Classical Opera category: 1804 books
Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. II (1902)
Opera and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The second volume of Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.
by Arthur Rackham
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
"His pictures, which seemed to me then [aged 13] to be the very music made visible, plunged me a few fathoms deeper into my delight. I have seldom coveted anything as I coveted that book." — C.S. LewisBefore portraying Wagner's "Ring," Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) had become England's leading illustrator...
by Gioachino Rossini
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This file includes: Adelaide di Borgogna, in Italian; Adina, in Italian; Armida, in Italian; Aureliano in Palmira, in Italian; Bianca e Falliero, in Italian; Ciro in Babilonia, in Italian; Le Comte Ory, in French; Demetrio e Polibio, in Italian; Eduardo e Christina, in Italian; Elisabetta Regina d'Inggilterra,...
Ring of Power
Symbols and Themes Love Vs. Power in Wagner's Ring Circle and in Us : A Jungian-Feminist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
A vivid grasp of the story and the characters in "The Ring of Niebelung" brings Richard Wagner's mythic four-opera cycle to life. The Ring Cycle has a hold on our imagination like no other operatic work because it is archetypal and has the power of myth as well as music to reverberate in the psyche....
AIDA (ENGLISH - Italian)
Full Text / Libretto
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
AIDA - Opera in four Acts (Full Text / Libretto EN-IT), Synopsis, Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni (ENGLISH – Italian), Comments, VIDEO-Links to YouTube, Giuseppe Verdi (Biography), Friezes and drawings of ancient Egypt, Pictures of VERONA and Arena, small Candles.
Tempesta
Stormy Music in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Tempesta is a term coined in this book applying to music that exhibits agitated or violent characteristics in order to evoke terror and chaos, involving ideas like rapid scale passages, driving rhythmic figurations, strong accents, full textures, and robust instrumentation including prominent brass...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From...
Vanishing Sensibilities
Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Vanishing Sensibilities examines once passionate cultural concerns that shaped music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, and works of their contemporaries in drama or poetry. Music, especially music with text, was a powerful force in lively ongoing conversations about the nature of liberty, which included...
Experiencing Tchaikovsky
A Listener's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The music of Tchaikovsky remains as much loved in the twenty-first century as it was a hundred years ago. But it has so much more to offer than luscious orchestration and tuneful melodies. In Experiencing Tchaikovsky: A Listener’s Companion, historian and scholar David Schroeder looks beyond traditional...
"O ma Carmen"
Bizet's Fateful Gypsy in Portrayals from 1875 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
“Qu’est-ce que c’est?” (What is it?) mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié asked when offered the title role in the 1875 premier of Bizet’s new opera, Carmen. She was only the first in a long line of performers to ask. In the 140+ years since, each singer has crafted her own portrayal of...
Divas
Mathilde Marchesi and Her Pupils
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The incredible story of singing teacher extraordinaire Mathilde Marchesi who trained more international opera stars than anyone before or since.Who was Mathilde Marchesi? How did she become a byword internationally for vocal excellence and operatic success? What was her formula? And how did she produce...
by Valentin Lanzrein, Richard Cross
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German. Written by Valentin Lanzrein and Richard Cross, who each have years of experience...
The Rival Sirens
Performance and Identity on Handel's Operatic Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in...
Beyond Reason
Wagner contra Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:* Der Ring des Nibelungen*, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate...