Download or read book The Vienna Opera written by Wolfgang Greisenegger and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna was the glory of the music world for 350 years, as this affectionate portrayal of that city's opera attests. Neither a documentary history nor a strict chronology, it offers chapters on Vienna opera prior to 1869, the architecture of the Vienna Opera House, the directors and their ensembles, set design and costumes, the opera ballet, and the orchestra. A list of major premieres and a bibliography are included.
Download or read book The Vienna Opera written by Marcel Prawy and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1970 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Opera Buffa in Mozart s Vienna written by Mary Kathleen Hunter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-27 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.
Download or read book The Vienna Opera written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart s Vienna written by Mary Hunter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater. Hunter attributes opera buffa's success to its ability to provide "sheer" pleasure and hence explores how the genre functioned as entertainment. She argues that opera buffa, like mainstream film today, projects a social world both recognizable and distinct from reality. It raises important issues while containing them in the "merely entertaining" frame of the occasion, as well as presenting them as a series of easily identifiable dramatic and musical conventions. Exploring nearly eighty comic operas, Hunter shows how the arias and ensembles convey a multifaceted picture of the repertory's social values and habits. In a concluding chapter, she discusses Cos" fan tutte as a work profoundly concerned with the conventions of its repertory and with the larger idea of convention itself and reveals the ways Mozart and da Ponte pointedly converse with their immediate contemporaries.
Download or read book Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera written by John A. Rice and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book On Stage written by Peter Kozak and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'On Stage' shows everything that must be done before the curtain can be lifted and the prepared decorations of an opera house can be seen on stage so that the performance can start. The words 'stage machinery' describe only very inadequately the interaction of hundreds of people in highly skilled occupations: the flies, sinking, props... 'On Stage' offers not only a glimpse behind the stage but also to mysterious places on, under and next to the stage, a preparatory drama that is as dramatic as the play itself. After 'Metamorphoses', 'Creation', 'Celebration', 'Close-up', 'Passion', 'Emotion and Glamour', 'On Stage' is the 8th volume in an encyclopaedic series about the Vienna Opera House, conceived to grow by one volume per year until 2019, when the opera house celebrates its 125th anniversary.
Download or read book The Vienna State Opera written by Rudolf Klein and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven written by Martin Nedbal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.
Download or read book The Vienna Opera House written by Heinrich Kralik and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Operetta Empire written by Micaela Baranello and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth‐century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life—one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.
Download or read book The Vienna Opera Ball written by Ulrike Messer-Krol and published by Vienna, Austria : C. Brandstätter. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Cage Aux Folles written by Jerry Herman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vienna Opera written by Heinrich Kralik and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vienna Nocturne written by Vivien Shotwell and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shotwell lyrically navigates her protagonist through love affairs, heartache and dazzling high-stakes performances. This is an exquisite read for history fans, classical-music lovers and romance aficionados alike." --Chatelaine Vienna Nocturne recounts the turbulent life and brilliantly successful career of young British opera singer Anna Storace, a child prodigy who is taken by her parents to Italy at age thirteen to advance her career. In love with life and wildly ambitious, Anna wants everything--to be famous, to be loved--and this leads her to make some fatal choices. We watch her turn from a carefree young girl to a passionate young woman, and it is during this transformation that her affair with Mozart blossoms. The story of their love, no less powerful for being forbidden, is reminiscent of the passionate thwarted romances described in Loving Frank and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Written in melodious prose by a young author studying opera at Yale, Vienna Nocturne is dramatic story of a woman's battle to find love and fame in an 18th-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.
Download or read book About Vienna written by Inga Tourmann and published by Jourist Verlags GmbH. This book was released on with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna, the Imperial City, is like one large museum. The Viennese Waltz, the Viennese strudel, the Viennese opera, the Viennese coffee... These are the sounds and smells of the Austrian capital, one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Have an exciting trip through Vienna together with 'About Vienna. Talking City Guide'. Read the thrilling tales about the loveliest sights and get to know Vienna as it is today. The city guide is remarkable in two main respects: • This book can not only be read but also heard. All the texts are read out by a professional speaker. • You can see all the city sights on the offline maps included, or you can call up the online maps from the chapter by clicking on a link. The maps and photos in this city guide will help you to cope while in Vienna. You must get to know this city yourself and enjoy its beauty and secrets. The guide will tell you about the 18 most interesting sights: • Vienna Rathaus • Austrian Parliament • Hofburg • A Hofburg Museum: the Schatzkammer • A Hofburg Museum: Kaiserappartments • Sisi Museum • Stephansdom • Hundertwasser Haus • Albertina • Karlskirche • Kunsthistorisches Museum • Vienna State Opera • Stadtpark • MuseumsQuartier • Schloss Schönbrunn • Belvedere • Vienna Prater • Zentralfriedhof
Download or read book The Vienna Opera House written by Heinrich Kralik (Ritter von Meyrswalden) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
