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A Night at the Opera
Author | : Sir Denis Forman |
Publsiher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 1998-09-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780375751769 |
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“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
Reminiscences of the Opera
Author | : Benjamin Lumley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : HARVARD:HN4XYN |
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A memoir of the director of Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera
Author | : Giorgio Bagnoli |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : 9780671870423 |
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Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.
The Favorite Songs in the Opera Berenice A Pasticcio No 1
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1765 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023143627 |
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The Phantom of the Opera
Author | : Gaston Leroux |
Publsiher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307432483 |
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In 1910, the mystery novelist Gaston Leroux, working from scraps of history, theatrical lore, and his own fertile imagination, created a masterpiece in Le fantôme de l’opéra, the story of a disfigured composer who lives in the labyrinthine depths of the Paris Opera. After the breathtaking debut of Christine Daaé, the whispers of an Opera ghost seem to become reality as the young singer vanishes. As the Phantom strikes again and again, targeting foes from a jealous diva to a romantic rival, Leroux spins a thriller of obsession and violence with, at its center, a tormented murderer who awakens our deepest fears and sympathies. The inspiration for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical, Leroux’s novel is still more riveting than anything Broadway could produce.
Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
Author | : Nancy November |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2024-01-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781009409803 |
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A unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making provided by the study of domestic musical arrangements of opera.
Between Opera and Cinema
Author | : Jeongwon Joe,Rose Theresa |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781136534072 |
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Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.
Cinema s Illusions Opera s Allure
Author | : David Schroeder |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781474291415 |
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The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways – some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre – in which this has happened. The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence – a formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith, DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited this possibility. Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of films.