic operas such as Bizet’s Carmen, Puccini’s major works, and finally four operas by Richard Strauss. A useful appendix contains a convenient guide to the scores available online. Conducting Opera includes practical advice about propelling a story forward and bringing out the drama that the music is meant to supply, as well as how to support singers in their most difficult moments. Rescigno identifies particularly problematic passages and supplies suggestions about how to navigate them. In addition, he provides advice on staying true to the several styles under discussion.
Author : Jordan Schildcrout
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472052325
The “villainous homosexual” has long stalked America’s cultural imagination, most explicitly in the figure of the queer murderer, a character in dozens of plays. But as society’s understanding of homosexuality has changed, so has the significance of these controversial characters, especially when employed by LGBT theater artists themselves to explore darker fears and desires. Murder Most Queer examines the shifting meanings of murderous LGBT characters in American theater over a century, showing how these representations wrestle with and ultimately subvert notions of gay villainy. Murder Most Queer works to expose the forces that create the homophobic paradigm that imagines sexual and gender nonconformity as dangerous and destructive and to show how theater artists—and for the most part LGBT theater artists—have rewritten and radically altered the significance of the homicidal homosexual. Jordan Schildcrout argues that these figures, far from being simple reiterations of a homophobic archetype, are complex and challenging characters who enact trenchant fantasies of empowerment, replacing the shame and stigma of the abject with the defiance and freedom of the outlaw, giving voice to rage and resistance. These bold characters also probe the darker anxieties and fears that can affect queer lives and relationships. Instead of sentencing them to the prison of negative representations, this book analyzes the meanings in their acts of murder, confronting the real fears and desires condensed in those dramatic acts.
Author : Kinneth Hollaway
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595521319
It came down on us like a brick wall. It hit my partner first and just took him. He flew backwards screaming-I couldn't help him, cause the flames were too hot. I just remember grabbing the radio and running. I turned around, and that wall of flames was right behind me. My mind stopped working, at that point. I knew that corridor like the back of my hand, so I followed suit twisting and turning so fast that the only thing I could hear were my breaths. They were so desperate, that I couldn't keep up with them. I heard someone shouting through the radio: "WE'VE GOTA CONTAINMENT TEAM ON THE " Then I heard static, and maybe some fire engines-then nothing. -My Second Life "Kinneth Hollaway jolts you into a black hole. The result is a wild ride; an exciting trip through the conquests of outrageous people!" -Dorian Murphy"Kinneth Hollaway's narrative fiction is ingenious! A novel not to be missed!" -Hua Nan"Emmanuelle is a wild edgy woman whose languid prose speaks an irresistible adventure." -Richard Anderson
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009716849
Author : Paula Thomson,Victoria S. Jaque
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780128041086
Creativity and the Performing Artist: Behind the Mask synthesizes and integrates research in the field of creativity and the performing arts. Within the performing arts there are multiple specific domains of expertise, with domain-specific demands. This book examines the psychological nature of creativity in the performing arts. The book is organized into five sections. Section I discusses different forms of performing arts, the domains and talents of performers, and the experience of creativity within performing artists. Section II explores the neurobiology of physiology of creativity and flow. Section III covers the developmental trajectory of performing artists, including early attachment, parenting, play theories, personality, motivation, and training. Section IV examines emotional regulation and psychopathology in performing artists. Section V closes with issues of burnout, injury, and rehabilitation in performing artists. Discusses domain specificity within the performing arts Encompasses dance, theatre, music, and comedy performance art Reviews the biology behind performance, from thinking to movement Identifies how an artist develops over time, from childhood through adult training Summarizes the effect of personality, mood, and psychopathology on performance Explores career concerns of performing artists, from injury to burn out
Author : Gustav Kobbé
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547155218
This is one of the most comprehensive books ever written about opera. Not only does it contain stories of operas but also music from some of the famous arias. It is so well regarded that it has been updated many times, the latest being 1997. Mr Kobbe, unfortunately, died in an accident before the book was finished, but it was finished posthumously and the indices and photographs arranged for him.
Author : Jack Sacher
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015040551510
The book's second part explores the relation of opera to the human condition.
Author : Central Opera Service (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009776991
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Opera
ISBN : UCSD:31822030977128
Author : Diane Negra,Su Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441176929
This timely collection explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary and historical media contexts. Amidst concerns about the apparent 'decline' in the currency of modern fame ('famous for being famous'), as well as debates about the shifting parameters of public/private visibility, it is female celebrities who are positioned as the most active discursive terrain. This collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies. It takes as its starting point the understanding that female celebrity is a particularly fraught cultural phenomenon with ideological and industrial implications that warrant careful scrutiny. In moving across case studies from the 19th century to the present day, this book works from the assumption that the case study should play a crucial role in generating debate about the dialogue between 'past' and 'present', and the individual essays seek to reflect this spirit of enquiry
Author : Charles H. Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X002714331
A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).