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  • Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nebelungen Vernacularized Into American

    Why a vernacularization? While a giant of composition, as a librettist, Wagner stunk. The wordiest of wordy birdies, he might use a paragraph to say yes or half a page to say maybe. Then he grossly over spiced his libretti with adjectives, repetitious phrases, arcane words and meaningless blather to fill in the music, making his ‘little books’ less for poring over, than for snoring over. And that ... Read more

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  • La donna del Nabucco Storia in breve della vita di Giuseppina Strepponi

    by Maria Moretti ...
    La vita di Giuseppina Strepponi lungo i suoi 82 anni di vita ricostruita, tramite un'approfondita e appassionata ricerca storiografica condotta dalla conterranea Maria Moretti, anch'essa lodigiana.Ne emerge un ritratto di donna calata nella propria epoca che va al di là della famosa soprano e della compagna e poi sposa di Giuseppe Verdi: dal sostentamento garantito alla famiglia, calcando i ... Read more

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  • Il terzo libro dei Mottetti a sei voci (Milano, 1598) di Orfeo Vecchi

    Introduzione storico-analitica ed edizione critica

    Le profil humain et artistique de Orfeo Vecchi est encadré dans la réalité liturgique et musicale de son temps et on mit à disposition des chercheurs et des musiciens l’édition critique du troisième livre des motets a six voix précédées d’une analyse des témoins, des motets et de la présentation des caractéristiques musicales de chaque composition. ... Read more

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  • Cartea despre demnitate

    The articles were put together in a book, and this proved to be an attempt full of surprises and emotions. Because their being published in a chronological order made this blog a kind of diary. As I was collecting the information, I wrote, I commented and I incited the people to live the same emotions as I was living. I did not intend to exhaust the subject of anticommunist resistance, on the ... Read more

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  • O conceito de imitação na ópera francesa do século XVIII

    by Rodrigo Lopes ...
    "Este livro estuda o conceito de imitação na ópera francesa do século XVIII. Para tal, observou-se que o conceito de imitação foi muito forte na orientação das artes e da ópera até o século XVIII. A França, nessa época, demorou mais tempo para se distanciar das regras das teorias imitativas do que países como a Itália e a Inglaterra, que já se conduziam por outros paradigmas na orientação das ... Read more

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  • 250 Anecdotes About Opera

    by David Bruce ...
    Series series Anecdotes Collections
    This book contains 250 anecdotes about opera, including these anecdotes: 1) When Pierre Monteux started working at the Metropolitan Opera, he decided to buy a shiny Ford touring-car. He paid $300 for the car, which he was proud of at first, although it looked modest when parked beside the luxurious cars of the stars of the Met. However, the car did give Mr. Monteux trouble. One day, as he was ... Read more

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  • Middlebrow Modernism

    Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide

    Series Book 24 - California Studies in 20th-Century Music
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Situated at the intersections of twentieth-century music history, historiography, and aesthetics, Middlebrow Modernism uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics, and audiences mediated the ... Read more

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  • Turandot

    guida al libretto

    Series Book 1 - Conferenze
    Il libretto di Turandot si presenta incomprensibile e cruento. Per gustare meglio il capolavoro di Puccini conviene scavare a fondo sino a pervenire alle origini della fiaba, ed è allora che si dispiega tutto il fascino della trama. ... Read more

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  • The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

    The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825).Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first ... Read more

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  • The Operas of Richard Wagner Vernacularized Into American

    This comes in three parts: A short bio of the unusual facts about Richard Wagner, then a precise and libretto in American for Die Feen, Wagner's first opera and a total flop. Its libretto is included that you might see how he progressed in his writing style. This is followed by a precise of Das Liebesverbot and Rienzi without librettos as they're almost never played today, and then the rest of the ... Read more

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  • Berlioz in Time

    From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown

    Series Book 183 - Eastman Studies in Music
    Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Mémoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars, these essays probe some of Berlioz's major works, including the Symphonie fantastique (the period of whose genesis is newly explored), Les Nuits d'été ... Read more

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  • Physiologie de l'Opéra, du Carnaval, du Cancan et de la Cachucha

    Par un vilain masque

    by Anonyme, Ligaran ...
    Extrait : "OHÉ ! les badouillards, les chicards, les fambards, les braillards, les balochards ! Joyeuses sociétés, levez-vous ! Réunions folifiantes, microbolantes, enivrantes et souvent enivrées ! - Debout ! debout ! Allons ! allons ! des costumes gracieux, de jolies femmes, du vin mousseux, du punch brûlant..."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de ... Read more

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  • The Phantom of the Opera (Collins Classics)

    by Gaston Leroux ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!’Living secretly beneath the Paris Opera House, 'The Phantom of the Opera', Erik has haunted those who work there with his demands and shrouded the opera house in fear with the ... Read more

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  • A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

    "The history of what is popularly called Italian opera begins in the United States with a performance of Rossini's lyrical comedy "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"; it may, therefore, fittingly take the first place in these operatic studies. The place was the Park Theatre, then situated in Chambers Street, east of Broadway, and the date November 29, 1825. It was not the first performance of Italian opera ... Read more

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  • L'assassino va in scena

    Mozart è il filo conduttore di una serie di efferati omicidi.Saverio, un famoso organista, si trova coinvolto nelle indagini, ad aiutarlo un prezioso amico e un simpatico cane.I tre detective in erba e Schneider, il tenace ispettore di polizia, dovranno districarsi tra dettagli curiosi e cifrari segreti, immersi nella stupenda cornice della città di Salisburgo che non si limiterà a fare da sfondo ... Read more

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  • The Opera, a sketch of the development of opera, with full descriptions of all works in the modern repertory

    "If Music be, among the arts, 'Heaven's youngest-teemed star', the latest of the art-forms she herself has brought forth is unquestionably Opera. Three hundred years does not at first seem a very short time, but it is not long when it covers the whole period of the inception, development, and what certainly looks like the decadence, of an important branch of man's artistic industry. The art of ... Read more

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  • Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

    by H. R. Hawreis ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works." "Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 July 31, ... Read more

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  • A Plot Summary of Mozart's Opera Don Giovanni

    A plot summary of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. With Italian text and English translation of the Catalogue Aria, the duet between Don Giovanni and Zerlina, and the visit of the stone guest ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Wagnerite: a Commentary on the Niblung's Ring

    According to the Preface: "This book is a commentary on The Ring of the Niblungs, Wagner's chief work. I offer it to those enthusiastic admirers of Wagner who are unable to follow his ideas, and do not in the least understand the dilemma of Wotan, though they are filled with indignation at the irreverence of the Philistines who frankly avow that they find the remarks of the god too often tedious ... Read more

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  • The Wagnerian Romances

    by Gertrude Hall ...
    Chapters cover: PARSIFAL, THE RHINE-GOLD, THE VALKYRIE (DIE WALKÜRE), SIEGFRIED, THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (DIE GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG), THE MASTER-SINGERS OF NUREMBERG, TRISTAN AND ISOLDE, LOHENGRIN, TANNHÄUSER, and THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany – 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and ... Read more

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  • Sapho

    Opéra en quatre actes, cinq tableaux

    Extrait : "'CHŒUR PROCESSIONNEL. O Jupiter, si tu te plais aux jeux, / Aux jeux sacrés que célèbre Olympie, / Ne permets pas le triomphe à l'impie, / Ne permets pas la honte aux courageux !' Entre le cortège d'un Athlète vainqueur. LE CORTÈGE. Pétrissons le miel avec l'orge ! / Gloire au vainqueur de trois combats ! / Ses rivaux serrés à la gorge, / Jusqu'à la mort n'oublieront pas / Que le rude ... Read more

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  • Marie Malibran

    Histoire d'une cantatrice

    Extrait : "Ainsi les poètes chantent les artistes. Ainsi Lamartine chantait la Malibran au moment où celle-ci, succombant dans son printemps aux suites d'un accident dramatique dont la nouvelle avait terrifié l'Europe, venait de quitter la terre, emportant avec elle le secret des accents si souverainement pathétiques qui avaient ému, séduit et fasciné toute une génération."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS ... Read more

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  • Siegfried & The Twilight of The Gods

    "Siegfried & The Twilight of The Gods" is a monumental opera composed by Richard Wagner, forming the third and fourth parts of his renowned Ring Cycle. This epic narrative follows the heroic journey of Siegfried, a fearless young hero destined to conquer evil and restore balance to the world. Filled with captivating music, mythical themes, and Wagner's visionary storytelling, the opera explores ... Read more

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  • Mozart: libretti of 19 operas

    This file includes: Apollo et Hyacinthus (in Latin); Ascanio in Alba (in Italian); Bastien und Bastienne (in German); Cosi fan tutte (in Italian); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in German); Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe (in German); Die Zauberfloete (in German); Don Giovanni o l'empio punito (in Italian); Idomeneo Re di Creta (in Italian); Il re pastore (in Italian); Il sogno di Scipione (in Italian); ... Read more

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