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  • Verdi, Opera, Women

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas ... Leer más

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  • London Voices, 1820–1840

    Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories

    Edición de Roger Parker, Susan Rutherford ...
    London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city’s tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous ... Leer más

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  • Beethoven: a Character Study, Together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven

    First published in 1905, the book begins: "As life broadens with advancing culture, and people are able to appropriate to themselves more of the various forms of art, the artist himself attains to greater power, his abilities increase in direct ratio with the progress in culture made by the people and their ability to comprehend him. When one side or phase of an art comes to be received, new and ... Leer más

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  • Stand Up Straight and Sing!

    A Memoir

    de Jessye Norman ...
    In this uplifting memoir, the acclaimed singer reflects "on life, the arts, and spirituality . . . Inspiring" ( Booklist).Jessye Norman is one of the world's most admired and beloved singers—and her life story is as moving and dramatic as the great operatic roles she has performed on stage.Born and raised in Augusta, Georgia, she studied the piano and sang the songs of her childhood, never ... Leer más

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  • I Am Melba

    A Biography

    de Ann Blainey ...
    The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.Within a few years, reborn as Nellie Melba, she was performing to overflowing concert halls, hobnobbing with ... Leer más

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  • Great German Composers

    First published in 1878. Chapters cover: Bach, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Web, Mendelssohn, and Wagner. ... Leer más

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  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Leer más

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  • Verdi's Shakespeare

    Men of the Theater

    de Garry Wills ...
    A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation.In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but adored Shakespeare, Verdi ... Leer más

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  • Verdi

    de John Suchet ...
    Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story.An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from ... Leer más

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  • The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

    Richard Wagner, his Work and his World

    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rossini

    Edición de Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This 2004 Companion is a collection of specially commissioned essays on one of the most influential opera composers in the repertoire. The volume is divided into four parts, each exploring an important element of Rossini's life, his world, and his works: biography and reception; words and music; representative operas; and performance. Within these sections accessible chapters, written by a team of ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini

    Historiography, Analysis, Criticism

    Edición de Nicholas Mathew, Benjamin Walton ...
    Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ... Leer más

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