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1 wrz 2020 · This book--the first comprehensive cultural and social history of musical theater in the United States--includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences, and theaters throughout the country from 1735 to the present day.
Opera, Opera's, Zangers, Opéra, Oper, Operas History, United States, Opera -- United States, Opéra -- États-Unis, Opéra -- Aspect social -- États-Unis, USA Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press Collection printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 900993418
The first lays out what one sees and hears at an opera: how people dress, both cast members and audience; the design and acoustics of the house; and the types of music heard (solo arias, ensembles, orchestral music, dance). He draws examples from various operas to illustrate his points.
8 gru 2020 · The Operatic Archive explores opera’s potential as a means of historical kno wing, grounding its arguments in a number of operas based on historical subjects. The work is divided into five...
4 lut 2020 · Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth ...
pepper operatic history. An emerging new tenor voice coincided with Gioachino Rossini's farewell to operatic composition in 1829, not yet in his forties and at the height of his European fame. Rossini, we should recall, wrote only a single part for a heroic tenor, and that was in a French grand opera, Guillaume Tell.
This article presents and examines previously unpublished artefacts associated with the first performance of a Händel opera in America to consider its homemade nature and the significance of homemade music within the context of the early music revival.
