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ISBN: 9780300123739 - Opera Lover's Companion Opera Lover's Companion
Osborne, Charles

ISBN10: 9780300130812  ISBN13: 9780300130812
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
This engaging guide to the 175 most popular operas will enhance the experience of every opera lover. Written by a well-known authority, the book consists of entries that set each opera within the context of its composers career, outline the plot... More

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ISBN: 9780415278515 - Operatic State Operatic State
Bereson, Ruth

ISBN10: 9780203219393  ISBN13: 9780203219393
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
The Operatic State examines the cultural, financial, and political investments that have gone into the maintenance of opera and opera houses in Europe, the USA and Australia. It analyses opera's nearly immutable form throughout wars, revolutions... More

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ISBN: 9780300089769 - On Opera On Opera
Williams, Bernard

ISBN10: 9780300142280  ISBN13: 9780300142280
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Bernard Williams, who died in 2003, was one of the most influential moral philosophers of his generation. A lifelong opera lover, his articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the... More

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ISBN: 9780571237364 - Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner
Tanner, Michael

ISBN10: 9780571258482  ISBN13: 9780571258482
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Electronic Book
Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought... More

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ISBN: 9789077212202 - Opera Opera
Marco, Guy A

ISBN10: 9780203901205  ISBN13: 9780203901205
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Routledge
Format: Electronic Book
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions... More

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ISBN: 9780521895750 - When Opera Meets Film When Opera Meets Film
Citron

ISBN10: 9780511784156  ISBN13: 9780511784156
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of Style, Subjectivity, and Desire, this volume advances our understanding of the aesthetics of the... More

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ISBN: 9780521878432 - Verdi and the French Aesthetic Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Giger, Andreas

ISBN10: 9780511410659  ISBN13: 9780511410659
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Electronic Book
Focusing on Verdi's French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French versification while gradually bringing his works in line with French melodic aesthetic. In his first French... More

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ISBN: 9780195305883 - New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas New Grove Guide to Wagner and His Operas
BARRY, MILLINGTON

ISBN10: 9780195345513  ISBN13: 9780195345513
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Electronic Book
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ISBN: 9780571224593 - Faber Pocket Guide to Opera Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
Christiansen, Rupert

ISBN10: 9780571260973  ISBN13: 9780571260973
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Electronic Book
A handy, readable and easy-to-use opera guide by leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen, containing entries for over a hundred works, both familiar and unfamiliar.Features include:- snapshot plot summaries- background information on each opera... More

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ISBN: 9780199558551 - Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage
Brown, Peter; Ograjen%sek, Suzana

ISBN10: 9780191610943  ISBN13: 9780191610943
Publisher: Oxford
Format: Electronic Book
Operas based on Greek drama - primarily tragedy - have been, and are, among the most important in the repertoire, and this collection of essays by leading authorities in a variety of disciplines provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed... More