(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493819)
Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood. For the first time in English, in a single volume, and in a style that will be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike, leading experts survey a rich legacy of classical mu...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the historical evolution of Bangzi opera, also known as Clapper opera, now collectively referred to as Hebei Bangzi. This form of Chinese opera enjoyed significant popularity primarily in Beijing and Tianjin during the four deca...Loe edasi...
Vanessa L. Rogers, Lisa de Alwis, Janet K Page, Vanessa L. Rogers, Janet K Page, Thomas A Bauman, Daniel Brandenburg, Irene Brandenburg, Rogério Budasz, Michael Burden...
Sari: Eastman Studies in Music
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251399)
Twelve original essays that explore the rich interplay of opera, ballet, and culture in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond and offer new insights into such important figures as Mozart and the castrato Farinelli....Loe edasi...
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Loe edasi...
This book is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today....Loe edasi...
A dazzling portrait of Maria CallasLa Divinawhose voice, passion, and defiance transformed opera and fame, but left her tragically alone in the end....Loe edasi...
Sari: Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226846835)
An exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London, Paris, and New York. At the end of the nineteenth century, London, Paris, and New York were quintessential modern metropolise...Loe edasi...
Sari: Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226843537)
A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner’s operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard Wagner’s Political Ecolo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781966515371)
This generously illustrated survey of 80 halls from the past three centuries is a personal selection by the authors, enriched by recommendations from leading musical authorities. These auditoria combine consistently high standards of performance w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197810934)
Occupying a seminal position in opera and musical theatre, Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954) stands at the vanguard of black operatic music history. One of the earliest American classical composers to infuse scores with jazz, blues, and spirituals,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009466462)
Accounts of crossover forms like popera and musical theatre explore alternative approaches to operatic vocality, considering how entrenched genre ideologies are challenged by creative agents, practices, and technologies at work near operas border...Loe edasi...
Accounts of crossover forms like popera and musical theatre explore alternative approaches to operatic vocality, considering how entrenched genre ideologies are challenged by creative agents, practices, and technologies at work near operas border...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009676618)
At the turn of the twentieth century, operatic singing remained influenced by the lyrical vocal style that prioritised technical precision, tonal beauty, and expressive clarity. From the 1910s onward, composers explored vocal techniques that blurred...Loe edasi...
At the turn of the twentieth century, operatic singing remained influenced by the lyrical vocal style that prioritised technical precision, tonal beauty, and expressive clarity. From the 1910s onward, composers explored vocal techniques that blurred...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197784044)
According to a widely held view in eighteenth-century Britain, Britons were somehow inherently unmusical. This supposed shortcoming was, in fact, a virtue. George Colman explicated this view when he wrote in 1762 that for arts and arms, a Briton is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197787236)
Bellini is the most complete monograph ever published on the life of the composer. Through an in-depth exploration of his works, author Fabrizio Della Seta positions Bellini not only as a creator of memorable melodies, but as a first-rate dr...Loe edasi...
This book studies the communication background, motivation, mode and effect of traditional Chinese opera in the twentieth century, places the phenomenon of traditional Chinese opera communication in the macroenvironment of social change in the twent...Loe edasi...
Opera in Transnational Contexts sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios, and others moving from one locale to anoth...Loe edasi...
Through the examination of participatory theories and practices, Participatory Opera offers a critical analysis of popular descriptions of spectator immersion and participation in contemporary opera, and explores resultant intersections wit...Loe edasi...
Following his allegorical interpretation of Wagners Ring of the Nibelung, this installment of Heises Wagner project demonstrates how the composer employed key facets of the plots of The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin in building the al...Loe edasi...
Operafilm is a new word for an emerging, auteur-led gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, in which music, film, and performance are combined to sustain intellectually and aesthetically coherent metamodernist narratives. In this form of...Loe edasi...
From the most imaginative director in the US (The New York Times) comes this generational work with a vision for transforming opera into a powerhouse cultural phenomenon...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Syracuse University Press, ISBN-13: 9780815612056)
In 2010, Carlisle Floyd, one of American opera’s most titanic talents, found himself at an impasse. Caring for family and with few leads as to his next project, he unexpectedly found a spark of inspiration in the story of Edward Kynaston. This sev...Loe edasi...
This book traces the history of jingju (Beijing/Peking opera) from its origin during the 1790s to the present through three lenses. First, it introduces the stage practices that shape a jingju production, and details for the reader the practitioner...Loe edasi...
From its origins in the poetic tradition and its refinement in the southern salons of the 16th century, to its 18th-century theatrical heyday and patriotic revival in modern times, this book introduces Kunqu and its enduring role in shap...Loe edasi...
