Opera Books
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Gtterdmmerung WWV 86 D Der Ring des Nibelungen
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£54.00
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Tristan Und Isolde Wwv 90 Handlung in Drei
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£54.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Metamorphosen Der Madame Butterfly:
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£76.00
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH Callas: Images of a Legend
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£30.60
Transcript Verlag Operatic Pasticcios in Eighteenth–Century Europe
Book SynopsisIn Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as "pasticcios" since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.
£53.59
V&R unipress GmbH Italian Music in Dakota: The Function of European
Book SynopsisThe intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic migration of European opera and its appropriation by some of the most important literary figures of the United States. The presence of opera in literary texts is always operative and results in artistic outputs possessing more articulated and tense vectors of meaning. The comparative method applied confirms the musical sensitivity of masters such as Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton, Cather, reveals the intriguing contradictions in the poetics of Emerson, Thoreau and James and vindicates the role of some minor figures who, through their involvement in the world of musical theater, contributed to the intercultural context.
£48.76
Arnoldsche The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures.
Book SynopsisPhotographer Monika Rittershaus is regarded as an inspiring interpreter of today’s musical theatre in all its diversity, opulence, and drama, but also in its human profundity, uniqueness, and veracity. As a highly sensitive observer, she looks out over the on-stage activity, uncovering gentle, touching, and peripheral moments. Barrie Kosky: “I have often observed Monika at work through the corner of my eye as I sit behind the production desk ... She seems to sense the inner world of a moment and to know at exactly the right moment when to click her camera.” In her highly stringent visual compositions, Rittershaus depicts in a personalized and decisive way many influential directors and operas such as: DAS RHEINGOLD, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles Opera (2009), director: Achim Freyer COSI FAN TUTTE, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburger Festspiele (2020), director: Christof Loy TANNHÄUSER, Richard Wagner, De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam (2019), director: Christof Loy CARMEN, Georges Bizet, Oper Frankfurt (2016), director: Barrie Kosky SALOME, Richard Strauss, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (2021), director: Claus Guth ELEKTRA, Richard Strauss, Staatsoper Hamburg (2022), director: Dmitri Tcherniakov IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Opernhaus Zurich (2020), director: Andreas Homoki CENDRILLON, Jules Massenet, Opéra National de Paris Bastille (2022), director: Mariame Clément Text in English and German.Table of ContentsIris Maria vom Hof WHAT IS OPERA’S STATUS TODAY? 6 Barrie Kosky THE THEATRE‘S BUTTERFLY HUNTER 8 PHOTOGRAPHS BY | FOROGRAFIEN VON MONIKA RITTERSHAUS 13 Dirk Allgaier ON HAPPINESS AND OUR HEARTS‘ DESIRE IN THE CAVE 212 SHORT BIOGRAPHIES 214 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 217 GLOSSARY 218
£33.60
Edition Lammerhuber Close Up: 118 Premieres, Vienna State Opera,
Book SynopsisOn 632 pages, Ioan Holender, former director of the Vienna State Opera, recollects all 118 premieres of his term, which lasted from 1991 to 2010, relating his impressions in a very personal and intimate way. During numerous meetings with editor Lois Lammerhuber, Ioan Holender described the turbulent and moving, sometimes dramatic and sometimes joyful, course of these productions. The stories reflect Ioan Holender's deep passion for opera and its protagonists. Axel Zeininger's photographs provide a great variety of insights into 19 years of opera, with the stars of generations of singers, from Placido Domingo to Anna Netrebko. Facsimile prints of the original playbills make this book an extraordinary document. The volume is rounded off with analyses by arts journalists Gert Korentschnig, Karl-Heinz Roschitz, Heinz Sichrovsky and Wilhem Sinkovicz. Text in English & German.Table of ContentsContents: Biography of Ioan Holender; Premieres: Wiener Staarsoper 1991/1992 - 1999/2000; Conclusion of the Analysts; Premieres: Wiener Staarsoper 2001/2002 - 2009/2010; Premieres: Wiener Volksoper 1991/1992 - 1995/1996; List of Premieres.
£108.75
Edition Lammerhuber On Stage: Vienna Opera House
Book SynopsisOn Stage shows everything that must be done before the curtain can be lifted and the prepared decorations of an opera house can be seen on stage so that the performance can start. The words 'stage machinery' describe only very inadequately the interaction of hundreds of people in highly skilled occupations: the flies, sinking, props...On Stage offers not only a glimpse behind the stage but also to mysterious places on, under and next to the stage, a preparatory drama that is as dramatic as the play itself. After Metamorphoses, Creation, Celebration, Close-up, Passion, Emotion and Glamour, On Stage is the 8th volume in an encyclopaedic series about the Vienna Opera House, conceived to grow by one volume per year until 2019, when the opera house celebrates its 125th anniversary.
£45.00
Verlag fur moderne Kunst GmbH Birgit Nilsson: La Nilsson My Life in Opera
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£23.20
Spector Books Christoph Schlingensief: Operndorf Afrika
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£30.60
Spector Books Parsifal Container
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£32.30
Spector Books The Threepenny Opera: Making of: Barrie Kosky
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£25.20
e-artnow Tannhäuser: Grosse romantische Oper in drei
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£6.15
Redbook Historia de la Ópera: Los Orígenes, Los
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£20.89
Ma Non Troppo Historias de la Historia de la Ópera: La Otra
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£19.12
£19.93
Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales Diccionario de la Zarzuela. España e
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£155.35
Museum Tusculanum Press Vocal Victories: Wagner's Female Characters from
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£47.59
Silvana Contracts, Wills, Marriages and Rings: Opera and
Book SynopsisOpera, for its inherent multimedia nature (text, music, scenography, ballet, representation), lends itself to interdisciplinary, including those that touch upon legal topics. The stories told in the great masterpieces of European opera are, frequently, based on facts relevant for criminal law. Murders, abductions, extortions, kidnappings, massacres, and other types of crimes have filled the stories of opera since its origin. In much of musical theatre, including the masterpieces by Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Wagner, and many others,there are, also issues addressed that touch upon the less obvious areas of private law: librettos often talk about contracts, donations, wills, weddings, family relationships, debts and money issues in general. In Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Nemorino - in love with the beautiful but indifferent Adina - is the victim of a real contract scam perpetrated by Dulcamara. In La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini, Elvino snatches the engagement ring given to Amina thinking she was unfaithful: he revokes a donation made in view of marriage, and maybe breaks a rule of law. In Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, one witnesses a sensational case of breach of contract, to be read in the light of the emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a new sensibility for market economy and the increasingly central value of contracts in social relations. In Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, there is a strange marriage vow, executed in order to guarantee the repayment of a debt.
£14.36
Skira Last Days of the Opera
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Mass for requiem for the anniversary of the death
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£28.50
£43.69
Ricordi BMG Il Signor Bruschino
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£26.99
HAL LEONARD ANNA BOLENA
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£11.45
Ricordi BMG Poliuto Vocal Score Based on Crit Ed
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£34.16
Ricordi BMG RICORDI VERDI G I MASNADIERI CHANT PIANO
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£47.50
HAL LEONARD LA CLEMENZA DI TITO
Book SynopsisEd E Rescigno Libretto.
£12.39
HAL LEONARD FRANCESCA DA RIMINI
Book SynopsisLibretto Testo Italiano Inglese.
£14.50
Ricordi BMG Attila: Ed. Critica Di Helen M. Greenwald -
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£33.24
Volonte & Co. Cantare Italiano - The Language of Opera
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£21.90
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren De eenheid in het dualisme: Idee en representatie
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£36.10
Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis The Theatre of Drottningholm - Then and Now:
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£23.75
Amsterdam University Press Zest for Opera!: Unleash your Leadership
Book SynopsisOpera is food for the soul. At its best, opera can hold up a mirror to society. Opera invites us to approach rational thinking from a different perspective. It puts the notions of body, mind and soul in a totally different, more organic and humanist constellation. Patrick Pype's conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. For him, the protagonists in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Janacek = are inspiring models of leadership. Their behaviour helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirational leaders.Trade Review"As a lover of opera, I can warmly recommend this book. Leadership wins by the cross-fertilization of separated worlds. Only in that way inspiration can be created, which makes it possible for leaders to start the search for the holy grail of their domain of expertise. This book tells in an exciting way how opera can help you to find this holy grail". - Jan Jambon, Deputy prime minister and Minister of Security and Home Affairs, Belgian Federal Government "In the same way as leaders can inspire people, opera can lead to a break out of emotions, which can lead to surprising new insights. This book, written by an engineer, manager and opera-fan, is therefore a recommendation for those who want to get an original look at leadership." - Carmen Cordier, Director BDO Crossroad, Imelda VZW en AllThingsTalk. "Evolving into a complete work of art, the opera enrolls help from all Muses for celebrating the splendor of exceptional human voices, generating deeper and stronger emotions than any man-made musical instrument. It stimulates us to give new insights in our leadership and coaching of teams." - Andreas Wild, R&D investments Consultant, Former Executive Director of the European Joint Undertaking ECSEL/ENIAC "Take care! Opera can touch you to the deepest of your soul, it can give you goose bumps until behind your ears, it can turn your world upside down, it can change your life. Opera makes you better. With an unforeseen power. So, take care." - Olivier Goris, Netmanager één - canvas Belgian Television Channels "Ik heb veel plezier beleefd aan de scherpzinnige operaanalyses vanuit de bijzondere invalshoek van Pype. Op elke bladzij betuigt hij zijn liefde voor opera en daarbij geeft hij ook heel barmhartig dvd-tips bij de behandelde opera's. Je wilt tenslotte zelf zien waar de leider faalt... of had kunnen slagen." - Luister, 2020
£31.95
MER Paper Kunsthalle Wagner: L'Opera Hors de Soi: La Pensee et L'art
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£35.55
Kapon Editions Fashion Designers at the Opera (Greek language
Book Synopsis200 colour illustrations, 2 b&w. Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. The most theatrical of arts has inspired the most visionary fashion designers. Top designers such as Zandra Rhodes, Carl Lagerfeld, Georgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Gianni Versace, Viktor & Rolf, Miuccia Prada, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Lacroix have made successful sorties as costumiers for operas all over the world. This sumptuous book profiles leading figures in the world of fashion, together with their dazzling costume designs. Interviews illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a new medium. The book includes designs for Don Giovanni, Carmen, Aida, Così fan tutte, The Magic Flute and many other operas staged at such opera houses as the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Arènes de Nîmes and more. Includes over 200 illustrations, including designers' sketches and photographs of the costumes on stage. Greek language text.Table of Contentsπεριεχομενα Τζιόρτζιο Αρμάνι Η Προσδοκία • Έτσι Κάνουν Όλες Μαρκ Μποάν Ορφέας και Ευρυδίκη • Πελλέας και Μελισσάνθη Η Εύθυμη Χήρα Ντον Τζιοβάνι Κριστιάν Λακρουά Κάρμεν • Ο Βασιλιάς Βοσκός • Ηλιογάβαλος Έτσι Κάνουν Όλες • Θαΐς • Αγριππίνα Καρλ Λάγκερφελντ Τα Παραμύθια του Χόφμαν • Τρώες • Το Χελιδόνι • Μανόν • Νόρμα Οτάβιο και Ροζίτα Μισόνι Λουτσία ντι Λάμερμουρ Μιούτσια Πράντα Αττίλας Ζάντρα Ρόουντς Ο Μαγικός Αυλός • Αλιείς Μαργαριταριών • Αΐντα Εμανουέλ Ουνγκαρό Η Καταδίκη του Φάουστ • Η Μεγαλοψυχία του Τίτο Τζιάνι Βερσάτσε Σαλώμη • Δρ Φάουστους • Καπρίτσιο Βίκτωρ & Ρολφ Ο Ελεύθερος Σκοπευτής ευρετήριο
£54.62
Kapon Editions Scala. Greek Myths and Ancient Drama
Book SynopsisThe relation between tragedy and opera is as old as opera itself. Opera was born out of experiments by Italian scholars of the Renaissance relating to the nature of ancient tragedy and ways in which it could be performed. And many works in the operatic repertoire derive their subject matter from ancient legends. This relationship is described briefly, though with full documentation, in this little volume. English and Italian bilingual text. 109 colour illustrations.Table of ContentsIndice /Contents Il dramma greco antico / Ancient Greek Drama SPYROS MERCOURIS Gli occhi fissi nel mito / Eyes fastened on myth VITTORIA GRESPI MORBIO Opera e Tragedia. Da Euripide a Eschilo / Opera and Tragedy. From Euripides to Aeschylus NIKOS BAKOUNAKIS La Grecia e l’Opera / Greece and Opera HELENA MATHEOPOULOS Medea-Callas / Medea-Callas NIKOS BAKOUNAKIS Fonti e illustrazioni / Sources of Illustration
£13.77
Edition Peters The Magic Flute
Book SynopsisWolfgang Amadeus Mozart''s TheMagic Flute can rightly be called his most famous opera; for many it is even the origin of German opera. After the rather moderate success of the premiere at the end of September 1791 in Vienna, under the direction of Mozart himself, the almost three-hour work quickly rose in reputation and was performed over 100 times by November of the same year. This edition is based on the autograph and the text edition from 1792. Editor Kurt Soldan did not take any modifications or subsequently added content into account.Die Zauberflöte KV 620 (Klavierauszug)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Die Zauberflöte kann mit Recht seine bekannteste Oper genannt werden, für viele ist sie sogar der Ursprung der deutschen Oper. Nach eher mäßigem Erfolg der Uraufführung Ende September 1791 in Wien, unter Leitung Mozarts selbst, stieg das knapp dreistündige Werk schnell im Ansehen und wurde bis November desselben Jahres über
£21.56
Edition Peters Aria Album Famous Arias for Soprano
Book SynopsisIn Alfred Dörffel''s aria album, the classics of musical theater and other vocal works are lined up and waiting to be sung in class or on stage. Arias from the most famous operas by Mozart, Beethoven, Weber and Wagner alternate with the best solos from the sacred works by Bach, Handel and Haydn. The texts are in the original language, but some have translations into German, Italian or English.Arien-Album: Berühmte Arien für Sopran und Klavier: Aus geistlichen und weltlichen Werken von Bach bis WagnerIm Arien-Album von Alfred Dörffel reihen sich die Klassiker des Musiktheaters und anderer Vokalwerke und warten darauf, im Unterricht oder auf der Bühne gesungen zu werden. Arien aus den bekanntesten Opern von Mozart, Beethoven, Weber oder Wagner wechseln sich ab mit den besten Soli aus den geistlichen Werke von Bach, Händel und Haydn. Die Texte sind in der Originalsprache gegeben, verfügen teilweise aber über Übersetzungen ins Deutsche, Italienische oder E
£31.46
Edition Peters Practical Method High Voice and Piano
Book SynopsisVaccai''s Metodo Pratico (Practical Method) for High Voice focuses on the art of the Italian language in performance. This advanced guide discusses different styles of singing and how to grasp the language inperformance. The German singing translation has been provided by John Bernhoff. Lyrics are therefore presented in Italian and German, and the all commentaries and notes are provided in English, French and German.Metodo Pratico di Canto Italiano für Gesang und Klavier (Hohe Stimme)Der Komponist und Sänger Nicola Vaccai machte es sich zur Aufgabe, die Übungen, die jeder Schüler anfangs zur Stimmbildung machen sollte, ansprechender zu gestalten. Deshalb schrieb er kurze Stücke, jedes mit einem eigenen Zweck und mit Text unterlegt. Für den deutschen Leser fügte John Bernhoff Übersetzungen davon hinzu, Vaccai selbst empfiehlt aber, Verse von Metastasio auf die seine Melodien zu singen. Zusätzlich gibt er nützliche Tipps und Erläuterungen, die einen
£11.35
Edition Peters DÃme Ãpais Flower Duet from LakmÃ
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£9.45
