Download or read book Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture written by Laurence Senelick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a fresh and global perspective on the works and influence of a nineteenth-century musical and theatrical phenomenon.

Download or read book Offenbach s Songs from the Great Operettas written by Jacques Offenbach and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert compilation of original sheet music features 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. Complete French texts to selections from Orpheé aux enfers, La belle Hélène, and other operettas, plus English translations.

Download or read book Hoffmanns Erz hlungen written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach written by James Harding and published by Calder Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach written by Anton Henseler and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography, published in Germany in 1930 on the 50th anniversary of Offenbach's death, was the first to focus on the composer in scholarly depth. It provides a great deal of analysis and information on the influences of Offenbach's childhood in Cologne, as well as detailed discussions of his work. The book has been long out-of-print and is very difficult to find. This English translation, done to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Offenbach's birth, makes this important biography available again to a wider audience.

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach written by Richard Northcott and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach written by Paul Bekker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time written by Siegfried Kracauer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of composer Jacques Offenbach that is also a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris.Siegfried Kracauer's biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach is a remarkable work of social and cultural history. First published in German in 1937 and in English translation in 1938, the book uses the life and work of Offenbach as a focal point for a broad and penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism that pervaded Paris in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach's productions must be understood as more than glittering distractions. The fantasy realms of such operettas as La Belle H l ne were as one with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but they also made a mockery of the pomp and pretense surrounding the apparatuses of power. At the same time, Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times. This edition includes Kracauer's preface to the original German edition as well as a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch.

Download or read book Mad Loves written by Heather Hadlock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject. Les Contes d'Hoffmann is also examined as both a continuation and a retraction of tendencies in Offenbach's earlier operettas and opéra-comiques. Hadlock investigates the political climate of the 1870s that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights from feminist, literary, and cultural theory, she considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a complex literary and theatrical tradition. Finally, Hadlock ponders the enigmas posed by the score of this unfinished opera, which has been completed many times and by many different hands since its composer's death shortly before the premiere in 1881. In this book, the "mad loves" that drive Les Contes d'Hoffmann--a poet's love, a daughter's love, erotic love, and fatal attraction to music--become figures for the fascination exercised by opera itself.

Download or read book Offenbach in America written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Transcription and Discussion of Jacques Offenbach s Souvenir D Aix les Bains Valses written by Charles Patrick Desmond Cronin and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Offenbach in America Notes of a Travelling Musician written by Jacques Offenbach and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Download or read book The Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jacques Offenbach written by Alexander Faris and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1981 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les Contes D Hoffmann written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cancan and Barcarolle written by Arthur Moss and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Offenbach Performance in Budapest 1920 1956 written by Péter Bozó and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a legacy of the Habsburg Empire, performances of Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works played an important role in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth century. However, between the collapse of the Empire and the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, political ideologies strongly influenced the character of these productions, when they took place. Public performances of Offenbach's works were prohibited between 1938 and 1945 and they became the bases for propagandadistic adaptations in the 1950s. This element explores how the local operetta tradition and the vogue of operettas featuring composers as characters during the interwar period were also important factors in how Offenbach's stage works were performed in mid-twentieth century Budapest in versions that sometimes bore little resemblance to the originals.