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Opera Stories from Wagner
Florence Akin
Paperback - $27.95
Because, replied Loki, "the gold can be made into a magic ring; if the one who would make the ring will forever give up all love, the magic ring will make its owner master of the whole wide world. Alberich declared that love was nothing to him if he ...
Berlioz's Semi-Operas : Romeo Et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust
Daniel Albright
Hardcover - $159.95
This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire Romantic Movement, not least because they assault the notion of genre: they take place in a sort of limbo between symphony and opera, and try to fulfill the highest goals o ...
The Standard Operaglass : Detailed Plots of the Celebrated Operas
Charles Annesley
Paperback - $65.95
Contains the detailed plots of over one hundred celebrated operas with critical and biographical remarks, dates, and other information.
Donizetti and His Operas
William Ashbrook
Paperback - $191.95
This new imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles that would normally appear only in hardback editions for specialists, but whose quality and genera ...
Puccini's Turandot : The End of the Great Tradition
William Ashbrook
Paperback - $65.95
Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, "Turandot" was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that despite the modern ...
Operas Every Child Should Know
Dolores Bacon
Paperback - $59.95
Found in this work are descriptions of the text and music of some of the most famous masterpieces. The opera is never more enjoyed than by a music lover who is incapable of criticism from lack of musical knowledge: music being first and last an emoti ...
The Story of Giuseppe Verdi : Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera
Gabriele Baldini
Paperback - $82.95
Abitare la battaglia, Gabriele Baldini's study of the operas of Verdi from Oberto to Un ballo in maschera, has, since its posthumous publication in 1970, received much critical acclaim both in Italy and elsewhere. Its lack of technical language makes ...
The Cambridge Companion to Verdi
Scott Balthazar
Paperback - $59.95
This Companion provides an accessible introduction to Verdi??'s life and music.
The Making of Peter Grimes : Essays
Paul Banks
Paperback - $78.95
The premiere of Peter Grimes on 7 June 1945 announced the emergence of the first great composer of opera in English since Purcell. Surviving documents offer evidence of the complex interaction of differing ideas about the possible shape and content o ...
Tenors, Tantrums and Trills : An Opera Dictionary from Aida to Zzzz
David Barber
Paperback - $26.95
Here's the lowdown on the highbrow world of operatic success and excess. Sometimes kooky, sometimes caustic, always clever, the definitions cover the whole gamut of operatic performances.