6,380円 Ombra is the term which applies to an operatic scene involving the appearance of an oracle or demon, witches, or ghosts. Such scenes can be traced back to the early days of opera and were commonplace in the seventeenth century in Italy and France. Operas based on the legends of Orpheus, Iphigenia...

5,898円 Denes Striny's international singing career brought him to the major opera houses of the world in leading roles. At the same time, he was evolving his vocal technique in a quest to find his full vocal potential. This book documents his struggles and successes with himself, teachers, coaches, and ...

17,114円 Cynthia Verba's book explores the story of music's role in the French Enlightenment, focusing on dramatic expression in the musical tragedies of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. She reveals how his music achieves its highly moving effects through an interplay between rational design, e...

1,856円 A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach's earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musician, and his stormy career in Leipzig. It also traces the significant stages of development in his f...

4,908円 With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new appro...

164円 "The history of what is popularly called Italian opera begins in the United States with a performance of Rossini's lyrical comedy "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"; it may, therefore, fittingly take the first place in these operatic studies. The place was the Park Theatre, then situated in Chambers Stree...

1,329円 La “Diva Turca” commence sa vie sur les rives du Bosphore pour connaître un formidable succès à Naples puis à La Scala de Milan avant de conquérir les grandes scènes lyriques internationales, sous les baguettes de Toscanini, Serafin, Simonetto, Gui, Gavanezzi, Karajan ou encore Muti en un temps o...

164円 Chapters cover: PARSIFAL, THE RHINE-GOLD, THE VALKYRIE (DIE WALKUERE), SIEGFRIED, THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (DIE GOETTERDAEMMERUNG), THE MASTER-SINGERS OF NUREMBERG, TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, LOHENGRIN, ANNHAeUSER, and THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Le...

26,532円 First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume represents Italian opera in English though the works have British origins and strong French influenc...

8,879円 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 i...

9,162円 In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their li...

330円 This classic text represents the definitive account of the life of the great Polish pianist/composer, Frederic Chopin. The story is told by his friend and colleague, the legendary Hungarian pianist, Franz Liszt-the ideal man to relate the brief, but brilliant life of Chopin. Liszt's proximity to ...