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  • Regina Mingotti: Diva and Impresario at the King's Theatre, London

    by Michael Burden ...
    Series series Royal Musical Association Monographs
    Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747. Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at the Spanish court, where the opera was directed by the great castrato, Farinelli. It is not known quite how Francesco Vanneschi, the opera ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume III

    1783-1792

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume IV

    1799-1821

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • London Opera Observed 1711-1844, Volume II

    1763-1782

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $322.92 CAD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume V

    1821-1844

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume I

    1711-1763

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d. It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset edition examines ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company

    Anton Reiff’s Riverboat Travel Journal

    Edited by Michael Burden ...
    Series series The Hill Collection: Holdings of the LSU Libraries
    The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    QI: The Sound of General Ignorance

    by John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, Michael Burden ...
    Narrated by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 21 min

    Listen and Learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

    by Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie, Máire MacNeill, Chelsea Phillips, Nevena Martinovic, Michael Burden, Fiona Ritchie, Seth Wilson, Elaine McGirr0, Amanda Weldy Boyd1, Danielle Bobker2 ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Instant Notes in Sport and Exercise Biomechanics

    by Paul Grimshaw, Michael Cole, Adrian Burden, Neil Fowler ...
    This is the clearest and most straightforward biomechanics textbook currently available. By breaking down the challenging subject of sport and exercise biomechanics into short thematic sections, it enables students to grasp each topic quickly and easily, and provides lecturers with a flexible resource that they can use to support any introductory course on biomechanics.The book contains a wealth ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    Them Days 4.1

    Stories from around the Big Land

    by David Lough, Judy McGrath, May Burton, Jean Crane, Phyllis Pritchard, Muriel Way, Tommy Davis, Arthur Rich, Michael Normore, Clara Burden, Margaret Davis, Samuel Chard, Hilda Dickers, Nigel Markham ...
    Narrated by Patty Way, Ella Wallace, Mark Turner, Janice Goudie, Bridget Chaulk, Ida Suarak, Domenica Brown, George Way, Jillian Larkham ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    Them Days is dedicated to capturing and preserving the stories throughout Labrador. Enjoy tales from Indian Harbour Hospital, Muddy Bay, about raising siblings and school days. ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Amateur Detective Roger Sheringham

    The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Jumping Jenny

    by Anthony Berkeley ...
    Narrated by Neil Stacy, Hugh Burden, Conrad Phillips, Michael Bilton, Jane Wenham, Trevor Martin, Simon Lack, Hamilton Dyce, Joan Newell, John Scott, Sheila Manahan, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 47 min

    Two BBC Radio full-cast dramas from the master of classic crimeAnthony Berkeley was a journalist, novelist, and founding member of the Detection Club - whose members included Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers - and was one of crime fiction's greatest innovators, developing the idea of the psychological crime novel in the 1920s and 30s. One of his recurring and most-beloved characters was Roger ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD