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  • Weep, Shudder, Die

    A Guide to Loving Opera

    by Robert Levine ...
    "Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera. . . . [Levine] distills a lifetime of passion and insight into this immenselyenjoyable survey, and with the right comic touch to make you wonder how operaever seemed intimidating." —Thomas May, author of Decoding WagnerDespitethe popular success of the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series, opera’s grandworld of soaring ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Inner Voice

    The Making of a Singer

    The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear on performances that have captivated audiences in opera houses and recital halls throughout the world. In The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    by Alex Ross ...
    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Night at the Opera

    An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings

    “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London)With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Verdi: libretti of 27 operas

    This file includes: Aida, Alzira, Aroldo, Attila, Don Carlo, Ernani, Falstaff, Giovanni d'Arco, I Due Foscari, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I Masnadieri, I Vespri Sciliani, Il Corsaro, Il Trovatore, La Battaglia de Legnano, La Forza di Destino, La Traviata, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Nabucco, Oberto, Otello, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, Un Ballo in Maschera, and Un Giorno di Regno. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opera 101

    A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

    by Fred Plotkin ...
    Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wagner Without Fear

    Learning to Love--and Even Enjoy--Opera's Most Demanding Genius

    Do you cringe when your opera-loving friends start raving about the latest production of Tristan? Do you feel faint just thinking about the six-hour performance of Parsifal you were given tickets to? Does your mate accuse you of having a Tannhäuser complex? If you're baffled by the behavior of Wagner worshipers, if you've longed to fathom the mysteries of Wagner's ever-increasing popularity, or if ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Roland Hayes

    The Legacy of an American Tenor

    A “gripping, sensitive” biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson (The Atlanta Voice).Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man to reach international fame as a concert performer. He became one of the few artists in the world who could sell ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wagner: libretti of 13 operas

    This file includes (in the original German): Das Liebesverbot; Der Fliegende Holländer; Die Feen; Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg; Lohengrin Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung); Parsifal; Rienzi; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mad Love

    An Introduction to Opera

    A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first centuryThere are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Handel's Bestiary

    In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas

    by Donna Leon ...
    A “real tour de force” exploring the mythic history of animals in Handel’s operas complete with illustrations and audio recordings of the composer’s arias (News—Austria).When New York Times–bestselling novelist Donna Leon isn’t writing her Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, she often listens to her favorite composer, George Frideric Handel. Leon noticed that Handel frequently references animals ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Verdi With a Vengeance

    An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera

    Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 100 Great Operas And Their Stories

    Act-By-Act Synopses

    An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written.From La Traviata to Aïda, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world’s best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of Opera

    “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary SupplementWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it ... Read more

    $32.99 USD $17.99 USD

  • The Wagner Clan

    The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family

    by Jonathan Carr ...
    This chronicle of renowned composer Richard Wagner and his descendants features “a cast of characters who are positively operatic in their histrionics” (The Guardian).Richard Wagner was many things—composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite—and his descendants have carried on his complex legacy.In his “lively and wry” history of the legendary composer and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voice Training - How To Improve Your Singing Voice Fast. Singing Tips From The Voice Coach

    by John Little ...
    Are you someone who simply loves to sing? Do you constantly find yourself humming or singing along to the music that is playing in your car, something that comes on your iPod or even the music that is being piped into your favorite shops and eateries?You may even be someone who is a more serious singer that has some strong career plans and wants to become the best that you can be. No matter what ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Phantom of the Opera

    by Gaston Leroux ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance her singing rises to new heights and she is triumphantly acclaimed. But Christine is also loved by Raoul de Chagny, and by returning his love she makes the fiend she knows as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Toughest Show on Earth

    The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager.Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Puccini Without Excuses

    A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer

    Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini’s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of such works as Tosca, La Bohéme, and Madama Butterfly has never waned, he has long been a victim of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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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  • Cinderella and Company

    Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli

    A wickedly funny look at opera today--the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos--and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career.In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has captured an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Verdi's Shakespeare

    Men of the Theater

    by Garry Wills ...
    A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation.In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but adored Shakespeare, Verdi ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wagner

    ‘A fine, intellectually sparkling and always engaging little book – a welcome addition to any Wagner library’Hans Vaget, Opera QuarterlyWhilst no one would dispute Wagner’s ranking among the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than those of any other composer. His supposed personal defects have provoked intense hostility which has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD