Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Alessandra Campana

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to ... Lees meer

Opera in the Age of Rousseau

David Charlton

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particul... Lees meer

Johann Strauss and Vienna

Camille Crittenden

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, V... Lees meer

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera

Emanuele Senici

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpi... Lees meer

Rounding Wagner's Mountain

Bryan Gilliam

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth... Lees meer

Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera

Emanuele Senici

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpi... Lees meer

The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930

Susan Rutherford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• This book is concerned not so much with the 'prima donna' as with prime donne: a group of working artists (sometimes famous but more often relatively ... Lees meer

Three Modes of Perception in Mozart

Edmund J Goehring

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Cosi fan tutte is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera with Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Edmund Goehring presents a new perspecti... Lees meer

The Puccini Problem

Alexandra Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but f... Lees meer

Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France

Diana R Hallman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• This is the first critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) a powerful and successful work by the leadi... Lees meer

The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815 1930

Susan Rutherford, Rutherford Susan

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• This book is concerned not so much with the 'prima donna' as with prime donne: a group of working artists (sometimes famous but more often relatively ... Lees meer

Rounding Wagner's Mountain

Bryan Gilliam

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth... Lees meer

Sentimental Opera

Stefano Castelvecchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibilit... Lees meer

When Opera Meets Film

Marcia J Citron

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Opera can reveal something fundamental about a film, and film can do the same for an opera, argues Marcia J. Citron. Structured by the categories of S... Lees meer

Situating Opera

Herbert Lindenberger

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape ... Lees meer

Opera in Postwar Venice

Harriet Boyd-Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's... Lees meer

Johann Strauss and Vienna

Camille Crittenden

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, V... Lees meer

Technology and the Diva

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technolo... Lees meer

The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata

Emilio Sala

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of th... Lees meer

Sentimental Opera

Stefano Castelvecchi

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibilit... Lees meer

Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785

Downing A Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• This is the first study to recognize the wider picture of opera within early-modern French culture. Downing Thomas considers the place of music within... Lees meer

Saint-Saëns and the Stage

Hugh MacDonald

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• The stage works of Saint-Saëns range from grand open-air pageants to one-act comic operas, and include the first composed film score. Yet, with the ex... Lees meer

Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu

Johnson Victoria

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, ... Lees meer

Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution

Pierpaolo Polzonetti

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Opera
• How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through their opera glasses? The operas studied in this volume are populated by gun-toting ... Lees meer