Download or read book Birds Through an Opera Glass written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds Through an Opera Glass written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds Through an Opera Glass written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Operas in English written by Margaret Ross Griffel and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.
Download or read book The Birds written by Edward Dudley Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birds Through an Opera glass written by Florence Merriam Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wonders in the Sun written by Thomas D'Urfey and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The birds written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds A Chamber Opera After the Comedy by Aristophanes written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chamber opera by Michael LaCroix is an adaptation of Aristophanes' ancient Greek comedy, The Birds. The play is the longest among the existing works by Aristophanes and was first presented and took second prize at the City Dionysia festival at Athens in the year 414 B.C. Based on an English translation by David Barrett (1765 lines were adapted from The Birds and Other Plays, Penguin Putnam Inc., 2003, (c) David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein, 1978, 153-214. This musical adaptation was made with permission from the Society of Authors in London, England, and the text is reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.), the composer modified the story to create his own libretto, and from the text comes the structure of the composition. Scored for three singers (soprano, tenor, bass-baritone), actor, and chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, percussion), the work walks a fine line between opera and theater. Staying true to the original play, the role of the Nightingale is given to the flutist. In this same spirit, the members of the ensemble appear onstage, and, in addition to traditional playing, with explicit and implicit indications in the score, slip back and forth between character roles, improvise, and produce occasional well-placed special effects, all in a rather fluid fashion, using a combination of traditional and non-traditional instruments as well as found objects and toys. Act I of the opera, this dissertation, was performed by the University of Chicago's Contemporary Chamber Players on 22 May, 2011, at Ganz Hall, featuring singers Tony Arnold and Peter Tantsits, actor Ofer Ravid, and ensemble-in-residence, eighth blackbird, with saxophonist Jeremy Ruthrauff.
Download or read book The Mapmaker s Opera written by Bea Gonzalez and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN A TOWN IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, home to Don Quijote and his windmills, the Clemente family lived for centuries, their fortunes tied to those of a plant... So begins the grand tale that is The Mapmaker's Opera. Born in Seville, Spain to a dishonored governess, a young Diego Clemente finds solace in the world of books, in particular John James Audubon's Birds of America. Mesmerized by the wondrous images in Audobon's magnificent volume, he longs to travel to the New World to find his destiny and see these amazing creatures for himself. When renowned American naturalist Edward Nelson enlists him by chance to create a guide to Yucatan's birds, Diego's dream comes true. Arriving on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, Diego finds himself in a world that is as precarious as it is beautiful, where opulent henequen plantations are built on the backs of slave labor and the social order is on the brink of imploding. And there, Diego falls for the young Sofia, a woman who longs to be as free as the birds she also loves. He tries with all his might to win her and, with Nelson's help, to save the last pair of passenger pigeons in existence. A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed passions, a pair of mysterious birds, and a young man's quest to honor both his passions, The Mapmaker's Opera transports its audience with stunning vistas, magical storytelling, and a universal story of love.
Download or read book A Thousand and One Nights of Opera written by Frederick Herman Martens and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelléas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from euphoric visions of singers as creators to uncanny images of musicians as lifeless objects that have been resuscitated by scripts. In doing so, she touches upon several critical issues: the Wagner problem; coloratura, virtuosity, and their critics; the implications of disembodied voice in opera and film; mechanical music; the mortality of musical sound; and opera's predilection for scenes positing mysterious unheard music. An intersection between transcendence and intense physical grounding, she asserts, is a quintessential element of the genre, one source of the rapture that operas and their singers can engender in listeners. In Search of Opera mediates between an experience of opera that can be passionate and intuitive, and an intellectual engagement with opera as a complicated aesthetic phenomenon. Marrying philosophical speculation to historical detail, Abbate contemplates a central dilemma: the ineffability of music and the diverse means by which a fugitive art is best expressed in words. All serious devotees of opera will want to read this imaginative book by s music-critical virtuoso.
Download or read book The Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Tunisia written by Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanished Birds written by Simon Jimenez and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold, lyrical and imaginative, this space opera is a must for fans of Becky Chambers and Alastair Reynolds Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship contracted to the Umbrai corporation, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past, and hunted by his present. For he is one of the few born with the gift of the Jaunt. The ability to travel instantly anywhere in the universe. An ability that threatens the vicelike control of the settled worlds by corporations such as Umbrai. Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist responsible for the design of bird-like Stations that Umbrai uses to control vast tracts of space, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years. Together, they set out to protect the boy, a journey that will cross the decades and light years all the way out to the fringes of settled space where the laws of civilisation do not apply, and they will have only each other to rely on.
