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Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera
Häftad, 1990
354 kr
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This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis and continued revision over three decades, Stephen Hinton examines the spin-offs on which Weill and …
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio
Av Paul Robinson, Paul Robinson
Häftad, 1996
385 kr
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Fidelio is Beethoven's only complete opera and one of the most admired, and problematic, in the repertoire. This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within the work as well as the debt to the traditions of French opera in the late eighteenth century and its affinities with …
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
Av Lucy Beckett
Häftad, 1981
385 kr
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In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with Wagner's life and thought, its libretto, music and stage history, are all thoroughly examined. There is a full commentary, with extensive quotation, …
Richard Strauss: Salome
Häftad, 1989
301 kr
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This full-length study of Salome is the first in English since Lawrence Gilman's introductory guide of 1907. The handbook presents an informative collection of historical, critical and analytical studies of one of Strauss's most familiar operas. Classic essays by Mario Praz and Richard Ellmann …
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Av Arthur Groos
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of its basic nexus of longing and death has fascinated audiences since its first performance in 1865. At the same time, its advanced harmonic language, …
Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Av James A. Hepokoski, James a. Hepokoski m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
385 kr
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James Hepokoski provides a reliable summary of what is currently known about Otello, along with an interpretation of the significance of the work within Verdi's career. The book begins with a detailed synopsis which interweaves some of the specific stage action from the 1887 Milanese première. …
Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Av James A. Hepokoski, James a. Hepokoski m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
385 kr
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This book is a compact, up-to-date guide to the history and construction of Verdi's last - and possibly greatest - opera. Incorporating the findings of the most recent research, it provides performers, opera enthusiasts, students and scholars alike with a reliable summary of what is currently known …
Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Av Paul Griffiths, Paul Griffiths
Häftad, 1982
354 kr
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The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, …
Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Häftad, 1985
301 kr
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This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story …
Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo
Häftad, 1986
385 kr
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A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed …
Alban Berg: Lulu
Av Douglas Jarman, Douglas Jarman m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
385 kr
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This book is a guide to Berg's second opera, Lulu, written in non-technical language and intended for those students and music lovers wishing to become familiar with one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century music. Jarman presents a clear and concise introduction to the musical language and to …
Alban Berg: Wozzeck
Häftad, 1989
385 kr
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Alban Berg's Wozzeck is one of the most significant operas of the twentieth century. Douglas Jarman's study provides a clear and accessible introduction to this work, placing it in the context of the radical developments in musical language during the early decades of the century and of the …
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Av Mosco Carner
Häftad, 1985
385 kr
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This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical example of Italian naturalism in operas, verismo. It compares Puccini's libretto with …
W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni
Av Julian Rushton, Julian Rushton
Häftad, 1981
385 kr
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This book is a study of Mozart's Don Giovanni, his second opera to a libretto by da Ponte. Although it is one of the handful of best-known and most often performed operas of the last two hundred years, Don Giovanni is seldom given in an authentic form and arguments persist as to its nature. Julian …
C. W. von Gluck: Orfeo
Häftad, 1981
385 kr
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This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers and …
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
Av Philip Brett, Philip Brett m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
385 kr
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Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was a milestone in operatic history as well as in British music. But the origins of the work lie in the …
Leos Janácek: Kát'a Kabanová
Av Tyrrell, John Tyrrell
Häftad, 1982
670 kr
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Kát'a Kabanová is both the first Janácek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John Tyrrell brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) …
W. A. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Av Thomas Bauman, Richard Wagner
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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This addition to the Cambridge Opera Handbooks series is also the first full-length study of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail. It aims to familiarize the reader with all aspect of the work: Mozart's writing of the opera and its literary antecedents, its plot, its musical structure, its …
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Av Roger Nichols, Richard Langham Smith
Häftad, 1989
385 kr
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The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy's only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, and considers …
W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Av Tim Carter, Tim Carter
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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Le nozze di Figaro (1786) was Mozart's first mature opera buffa. It was also the first of his three major collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Unlike Don Giovanni (1787) and Così fan tutte (1790), Figaro has few obvious problems, and even if it is not without flaws, it nevertheless …
Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème
Häftad, 1986
385 kr
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This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical, and documentary essays on Puccini's most popular opera. There are new studies on the background to Parisian bohemianism (by Jerrold Seigel), on Puccini's musical language (by William Drabkin), and on the opera's stage history (by …
W. A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Av Peter Branscombe, Richard Wagner
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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Few operas have had more written about them than The Magic Flute, yet few are as often exposed to misguided comment - or to idiosyncratic productions. This book sets out to provide a straightforward account of Mozart's last opera, exposing the half-truths and legends that have proliferated since …
Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice
Häftad, 1987
301 kr
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This book is exceptional amongst those that have appeared so far in this well-established series, in that it is largely written by those who worked with the composer and assisted him during the period in which the opera was composed and first put on the stage. It will thus remain a source of …
Richard Strauss: Arabella
Häftad, 1989
586 kr
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This is the first comprehensive guide to Richard Strauss's Arabella. The opening chapters explore the literary background of the work, and examine the Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaboration. Arabella is seen as the culmination of specific ideas and techniques: an attempt to win something of the …
Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens
Häftad, 1989
435 kr
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This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has three main concerns: historical, analytical and interpretative. There is a detailed description of the genesis of each work, the collaboration between …
Richard Strauss
Elektra
Häftad, 1990
385 kr
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The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Strauss's most complex operas. First, P. E. Easterling surveys the mythological background, while Karen Forsyth discusses Hofmannsthal's adaptation of …
Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations
Av Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani
Inbunden, 1994
2031 kr
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Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of scholarship. The topics discussed …
W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
Av John A. Rice
Häftad, 1991
385 kr
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This is the first book to be devoted to Mozart's opera, La clemenza di Tito. Rice considers the opera from a variety of historical and critical viewpoints. Tito is a political opera. The author examines its origins in the politically unstable Habsburg Empire of 1791, interpreting it as a response …
Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov
Myths, Realities, Reconsiderations
Av Caryl Emerson, Robert William Oldani m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
468 kr
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Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a music historian) take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of scholarship. The topics discussed …
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd
Av Mervyn Cooke, Philip Reed m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
385 kr
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Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints. Melville's novella is discussed, as is the interpretation given to the novella by the librettists E. M. …
