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The Bear
An Extravaganza in One Act, William Walton Edition vol. 2
2010
4582 kr
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The Bear is an extravaganza in one act for three soloists and orchestra, commissioned by the Koussevitsky Foundation in 1965 and first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967. It is based on a short story of Chekhov, with a libretto by Paul Dehn. The action takes place in the drawing room of …
Performing the Music of Henry Purcell
Inbunden, 1996
4153 kr
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As Nicholas Kenyon says, quoting Ralph Vaughan Williams in the introduction to this volume, 'We all pay lip service to Henry Purcell, but what do we really know of him?'. Many aspects of the composer's life remain obscure, but, with the approach of the tercentenary of Henry Purcell's death in 1995, …
Henry Purcell's Operas
The Complete Texts
Inbunden, 2000
6903 kr
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While understanding the concept of all-sung opera, seventeenth-century English impresarios and their audiences also understood opera to mean spoken plays with a large amount of added music. The works have been given a variety of descriptive titles including `semi-operas', `ambigues', `multi-media …
Purcell Companion
Häftad, 2009
332 kr
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Henry Purcell has long been acknowledged as one of England's greatest composers. Little is known about his life beyond his official appointments and their duties, but as a musician he excelled as a servant of the Court, the Church and the theatre, writing odes, welcome songs, sonatas, anthems, …
Purcell Remembered
Häftad, 2009
322 kr
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Purcell was the greatest ornament of English music in the seventeenth century, and has been a source of inspiration for British composers ever since. Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Peter Maxwell Davies are among those who have expressed indebtedness to Purcell's musical genius. But his …
Woman Scorn'd
Responses to the Dido Myth
Häftad, 2009
352 kr
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Dido and Aeneas has been one of the most compelling and durable of the great classical myths. The material the story offers has led artists, authors and musicians throughout the centuries to appropriate - and misappropriate - the story for both artistic and political ends. Ten distinguished …
Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company
Anton Reiff's Riverboat Travel Journal
Inbunden, 2020
547 kr
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The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830-1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844
E-bok, 2024
9807 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume V
1821-1844
E-bok, 2024
838 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume IV
1799-1821
E-bok, 2024
3088 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume II
1763-1782
E-bok, 2024
3448 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume I
1711-1763
E-bok, 2024
936 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume III
1783-1792
E-bok, 2024
890 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume I
1711-1763
E-bok, 2024
936 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume IV
1799-1821
E-bok, 2024
3088 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume V
1821-1844
E-bok, 2024
820 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume III
1783-1792
E-bok, 2024
890 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume II
1763-1782
E-bok, 2024
3448 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a …
London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume I
1711-1763
Inbunden, 2013
881 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of …
London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume II
1763-1782
Inbunden, 2013
3163 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of …
London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume III
1783-1792
Inbunden, 2013
789 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of …
London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume IV
1799-1821
Inbunden, 2013
3163 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of …
London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume V
1821-1844
Inbunden, 2013
789 kr
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of …
Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London
E-bok, 2017
960 kr
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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London''s opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera …
Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London
E-bok, 2017
981 kr
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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London''s opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera …
Staging History
1780-1840
Av Michael Burden, Wendy Heller m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
369 kr
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical works in order to cast light on their role in …
With a Grace Not to Be Captured: Representing the Georgian Theatrical Dancer, 1760-1830
Av Michael Burden, Jennifer Thorp
Häftad
1583 kr
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Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London
Inbunden, 2013
1053 kr
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Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera …
