2,200円 Categorie, personaggi, figure, luoghi comuni e non comuni di quello spettacolo musicale che chiamiamo «opera» si radunano qui come voci di un repertorio che fa di tutto per non essere quello che sembra: un'enciclopedia. L'ordine alfabetico, per sua natura arbitrario, fa di Opera, neutro plurale u...

1,760円 From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankruptーand what it means for the future of the arts. In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Operaー"the people's opera"ーhad finally succumbed to financial ...

1,983円 One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes Dennis Cleveland and a gift for superimposing pop vernaculars onto avant-garde music. This memoir channels Rouse’s high energy personality into an exuberant account of the precarity ...

1,760円 Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be balanced by sense and reason. Exploring this tension between madness and reason, Not without Madness pre...

18円 Maurice Maeterlinck described his libretto Ariane et Barbe-bleue as "a sort of legendary opera, or fairy [opera], in three acts." In 1907, Paul Dukas finished setting Maeterlinck's libretto to music, and the opera's Paris premiere was lauded as a landmark in operatic history. Ariane & Bluebeard: ...

1,921円 In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen's magnum opus, Saint François d'Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the ...

781円 ”Da Sartis løbebane som teaterentreprenør af tidligere anførte grunde i året 1772 havde fået en så brat afslutning, blev følgen en gennemgribende omordning af vore teaterforhold. De store pengetab, italienernes og franskmændenes gæstespil havde påført teaterkassen, nødvendiggjorde til at begynde ...

4,333円 Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history. Biographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by...

1,581円 ”For mange mennesker er Østrig simpelthen musikkens land, og det er da også iøjnefaldende, at en stor del af de vigtigste begivenheder inden for de sidste 250 års musikhistorie, har udspillet sig på østrigsk jord. Navne som Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Schönberg, ...

2,982円 ”Således som litteraturens, filosofiens og kulturens historie nærmere beretter om, sattes der ind i verden nye tanker om religion, om liv og død, om menneskets betydning og rettigheder. Der dannede sig nye anskuelser om kunsten, dens værd og formål. På denne tid, da ordene ’sentimental’, ’empfind...

1,657円 “During his picaresque, chameleon career, [Da Ponte] was always on the move. Jew and Catholic, priest and womaniser, poet and bankrupt, shopkeeper and university professor, he began his long life in and around Venice and ended it in New York. It is hard to imagine a more flamboyant personal histo...

1,760円 In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne...