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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.
This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten.
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...
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.
Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio; This Just In; Grateful Dead; ... Opera in America : a cultural history by Dizikes, John, 1932-Publication date 1993 ... Page_number_module_version 1.0.5 Pages 638 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0300061013 ...
5 lis 2014 · The central issue of the chapter is the need for historians to find ways to address opera’s “complete history,” including the interrelationships of composition, performance, and revisions when writing a historical narrative for opera.
