This illustrated biography of the brilliant and controversial opera singer, Maria Callas, includes two CDs featuring nearly three hours of her music, accompanied by the libretti and key to an enlightening commentary. The focus of the book is on her musical development, her influence, her critical reception and the specific qualities that have made her a legend. The CDs feature 30 different arias and performances from works by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, Saint-Saens, Gounod and many more.
Madame White Snake
This opera in four acts is based on an ancient Chinese myth about a snake-shaped spirit that attains human form to experience love. The English libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs sensitively adapts the story for modern audiences, and Zhou Long's music uses both Western and Chinese sounds to create a pioneering cross-cultural opera. Long was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Madame White Snake, and the Pulitzer jury described the work as "a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese f...
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Comedies, Vaudevilles. l'Amour Platonique (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Comedies, Vaudevilles. Chut (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
Oeuvres Completes de Eugene Scribe, Comedies, Vaudevilles. l'Etudiant Et La Grande Dame (Litterature)
by Eugene Scribe
This volume demonstrates for the first time that Mozart's opera Die Zauberfloete is an enactment of the alchemical opus magnum, in the form of a chemical wedding. Towards the end of the 18th century, alchemy was still a prominent mystical current within the Order of Freemasons of which Mozart and his librettists were members. The central part focuses on the opera's alchemical structure, whereas the historical and mythological backgrounds are also dealt with extensively. The book comes with 3 CD'...
Le Nozze Di Figaro O Sia Lo Folle Giornata . (Ed.1786) (Arts)
by Da Ponte L
Buoyant, irrepressible and hot-tempered, John Charles Thomas captivated audiences worldwide with his incredible voice. The son of a farmer, his earliest singing experience was at church revivals. He attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and in 1910, as Thomas began his second year of study, he was taken under the tutelage of Adelin Fermin, one of the few voice coaches in America capable of truly training Thomas' voice. This good fortune virtually made Thomas' career. By 1915, he was wor...
Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's "Lulu" (Eastman Studies in Music)
by Silvio J Dos Santos
Exploring the crossroads between autobiographical narrative and musical composition, this book examines Berg's transformation of Frank Wedekind's Erdgeist and Die Buchse der Pandora -- the plays used in the formation of the libretto for Lulu -- according to notions of gender identity, social customs, and the aesthetics of modernity in the Vienna of the 1920s and 1930s. While Berg modernized several aspects of the plays and incorporated serial techniques of composition from Arnold Schoenberg, he...
Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and offers a historical and critical survey of these operettas and their music. In the period 1900-1940,...
George Frideric Handel - Rinaldo - HWV7b - A Full Score
by George Frideric Handel
Von Musen Und Musik: Zu Oper, Libretto Und Singspiel
by Hans-Albrecht Koch
Hanns Eislers Opernprojekt "Johann Faustus" gehorte in den fruhen 50er Jahren zu den umstrittensten Werken der DDR. Der Schonberg-Schuler Eisler beabsichtigte eine deutsche Nationaloper zu komponieren, die die politische Situation der Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit bezuglich der Haltung des deutschen Intellektuellen zu Faschismus und Diktatur aufzeigen sollte. Die Kulturgewaltigen der DDR lehnten sowohl den Faust der Bauernkriege als auch die Aussage des Werkes ab. Die massive Kritik an Eisler und s...