Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Download or read book The Memoirs of J Decastro Comedian written by Jacob Decastro and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Volume 4 Corye to Dynion written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.
Download or read book Opera Librettists and Their Works A L written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660 1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs with life of Philip Astley the history of the Royal Circus a sketch of Sadler s Wells advertisements etc written by Jacob de Castro and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama 1750 1800 written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 Author list composer list and aria index written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera in London written by Theodore Fenner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians A D 1450 1889 by Eminent Writers English and Foreign written by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by G. Grove and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1940 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
