Understanding Italian Opera
Title | Understanding Italian Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Carter |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190247940 |
Opera has long fascinated creative artists and audiences alike. It is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art, yet it is also shrouded in mystique. Understanding Italian Opera unravels its many layers by looking closely at five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas from Monteverdi to Puccini.
Hidden Lives, Public Personae
Title | Hidden Lives, Public Personae PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Ann Hemelrijk |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN | 9780190247973 |
This study discusses women's participation in civic life in the cities of Italy and the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire from the late first century BC to the late third century AD (roughly the Roman Principate). Excluding empresses and other women of the imperial family, it focuses on the civic roles of non-imperial women in Italian and provincial towns on the basis of a corpus of approximately 1,400 inscriptions and, to a lesser extent, honorific portrait statues.
Italian Opera
Title | Italian Opera PDF eBook |
Author | David R. B. Kimbell |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521466431 |
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Divas and Scholars
Title | Divas and Scholars PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Gossett |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 699 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0226304884 |
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.
Singers of Italian Opera
Title | Singers of Italian Opera PDF eBook |
Author | John Rosselli |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1995-03-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521426978 |
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
Title | Some Forerunners of Italian Opera PDF eBook |
Author | W. J. Henderson |
Publisher | Good Press |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2020-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"Some Forerunners of Italian Opera" by W. J. Henderson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Opera 101
Title | Opera 101 PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Plotkin |
Publisher | Hyperion |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1994-12 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Written by an opera insider and featuring an introduction by Placido Domingo, here is a thorough, friendly, and truly complete guide to learning how to love and appreciate the opera. After a brief history of opera, the book includes a guide to operatic terms, a minute-by-minute listener's guide to 11 central works, a list of recommended books and recordings and much more.