Download or read book The Original Portrayal of Mozart s Don Giovanni written by Magnus Tessing Schneider and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers.

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Download or read book Dictionary of Symbolism written by Hans Biedermann and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac.

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Download or read book The Operas of Rameau written by Graham Sadler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume, devoted solely to the composer's operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameau's operas.

Download or read book Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty First Century written by Caitlin Vincent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production.

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Download or read book Francesca Da Rimini written by Gabriele D'Annunzio and published by London: W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1902 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how Francesca da Rimini falls in love with her brother-in-law in the 13th century.

Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A work of] true power." — Andrew Sinclair. A lifer at San Quentin escapes the horrors of his incarceration through astral travel. A moving indictment of the brutal prison system that also illustrates the sustaining power of imagination.

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Download or read book One None and a Hundred thousand written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One, None and a Hundred-thousand" is a philosophical novel by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. It examines the oft-asked question of how other people perceive us. The main character Vitangelo Moscarda discovers, by way of a completely irrelevant question, that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The novel was Pirandello's last novel and it took him more than 15 years to write.

Download or read book Henry IV written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Indoeuropeanpublishing.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Pirandello [28 June 1867 - 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd. Henry IV is a man who went mad after being knocked off his horse during a masquerade. At the time he was playing the part of Henry IV, and his delusion for over twelve years after the fall was that he was King Henry IV of Germany during the eleventh century. He has been placed in a "castle" with four valets, or "private counselors," all paid for by his nephew Di Nolli. The play opens in the throne room with Berthold, a new valet who has just been hired, learning from the other three valets. Berthold is being taught everything he needs to know in order to work for Henry IV and take care of the madman...

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