Richard Strauss

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• The contributions to this handbook bring together a full-length study of Elektra in English. The volume examines the many facets of one of Richard Str... Lees meer

Richard Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This handbook provides an in-depth account of the origins, style, and performance history of Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman), universall... Lees meer

W. A. Mozart

Bruce Alan Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• At once the most light-hearted and most disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic operas, Così fan tutte has provoked widely differing reactio... Lees meer

W. A. Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito

John A Rice

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This is the first book to be devoted to Mozart's opera, La clemenza di Tito. Rice considers the opera from a variety of historical and critical viewpo... Lees meer

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Caryl Emerson, Robert Oldani

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Caryl Emerson, a literary specialist, and Robert William Oldani, a music historian, take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera... Lees meer

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov

Caryl Emerson, Emerson Caryl, Oldani Robert William

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Caryl Emerson, a literary specialist, and Robert William Oldani, a music historian, take a new and comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera... Lees meer

Kurt Weill

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a... Lees meer

Richard Wagner, Parsifal

Lucy Beckett

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• In this book Lucy Beckett gives a comprehensive account of Wagner's last and strangest opera. The literary sources of this work, its many links with W... Lees meer

Benjamin Britten

Peter Grimes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 19... Lees meer

C.W. Von Gluck, Orfeo

Patricia Howard

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popula... Lees meer

Hector Berlioz

Ian Kemp

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has thr... Lees meer

Richard Wagner

John Warrack

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This book presents a lively and informative account of Die Meistersinger von NÜrnberg, including its literary sources and the evolution of the text fr... Lees meer

Richard Strauss, Salome

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This full-length study of Salome is the first in English since Lawrence Gilman's introductory guide of 1907. The handbook presents an informative coll... Lees meer

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Mosco Carner

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in i... Lees meer

Leos Janacek

Tyrrell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Kát'a Kabanová is both the first Janácek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and th... Lees meer

Alban Berg, Wozzeck

Douglas Jarman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Alban Berg's Wozzeck is one of the most significant operas of the twentieth century. Douglas Jarman's study provides a clear and accessible introducti... Lees meer

Richard Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of... Lees meer

Richard Wagner

John Warrack

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This book presents a lively and informative account of Die Meistersinger von NÜrnberg, including its literary sources and the evolution of the text fr... Lees meer

Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress

Paul Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libr... Lees meer

W.A. Mozart, Le Nozze Di Figaro

Tim (Royal Holloway, University of London) Carter

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This handbook provides the reader with the first comprehensive guide to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Tim Carter discusses the composition of the opera... Lees meer

W. A. Mozart

Peter Branscombe

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Few operas have had more written about them than Die Zauberflöte, yet few are as often exposed to misguided comment--or to idiosyncratic productions. ... Lees meer

W. A. Mozart: Idomeneo

Julian Rushton

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Idomeneo, by common consent Mozart's greatest opera seria, is a rich synthesis of the dramatic potentialities of Italian opera seria, French tragédie ... Lees meer

Vincenzo Bellini

David Kimbell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Norma is by common consent the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career. Professor Kimbell provides the biographical a... Lees meer

Alban Berg

Douglas Jarman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• This book is a guide to Berg's second opera, Lulu, written in non-technical language and intended for those students and music lovers wishing to becom... Lees meer