Download or read book The Keyhole Opera written by Bruce Holland Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Holland Rogers has been writing fiction full-time since 1991. His works range from literary and experimental to SF, fantasy, and mystery, and many of the stories in The Keyhole Opera began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and anthologies.
Download or read book Opera As Hypermedium written by Tereza Havelková and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book deals with contemporary relationships between opera and the media. It is concerned with both, the use of media on stage, and opera on screen. Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, it situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media. The discussion is driven by the underlying question of what politics of representation and perception opera performs within this context. This entails approaching operas as audiovisual events (rather than works or texts) and paying attention to what they do by visual means, along with the operatic music and singing. The book concentrates on events that foreground their use of media and technology, drawing attention to opera's inherently hypermedial aspects. It works with the recognition that such events nevertheless engender powerful effects of immediacy, which are not contingent on illusionism or the seeming transparency of the medium. It analyzes how effects like presence, liveness and immersion are produced, contesting some critical claims attached to them. It also sheds light on how these effects, often perceived as visceral or material in nature, are related to the production of meaning in opera. The discussion pertains to contemporary pieces such as Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's Rosa and Writing to Vermeer, as well as productions of the canonical repertory such as Wagner's Ring Cycle by Robert Lepage at the Met and La Fura dels Baus in Valencia"--
Download or read book The Beggar s Opera written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opera History and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Complete Opera Book written by Gustave Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Standard Operaglass written by Charles Annesley (pseud. of Charles and Anna Tittmann.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Night at the Opera written by Sir Denis Forman and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.
Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas written by John W. Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the plots of 150 of the world's most popular operas, short biographies of the 72 composers represented, plus background material pertinent to each work.
Download or read book Theatre Magazine written by W. J. Thorold and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth Century Italy written by Alessandra Campana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art, addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.
Download or read book Killers written by Colin Harvey and published by Swimming Kangaroo Books. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lecturer, haunted by the ghost of his unborn brother¿a man whose out-of-body experiences show him a terrifying secret behind closed doors¿a nascent nine-year-old serial killer awaits the visit of her friends¿an innocent-seeming woodland begins to bare its secrets¿ Eleven cross-genre thrillers; eleven short stories that show the killers that lurk in the strangest of places, from prize-winning authors Gary Fry, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Meloy, Lee Thomas, World Fantasy Award-winner Bruce Holland Rogers, and others.
Download or read book Magician s Choice written by Stefon Mears and published by Thousand Faces Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Magician’s Choice “In the future of Magician's Choice, magic has displaced science, but magic takes as much rigor to operate as technology ever did. Stefon Mears weaves an entertaining space opera out of tuning forks, duels, and dragon familiars. The result is an impressive debut novel.” – Bruce Holland Rogers Author of The Keyhole Opera About Magician’s Choice Academic wizard Donal Cuthbert thought courier work would be easy money. But after someone tries to blow him up, Donal must navigate a web of lies, murders, and corporate espionage, including a beautiful liaison who might be his ally … or his greatest enemy. Helioship captain John Jacobs faces financial ruin unless this Mars-Earth run goes perfectly. But squabbling crew members, threats from deep space, and a passenger complement full of conspiracies might destroy his ship en route. Together Donal and Jacobs find themselves facing a choice … with the fate of worlds in the balance.
Download or read book Readying Cavalli s Operas for the Stage written by Ellen Rosand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. The coincidence of productions at La Scala (Milan) and Covent Garden (London) in the same month (September 2008) of two different operas signals a new stage in the recovery of these extraordinary works, confined until now to special venues committed to 'early music'-opera festivals, conservatory, and university productions. The works of the composer who is credited with having invented the genre of opera as we know it are finally enjoying a renaissance. A new edition of Cavalli's twenty-eight operas is in preparation, and the composer and his works are at the center of a great deal of new scholarship ranging from the study of sources and production issues to the cultural context of opera of this period. In the face of such burgeoning interest, this collection of essays considers the Cavalli revival from various points of view. In particular, it explores the multiple issues involved in the transformation of an operatic manuscript into a performance. Although focused on the works of Cavalli, much of this material can transfer easily to other operatic repertoires.Following an introductory part, reflecting back on four decades of Cavalli performances by some of the conductors responsible for the revival of interest in the composer, the collection is divided into four further parts: The Manuscript Scores, Giasone: Production and Interpretation, Making Librettos, and Cavalli Beyond Venice.
Download or read book Sex In The Head written by Linda R. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sex in the Head, Linda Ruth Williams uses psychoanalysis and recent feminist film theory to analyze a network of ideas which link looking with sexuality and difference, in the work of a writer who disavowed, yet covertly enjoyed, the pleasures and power of vision. The book is a departure from the long history of feminist readings of Lawrence, in that it discusses his engagement with theories of the gaze and its cultural forms - cinema, photography, painting and the visual dynamics and metaphors of literary texts - as a way of thinking through gender. It shows him arguing, on the one hand, against the evils of cinema and visual sex, while relishing, through the eyes of women, the moving spectacle of those male bodies which populate the pages of his books. It also questions what it is about the work of such an adamant cinephobe which has made it so thoroughly adaptable for film and television.
Download or read book Watching Daytime Soap Operas written by Louise Spence and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, in-depth look at the myriad pleasures of the soap opera fan.
