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Singers of Italian Opera
Author | : John Rosselli |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1995-03-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521426979 |
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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.
Cantare Italiano The Language of Opera
Author | : Sara Gamarro |
Publsiher | : Rugginenti Editore |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9788876652615 |
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This book is a complete guide to the magic spells that the lyric diction of Italian Opera has cast on its audience for the last four hundred years, revealed and explained in their secrets by the author through an exact method of study whose effectiveness has been proven, over more than a decade of coaching activity, on her many students - Opera stars included - all over the world.
The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart s Vienna
Author | : Dorothea Link |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2022-11-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780252053658 |
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Dorothea Link examines singers’ voices and casting practices in late eighteenth-century Italian opera as exemplified in Vienna’s court opera from 1783 to 1791. The investigation into the singers’ voices proceeds on two levels: understanding the performers in terms of the vocal-dramatic categories employed in opera at the time; and creating vocal profiles for the principal singers from the music composed expressly for them. In addition, Link contextualizes the singers within the company in order to expose the court opera's casting practices. Authoritative and insightful, The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna offers a singular look at a musical milieu and a key to addressing the performance-practice problem of how to cast the Mozart roles today.
Tito Gobbi on His World of Italian Opera
Author | : Tito Gobbi |
Publsiher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : UOM:39015009442651 |
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Divas and Scholars
Author | : Philip Gossett |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 699 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226304885 |
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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.
Understanding Italian Opera
Author | : Tim Carter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780190247942 |
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"Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohaeme"--Dust jacket flap.
Nineteenth century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini
Author | : Danièle Pistone |
Publsiher | : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : UOM:39015034415649 |
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Intended for the performer and general music lover as well as for students and musicologists, this three-part retrospective of Italian opera of the romantic era focuses on the settings, characters, and styles of the librettos; the voices, orchestration, and formal structure of the music; and the contemporary exigencies of the performance itself, moving from behind-the-scenes administration and artistry to the front-and-center interpreters and the audiences they played to. More than 120 musical examples support the text, the majority of them in an alphabetical appendix of "Famous Melodies", which includes the themes of popular arias along with captions detailing the operas, the composers, the acts in which the melodies occur, and the characters who sing them. The book also includes appendices of main characters, celebrated singers and conductors, and principal librettists; a glossary; and a note on Italian pronunciation. Numerous illustrations and tables, an exhaustive topical bibliography, and a select, current CD discography round out this informative introduction to opera's golden age.
Essays on Handel and Italian Opera
Author | : Reinhard Strohm |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-10-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521088356 |
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Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.