Download or read book Works of Gioachino Rossini written by Patricia B. Brauner and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Changing the Score written by Hilary Poriss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias: Carolina Ungher's difficulties in finding a "perfect" aria to introduce into Donizetti's Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta's performance of an aria from Pacini's Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria; Maria Malibran's interpolation of Vaccai's final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's "mini-concerts" in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, "Memoir of a Song," narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern edition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.

Download or read book Gioachino Rossini written by Denise Gallo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries. The first edition was published in 2001, and represented a survey of some 878 publications relating to the composer’s life and works. The second edition is revised and updated to include the more than 150 books and articles written in the field of Rossini studies since then. Contents range from sources published in the early decades of the nineteenth century to works currently in progress. General subject areas include Rossini's biography, historical and analytical studies of his operatic and non-operatic compositions, his personal and professional associations, and the reassessment of his role in the development of nineteenth-century music.

Download or read book Gioachino Rossini s the Barber of Seville written by Hilary Poriss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. "Bravo Figaro, Bravo Bravissimo!" -- A Whirlwind of Change -- Early Revivals : Almaviva, Bartolo, and Their Many Ways -- The World of Rosina and the Prima Donna's Playground -- A Return to Rossini -- The Untethered Splendor of Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Bidu written by Denis Daniel and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bidú Sayao was a renowned, world-famous opera singer in the midtwentieth century. In his meticulously researched biography Bidú Sayao: Passion and Determination, Denis Allan Daniel provides a fascinating insight into this Brazilian operatic star with never-before-revealed details about her life. It is stated that "she was not pleased with any biography about her and therefore decided to write her autobiography but this never materialized." This book admirably supplies the definitive biography of this diminutive diva. The first chapter explains her family background in Rio de Janeiro and how and why she began having singing lessons. Chapter two deals with the exact date and place of Bidú's birth. Painstaking research eventually discovered a birth certificate to end any conjecture. The third chapter details her travels abroad, designed to perfect her singing voice and to gain the experience required of singing in operas. Chapter four concerns her early reviews and triumphs abroad. In 1936, she signs a contract with the Metropolitan Opera. However, when returning to Brazil, she is booed at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilians, at the time, liked their stars to remain in Brazil and not become "Americanized." The fifth chapter illustrates the influence of Toscanini and how he supported her in gaining roles at the Met and how she won over the severe New York critics. Chapter six provides detailed accounts of some of these reviews. In Jussi Bjorling, the Swedish tenor, she found her perfect partner for several roles at the Met. The seventh chapter includes more reviews of this highly successful period. Returning to her private life, chapter eight provides an insight on her two marriages, both with older men, who "resembled my father, helped me with my career and protected me." The ninth chapter deals with her resentments, grief, and disillusions. In Brazil, she was often unfairly describes as being unpatriotic. The actions taken by the authorities that so upset her are recorded in detail. Chapter ten concerns her postcareer struggles. In the span of three years, in the 1960s, she lost her second husband and her mother. "I almost died with her. I think I did die a little. It was horrible. The worst time in my life. I had money but no happiness. I began to have heart problems, irregular heartbeats, palpitations and cold sweats." An interesting anecdote about the power of redemption closes the chapter. The eleventh chapter is about her love for Brazil and her pride of being Brazilian. She once said, "I am a Brazilian from the bottom of my heart and it deeply offends me to hear that I am antipatriotic." The next chapter covers her vanity, distinctions, and honors. Bidú used whatever vanity she had for the benefit of her art. She felt and acted as a true star should feel and act. The distinctions and honors that she was awarded are listed chronologically. Chapter thirteen concerns her American citizenship even though she always maintained her Brazilian citizenship. The next chapter discusses her relationship with Villa-Lobos, whose Bachianas No. 5 was definitively performed by Bidú. This became the greatest world success of both of their careers. It became the best-selling record in the United States of America for two consecutive years. The fifteenth chapter relates her successful return to Rio to appear as the star of the Beija-Flor samba school parade, at the age of ninety-two! Her death two years later is described in the next chapter with a full description of her last will and testament. It ends with quotations by Bidú about her life and opera. In conclusion, the author explains how she had to overcome enormous obstacles and the basic limitation of a fine light soprano voice and that her exceptional human and professional qualities, as a leading star of the opera world, should never be forgotten. As one critic wrote, "This was a voice such as one doesn't often hear in this world. Pure and effortless it ranged from a silver trickle to a golden torrent. Sometimes her voice soared to almost unbelievable heights and hung there--hung there like a skylark pouring its heart out in the sky." Finally, the addenda provide extensive details of reviews of Bidú's performances abroad, at the Theatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, operas sang by Bidú at the Met, at the San Francisco Opera, a bibliography, a comprehensive discography, and finally, a list of compositions by Villa-Lobos. This book, a labor of love by the author, is undoubtedly now the definitive biography of Bidú Sayao. Her life has finally been given the due attention it has always deserved.

Download or read book At the Opera written by Ann Fiery and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to thirty renowned operas shares the plots and theatrical backgrounds of each, in a volume that covers such productions as Figaro and Turandot.

Download or read book 2022 written by Günter Berghaus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the yearbook contains ten essays on Futurist art and literature in Italy, France, Russia, Poland, Portugal and the former colony of Goa. Among other things, early Futurist publishing and propaganda initiatives by means of manifestos, press releases, and newssheets are examined, as well as Athos Casarini's artistic and political work undertaken in Italy and the USA. Articles in the second part deal with the 30th anniversary of the international Academy of Zaum as well as various conferences, exhibitions and publications celebrating the centenary of Zenitism in Serbia and Croatia. Critical responses to exhibitions, conferences and publications as well as a bibliographical section with information on 139 recent book publications on Futurism conclude the yearbook.

Download or read book Music in the Present Tense written by Emanuele Senici and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and private. But after Rossini stopped composing, a sharp decline in popularity drove most of his works out of the repertory. In the past half century, they have made a spectacular return to operatic stages worldwide, but this recent fame has not been accompanied by a comparable critical reevaluation. Emanuele Senici’s new book provides a fresh look at the motives behind the Rossinian furore and its aftermath by examining the composer’s works in the historical context in which they were conceived, performed, seen, heard, and discussed. Situating the operas firmly within the social practices, cultural formations, ideological currents, and political events of early nineteenth-century Italy, Senici reveals Rossini’s dramaturgy as a radically new and specifically Italian reaction to the epoch-making changes witnessed in Europe at the time. The first book-length study of Rossini’s Italian operas to appear in English, Music in the Present Tense exposes new ways to explore nineteenth-century music and addresses crucial issues in the history of modernity, such as trauma, repetition, and the healing power of theatricality.

Download or read book Ferruccio Busoni written by Della Couling and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Busoni's radical ideas about music was, is, and could be drew fire from his more conservative contemporaries. His thoughts on musical notation, opera, and the division of the scale were well ahead of his time, but, in many cases, are common currency today. Busoni went into voluntary exile in Switzerland during World War I, unwilling to take sides, and only recently has the veil been gradually lifted from his work and theories. Ferruccio Busoni: "A Musical Ishmael" shines a revealing light on Busoni's life, concepts, and profound influence on contemporary musical aesthetics and practice."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Life of Rossini written by Henry Sutherland Edwards and published by . This book was released on 187? with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Invention of the Colonial Americas written by Byron Ellsworth Hamann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Seville’s Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s. The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain’s pre-1760 documents about the New World. To fill this new archive, older archives elsewhere in Spain—spaces in which records about American history were stored together with records about European history—were dismembered. The Archive of the Indies thus constructed a scholarly apparatus that made it easier to imagine the history of the Americas as independent from the history of Europe, and vice versa. In this meticulously researched book, Byron Ellsworth Hamann explores how building layouts, systems of storage, and the arrangement of documents were designed to foster the creation of new knowledge. He draws on a rich collection of eighteenth-century architectural plans, descriptions, models, document catalogs, and surviving buildings to present a literal, materially precise account of archives as assemblages of spaces, humans, and data—assemblages that were understood circa 1800 as capable of actively generating scholarly innovation.

Download or read book The Book of World famous Music written by James J. Fuld and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-researched compilation of music information, analyzes nearly 1,000 of the world's most familiar melodies -- composers, lyricists, copyright date, first lines of music, lyrics, and other data. Includes 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Download or read book The Birth of an Opera Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck written by Michael Rose and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating entry into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their creation.

Download or read book Il barbiere di Siviglia Moise et Pharaon written by Gioacchino Rossini and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rossini was one of the major innovators in the field of opera. Moise et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years after it had been composed for Naples; the result shows the evolution of his taste over a decade - from the neoclassical sublime to spectacular Romantic grand opera. Il barbiere di Siviglia has been a favourite with the public since it opened, and Marco Spada analyses how its stylish comedy has been misunderstood. Other essays throw light on the working conditions of the "e;opera industry"e; in Rossini's Italy, on Balzac's delightful novel concerning Moses and on the exceptional challenge of performing this type of music to a high standard.Contents: Rossini: the Serious and the Comic, Philip Gossett; The Composer at Work, John Rosselli; The Roots of a Masterpiece, Marco Spada; A Personal View of Rossini, Ubaldo Gardini; Il barbiere di Siviglia: Libretto by Cesare Sterbini; The Barber of Seville: English version by Edward J. Dent; Balzac, Stendhal and Rossini's 'Moses', Pierluigi Petrobelli; From Sublime to Romantic, Richard Bernas; Moise et Pharaon: Libretto by Victor de Jouy and Louis Balochy; Moses: English translation by John and Nell Moody