Legendary opera singer Maria Callas (1923-1977) was a brilliant soprano adored for her staggering triumphs at La Scala, the Met, and Covent Garden. But behind the public facade Callas wrestled with lifelong personal demons. Consumed by her relationsh...Lasīt vairāk
Richard Wagner wanted to create miracles with his operas, in much the same way as medieval dramatists wanted to produce miracles on stage in the hopes of dazzling and converting an audience of pagans. The connections between Wagner and the dram...Lasīt vairāk
In Britain today, opera is routinely called elitist. But things were not always thus. Examining shifting cultural attitudes over the century from 1920 to 2020, Someone Elses Music recounts a hidden history of popular opera-going in Britain, which d...Lasīt vairāk
Mark Everist reveals for the first time a repertory of operas destined for performance in various forms of domestic environment found in Paris during the Second Empire (1850s-60s). He examines the repertory, its creators, and consumers through the le...Lasīt vairāk
Postcolonial Opera examines the social and political role of opera in the postcolony. Taking the multimedia operatic experiments of William Kentridge, South Africas most celebrated contemporary visual artist, as a starting point, author Jul...Lasīt vairāk
Opera has long been known for its ability to be used as a tool for colonial expression. But it is increasingly used to narrate histories of colonial trauma, oppression, and struggle. What does it mean for a colonial form to represent the experiences...Lasīt vairāk
The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of a life that comes out of chaos. At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teachers bookshelf, and his worl...Lasīt vairāk
Rainer Maria Rilkes fifteen-part poetic cycle Das Marien-Leben stands as his most eloquent meditation on Mary, the mother of Jesus, whose name he shares. Rilke composed these verses in 1912, and ten years later, Paul Hindemith chose to height...Lasīt vairāk
Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing g...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a series of thought-provoking essays about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as...Lasīt vairāk
Fifteen years since the publication of its first volume, this invaluable guide to some of the most challenging aria excerpts continues with Volume II. Featuring an entirely new selection of arias, Guide to the Aria Repertoire, Volume II...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253072658)
Fifteen years since the publication of its first volume, this invaluable guide to some of the most challenging aria excerpts continues with Volume II. Featuring an entirely new selection of arias, Guide to the Aria Repertoire, Volume II...Lasīt vairāk
This study examines the life and work of Louis-Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833), famous for the operas Marie (1826), Zampa (1831) and Le Pré aux clercs (1832), as well as for the ballets La Somnambule (1827) and La Fille mal gardée (1828). In these work...Lasīt vairāk
Rossini“s fame spread throughout Europe and his works were performed in the main European capitals. From an early age he had to provide for himself and his family and he knew how to benefit from the opportunities of the commercial society in which h...Lasīt vairāk
Following his allegorical interpretation of Wagners Ring of the Nibelung, this installment of Heises Wagner project demonstrates how the composer employed key facets of the plots of The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin in building the al...Lasīt vairāk
Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagners operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet no one has previously atte...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009168649)
Pierre Boulez was a towering figure in contemporary music from the 1940s and 1950s to his death in 2016. This volume demonstrates his distinctive impact on new music and situates him within a wide range of contexts to enhance appreciation of the cult...Lasīt vairāk
Bradley uncovers a hidden side of operetta and musical theatre. He highlights the significant religious and spiritual influences which pervade the work of composers and librettists such as Offenbach, Lehįr, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Sondheim....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253072016)
In 1935, the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her United States debut in a live radio broadcast that went across the country and made her an overnight success. Flagstad went on to enjoy an astounding career at the Metropolitan Opera, becomi...Lasīt vairāk
