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Opera In Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics And The Avant-Garde

de Harriet (University Of Nottingham) Boyd-Bennett

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Boyd-Bennett investigates the relationship of music and politics in the aftermath of war and dictatorship. Bringing locality into the study of twentieth-century music by focussing on the Italian and Venetian contexts, she shows how music culture was deeply imbedded in the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the post-war period.
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Dance And Drama In French Baroque Opera - A History

de Rebecca (Cornell University, New York) Harris-Warrick

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this book, Rebecca Harris-Warrick dismantles the prevailing notion that dance in French Baroque opera was merely decorative, and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement is essential to understanding the work. Evolving practices in music, librettos, choreography and staging are brought to bear on sixty years of operatic history.
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The Rival Sirens - Performance And Identity On Handel'S Operatic Stage

de Suzanne (University Of Oxford) Aspden

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This new approach to the operas of Handel examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera. It emphasises cultural context and aspects of performance, offering a range of interpretative tools not previously exploited in studies of the century's opera before Mozart.
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Opera Acts - Singers And Performance In The Late Nineteenth Century

de Karen (City University Of New York) Henson

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Karen Henson uses four detailed case studies to explore a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and to challenge the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer.
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Technology And The Diva - Sopranos, Opera, And Media From Romanticism To The Digital Age

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focusing on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the twenty-first-century digital age, this book considers how the 'diva's' voice and allure have been created by technologies and media such as theatrical stagecraft, journalism, and the simulcast.
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Saint-Saens And The Stage - Operas, Plays, Pageants, A Ballet And A Film

de Hugh (Washington University, St Louis) Macdonald

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Designed as a resource for opera lovers, opera professionals, and music students, this book provides a guide to Saint-SaÃ«ns's twelve operas and a variety of other stage works for those who are curious to know more. It will enhance listeners' experience of recordings of Saint-SaÃ«ns, which are enjoying increased popularity as his centenary approaches.
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Foreign Opera At The London Playhouses - From Mozart To Bellini

de Christina (Ashland University, Ohio) Fuhrmann

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses. This is the first comprehensive study of these adaptations. Christina Fuhrmann reveals how integral these operas are to our understanding of early nineteenth-century theatre, opera and canon formation.
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Opera In Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics And The Avant-Garde

de Harriet (University Of Nottingham) Boyd-Bennett

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Boyd-Bennett investigates the relationship of music and politics in the aftermath of war and dictatorship. Bringing locality into the study of twentieth-century music by focussing on the Italian and Venetian contexts, she shows how music culture was deeply imbedded in the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the post-war period.
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Rounding Wagner'S Mountain - Richard Strauss And Modern German Opera

de Bryan (Duke University, North Carolina) Gilliam

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the first book to discuss all of Strauss' operas, Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss's stage works and their historical contexts.
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Sentimental Opera - Questions Of Genre In The Age Of Bourgeois Drama

de Stefano (University Of Cambridge) Castelvecchi

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Castelvecchi's book is an in-depth study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama - and offers a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system in the age of Mozart.
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Female Singers On The French Stage, 1830â€“1848

de Kimberly (Universite De Montreal) White

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book explores the profession of singing, operatic culture and the representation of female performers on the French stage between 1830 and 1848 to reveal new perspectives on their social status. The book will appeal to scholars of opera, French studies, theatre history, and women's and gender studies.
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Opera And Modern Spectatorship In Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

de Alessandra (Tufts University, Massachusetts) Campana

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Alessandra Campana examines four late nineteenth-century operas, Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, Simon Boccanegra by Verdi, Otello by Verdi and Manon Lescaut by Puccini, and a silent film scored by Mascagni, to explore for the first time how opera participated in the making of a modern public in post-unification Italy.
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Rounding Wagner'S Mountain - Richard Strauss And Modern German Opera

de Bryan Gilliam

38,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the first book to discuss all of Strauss' operas, Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss's stage works and their historical contexts.
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Italian Opera In The Age Of The American Revolution - Cambridge Studies In Opera

de Pierpaolo (University Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Polzonetti

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through their opera glasses? Polzonetti presents a fresh perspective on European cultural reception of American social identity, shedding new light on familiar works by Mozart and Haydn as well as on lesser-known operas, representing groundbreaking research in music, cultural and political history.
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Verdi, Opera, Women - Cambridge Studies In Opera

de Susan (University Of Manchester) Rutherford

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Verdi's operas portray a striking diversity of female protagonists, including warrior women, courtesans, gypsies and feisty townswomen. Contextualising these characters within the social, cultural and political history of their period, Susan Rutherford examines the shifting and complex relationships between them and their female spectators in nineteenth-century Italy.
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Dance And Drama In French Baroque Opera - A History

de Rebecca (Cornell University, New York) Harris-Warrick

208,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In this book, Rebecca Harris-Warrick dismantles the prevailing notion that dance in French Baroque opera was merely decorative, and presents compelling evidence that the divertissement is essential to understanding the work. Evolving practices in music, librettos, choreography and staging are brought to bear on sixty years of operatic history.
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Foreign Opera At The London Playhouses - From Mozart To Bellini

de Christina (Ashland University, Ohio) Fuhrmann

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses. This is the first comprehensive study of these adaptations. Christina Fuhrmann reveals how integral these operas are to our understanding of early nineteenth-century theatre, opera and canon formation.
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Opera In The Age Of Rousseau - Music, Confrontation, Realism

de David (Royal Holloway, University Of London) Charlton

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 David Charlton's book provides the first detailed account of opera in the society of Louis XV, from Rameau to Gluck. Offering many new perspectives on opera's development and Rousseau's contributions to it, the book will be essential to those with interests in music, theatre, literature and pre-Revolution culture.
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Rounding Wagner'S Mountain - Richard Strauss And Modern German Opera

de Bryan Gilliam

38,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the first book to discuss all of Strauss' operas, Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss's stage works and their historical contexts.
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Rounding Wagner'S Mountain - Richard Strauss And Modern German Opera

de Bryan (Duke University, North Carolina) Gilliam

154,11€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Richard Strauss' fifteen operas make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. In the first book to discuss all of Strauss' operas, Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss's stage works and their historical contexts.
INGLÊS

Opera And Modern Spectatorship In Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

de Alessandra (Tufts University, Massachusetts) Campana

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Alessandra Campana examines four late nineteenth-century operas, Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, Simon Boccanegra by Verdi, Otello by Verdi and Manon Lescaut by Puccini, and a silent film scored by Mascagni, to explore for the first time how opera participated in the making of a modern public in post-unification Italy.
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Verdi, Opera, Women

de Susan (University Of Manchester) Rutherford

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Verdi's operas portray a striking diversity of female protagonists, including warrior women, courtesans, gypsies and feisty townswomen. Contextualising these characters within the social, cultural and political history of their period, Susan Rutherford examines the shifting and complex relationships between them and their female spectators in nineteenth-century Italy.
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Sentimental Opera - Questions Of Genre In The Age Of Bourgeois Drama

de Stefano (University Of Cambridge) Castelvecchi

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Castelvecchi's book is an in-depth study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama - and offers a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system in the age of Mozart.
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The Rival Sirens - Performance And Identity On Handel'S Operatic Stage

de Suzanne (University Of Oxford) Aspden

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 This new approach to the operas of Handel examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth-century opera. It emphasises cultural context and aspects of performance, offering a range of interpretative tools not previously exploited in studies of the century's opera before Mozart.
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