Download or read book Placido Domingo and The Royal Opera written by Cristina Franchi and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Placido Domingo, one of the legendary opera singers of our time, is the subject of this first opera book in the Royal Opera House Heritage Series. Placido Domingo and The Royal Opera focuses on the special relationship Domingo has enjoyed with the Company and with the Royal Opera House since his debut in 1971. Domingo's career has been characterised by the range of his roles and by the honing of his dramatic skills as a performer, although never at the expense of his voice. His extraordinary range as a tenor is illustrated in over 20 roles he has sung with The Royal Opera from the Italian and French repertory, as well as from Wagner and Tchaikovsky." "Domingo has also appeared on the other side of the curtain, making his British conducting debut with The Royal Opera in 1983. Since then he was conducted several works with The Royal Opera and in 2003 he achieved a rare double: singing Caino in four performances of Pagliacci and conducting Dennis O'Neill as Canio is a further three performances." "This book illustrates all aspects of Domingo's work with The Royal Opera: in rehearsal, in performance, on the Big Screen and backstage after galas. It also includes a selection of family photographs lent by the Domingos."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Simon Boccanegra written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Ricordi - Bmg Ricordi. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: inch....this work is likely to become a standart work very quickly and is to be recommended to all schools where recorder studies are undertaken inch. (Oliver James,Contact Magazine) A novel and comprehensive approach to transferring from the C to F instrument. 430 music examples include folk and national songs (some in two parts), country dance tunes and excerpts from the standard treble repertoire ofBach, Barsanti, Corelli, Handel, Telemann, etc. An outstanding feature of the book has proved to be Brian Bonsor's brilliantly simple but highly effective practice circles and recognition squares designed to give, in only a few minutes, concentrated practice on the more usual leaps to and from each new note and instant recognition of random notes. Quickly emulating the outstanding success of the descant tutors, these books are very popular even with those who normally use tutors other than the Enjoy the Recorder series.
Download or read book A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection on Compact Discs for Libraries written by Kenyon C. Rosenberg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists classical and operatic recordings that are specifically available in the new (and desirable) compact disc format. Individual titles are graded for their appropriateness to specific types and sizes of libraries. The main portion covers some 160 composers whose works are important in constituting a nuclear library collection of "serious" music. There are over 1,200 titles included and individually numbered (and fully cross-referenced) and graded. For numerous works, two or more performances are cited in order to provide the librarian with greater choices; monophonic works are specifically indicated. Many of the works are annotated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Pl cido Domingo s Tales from the Opera written by Daniel Snowman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Placido Domingo has been one of the greatest stars in the operatic firmament for over a quarter of a century, a man whose combination of vocal, dramatic and musical gifts is probably unmatched in the history of opera. A massive public has learnt to revere his legendary portrayals, while millions all over the world know and love his art through television, film and an immense discography." "What the public does not see is the detailed preparation and concentrated hard work that lie behind these towering performances. Now, Daniel Snowman takes us inside the rehearsal room and shows us something of the humour, the pathos, the tensions and the sheer hard work as the clock ticks away and the first night approaches." "In a wide-ranging book, Snowman considers Domingo's vocal qualities, the nature and depth of his musicianship, his abilities as an actor and something of the inner motivation that has enabled him to achieve so much for so long."--Jacket.
Download or read book Saint Sa ns and the Stage written by Hugh Macdonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major study of Saint-Saëns's stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.
Download or read book My Operatic Roles written by Plácido Domingo and published by Baskerville Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was produced for Placido Domingo's 60th birthday and the 40th anniversary of his debut in a major role (Alfredo in La Traviata in 1961). It is a portrait of the artist in his own words, through his own portrayals of the various operatic heroes he has so grippingly and hauntingly brought to life over the years. The series of interviews took place all over the world over several years, from Seville to New York to Vienna and home in Acapulco. They trace his journey into each of his 62 major roles for the benefit of present and future singers, to single out the specific vocal aspects in each role that he considers significant. - Author's note.
Download or read book A Basic Classical and Operatic Recordings Collection for Libraries written by Kenyon C. Rosenberg and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Download or read book Reflections written by Jon Tolansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Tolansky outlines the formation and development of the Music Research Centre (MPRC) in London and the many hurdles that had to be surmounted before its inauguration. He also provides, in the final article, a selective catalogue of the current MPRC holdings of archive-recordings, audio and video, available to visitors to the Centre's Listening Studio. The voice of the musician engaged in performing in the concert hall or opera house is rarely heard, nor do we hear from members of the audience, other than in the writings of professional critics. In Reflections, a conductor has the opportunity to respond to questions about opera in translation, and other questions relating to opera; a singer writes about the difficulties and rewards of taking the title role in three very different productions of a remarkable opera; two of London's distinguished orchestral musicians describe their journey into the profession and provide an insight into the joys and perils involved in that hazardous profess
Download or read book The Opera Lover s Companion written by Charles Osborne and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.
Download or read book The Management of Opera written by P. Agid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the current and future issues facing opera houses and opera companies. Problems in different environments need different solutions. In particular, it opposes the American method of managing cultural institutions, preferring a European one where public support and funds plays a major role.
Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera written by Paul Gruber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to recordings of operas.
Download or read book Giacomo Puccini written by Roger Flury and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury looks at each opera chronologically from Le Villi to Turandot, followed by sections on Puccini's instrumental, chamber, orchestral, and solo vocal works. Details of each complete opera are listed by recording date, followed by excerpts in the order in which they occur in the opera. Recordings of each aria are listed alphabetically by the name of the artist. For ease of use, Flury establishes as the main criteria for inclusion those recordings assigned a commercial issue number and available for purchase. This book does not limit itself to mainstream recordings but includes as well 'unofficial' recordings taken from broadcasts or illegally recorded in theaters, ensuring that the audio recording history of Puccini is free of gaps. (Video and DVD issues, whether of staged performances or excerpts in concert, are not included unless they have been issued in a sound-only format.) This volume brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Puccini's music. It provides a comprehensive overview of the recorded history of the composer's works and serves as a useful guide for the transfer of recordings from one format to another.
Download or read book American Opera Singers and Their Recordings written by Clyde T. McCants and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-08-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. It is not a book about all American opera singers, since many who had important careers on stage, made few, if any, recordings. And many of those who did make recordings, did so prior to the introduction of electrical recording in 1925 (and the resulting advances in the reproduction of the human voice). Opera enthusiasts can only imagine the sound of Farinelli's voice or read what his contemporaries have written about it, but with almost any famous or near-famous singer of recent years, enthusiasts do not have to imagine. Their voices are available through the technology of sound recording. There are 53 entries, one each for 52 singers and a composite entry for a group of Hollywood vocalists. Each entry contains biographical information and is followed by a discography of operatic recordings to be used in conjunction with the critical commentaries. The entries are in alphabetical order by the singer's last name and provide critical analyses of key recordings and of the artists' gifts and limitations.
Download or read book Reflections 97 written by Jon Tolansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections, the Yearbook of the Music Performance Research Centre, is published as an issue within the international journal Musical Performance series. It features articles written by musicians and interviews with performers. Reflections '97 includes an interview with the tenor Jon Vickers and a personal memoir of the conductor Carlos Kleiber.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-02-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Download or read book The World of Great Composers written by David Ewen and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These biographies of 37 composers include personal memoirs of friends and critical essays.
