Author: Roger Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: new, grove, operas, guide, verdi
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195313135
ISBN-13: 9780195313130
Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability. Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant illustrations.
Author: Roger Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: new, grove, operas, guide, verdi
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 2007-02-26
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0195313143
ISBN-13: 9780195313147
Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books compile the meticulously researched articles into organized narratives, designed to make finding information as easy as possible without sacrificing readability. Each volume is completely up-to-date, and includes a suggested listening guide and an eight-page glossy insert containing relevant illustrations.
Author: Julian Budde
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: verdi, operas
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0198162626
ISBN-13: 9780198162629
The three volumes of studies of Verdi’s operas by Julian Budden are rightly classics of the genre. This is owing to their scope of information on the genesis, circumstances, variants, and specifics of the operas themselves--certainly the fullest description these works have ever been given--as well as to the wealth of surrounding information about the composer, his life, his friends, and his times. It is a measure of the excellence of Budden’s achievement that this cornucopia of information is surveyed in very readable prose--readers get a picture of each work within its context. B
Author: David Cairns
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: operas, mozart
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0520228987
ISBN-13: 9780520228986
David Cairns--winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction--has spent his life immersed in Mozart’s music, both as a performer and as a listener. This intimate biography sheds new and important light on the composer by placing his operas in the context of his life and his complete musical output. Mozart’s unusual childhood as a musical prodigy touring Europe as a performer from an early age is well known. But even more remarkable is that the genius grew up to produce works of increasing maturity and originality. Cairns unravels the many myths
Author: Julian Budden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: vol, verdi, operas
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0198162634
ISBN-13: 9780198162636
Volume Three covers roughly a quarter of a century, a period which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, the reform of the Conservatories, and the spread of cosmopolitan influences to an extent that convinced many that Italian music was losing its identity. Verdi produced his four last and greatest operas--Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Falstaff--in this period, which ended with the advent of "verisimo", in which a new, recognizably Italian idiom was inaugurated.
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Barrytown Limited
Keywords: plays, amp, operas
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1886449163
ISBN-13: 9781886449169
Drama. Paperback edition of the beautifully produced clothbound edition published by BOA Editions ifn 1987. This book reproduces OPERAS & PLAYS as published in the 1932 Plain Edition. "The theater of Gertrude Stein is as radical today as it was seventy years ago. These theatrical exercises developed into a dramaturgy stripped bare of the essentials: plot, character development, scenery, stage directions.... Among the modernist writers, Stein remains the last outpost of industrious textual explication -- " James R. Mellow ("Introduction"). "Think they are waiting for the approach of their h
Author: Julian Budden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: verdi, operas
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1992-09-03
List price: $64.99
ISBN-10: 0198162618
ISBN-13: 9780198162612
Marked by extraordinary research and enhanced by hundreds of musical illustrations, this monumental study follows the development of Verdi’s oeuvre from his earliest opera Oberto to his final work, Falstaff. In writing the first edition of this classic work--which appeared to great acclaim in 1973--Julian Budden mined the vast resources of European archives to provide a groundbreaking interpretation of Verdi’s work, and along the way discovered much new material, including an unpublished additional aria for I Due Foscari. Now available in a revised edition, The Operas of Verdi is
