Wagner Androgyne

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera
• That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez i... Lees meer

Music in the Theater

Pierluigi Petrobelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera
• Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attenti... Lees meer

Puccini's Turandot

William Ashbrook, Harold Powers

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 5
• Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international ... Lees meer

Mad Loves

Heather Hadlock

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 16
• In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's ca... Lees meer

Music in the Theater

Pierluigi Petrobelli

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera
• Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attenti... Lees meer

Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen

David J Levin

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 14
• This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-S... Lees meer

Leonora's Last ACT

Roger L Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 8
• In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both ... Lees meer

Siren Songs

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 15
• It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. Siren Songs is the first collection of articles devoted to exploring the impact of this sexual ob... Lees meer

Metaphysical Song

Gary Tomlinson

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 12
• In this bold recasting of operatic history, Gary Tomlinson connects opera to shifting visions of metaphysics and selfhood across the last four hundred... Lees meer

In Search of Opera

Carolyn Abbate

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 19
• In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi ... Lees meer

Mad Loves

Heather Hadlock

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 16
• In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's ca... Lees meer

Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle"

Marian Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 21
• Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the... Lees meer

Unsung Voices

Carolyn Abbate

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 1
• Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-ce... Lees meer

Reading Opera

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera
• "Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical... Lees meer

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

Mary Hunter

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 13
• Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da... Lees meer

Vocal Apparitions

Michal Grover-Friedlander

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Studies in Opera | nr. 20
• Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection... Lees meer