Download or read book The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera written by Giorgio Bagnoli and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of styles, this comprehensive volume includes entries for more than 450 operas that have been performed over the last four centuries. Organized from A to Z for easy reference, it's a complete guide that's certain to inform and entertain any opera buff. 500 photos.

Download or read book La Scala West written by Ronald L. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Ronald L. Davis tells the story of a regional opera company that won international recognition with dazzling productions during its first season and sustained the attention of opera lovers around the world for nearly two decades. In the late 1950s in Dallas, Texas, general manager Lawrence Kelly and artistic director Nicola Rescigno envisioned gorgeous music for the eye and ear. Their intent was to breathe new life into the traditional Italian and French repertory and to spice it with offerings of American premieres of lesser-known works. Although the fledgling company's seasons were short, they were "production for production" of a quality to match those staged in the finest opera houses in the world. In 1958, Maria Callas, the company's first prima donna, gave a towering performance as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata and that same year, in her only American performances of Medea, gave an interpretation of the title role worthy of Euripides. The Dallas Opera's roster of American debuts in its initial decades includes Joan Sutherland, Jon Vickers, Teresa Berganza, Placido Domingo, and Montserrat Caballé. In addition to recruiting the best singers from around the globe, Kelly and Rescigno imported an upcoming generation of European stage designers and directors, among them such now recognized giants as Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Hall. Long before most opera management gave much attention to lighting a stage creatively, they scouted the contemporary Broadway theater to enlist the talents of such lighting designers as Jean Rosenthal and Tharon Musser. Supported by a small group of civic-minded business leaders, the Dallas Opera during its early seasons was perhaps as close as the United States has ever come to having court opera, a modern extension of the jewel-box operas performed in the palaces of Louis XIV and Catherine the Great. Rather than imitate what patrons could see at the Metropolitan in New York, Kelly and Rescigno looked to Europe, and especially to Italy and its singers and artists from the world-renowned opera house in Milan. With their visionary fervor and meticulously crafted productions, Lawrence Kelly and Nicola Rescigno launched "La Scala West," a regional opera company that set the standard for many companies in the decades to come.

Download or read book The Teatro Alla Scala written by Franco Pulcini and published by Skira. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theater's history from its origins to the present day, richly illustrated in color. La Scala is "the world's number one theater, because it is the one that gives the greatest musical enjoyment," wrote Stendhal on November 10, 1816. La Scala opened in 1778 with the opera Europa riconosciuta by Antonio Salieri, but it had already won itself the prestige it would forever keep. Most of Italy's greatest opera artists, and many of the finest singers from other nations, too, have appeared at La Scala over the past 200 years. Today, the theater is still recognized as one of the leading opera and ballet venues in the world. This lavish book-with impressive pairings of text and illustrations-presents a chronology of the major operas, ballets, composers, and performers from 1778 to today and represents an invaluable guide for both amateur opera fans and aficionados. Through six sections-the beginnings; the first half of the nineteenth century; the second half of the nineteenth century; the first half of the twentieth-century; the second half of the twentieth century; La Scala in the new millennium-this volume tells the fascinating story of the building.

Download or read book La Scala written by Giorgio Lotti and published by William Morrow &Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Scala written by Lorenzo Arruga and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opening Night at La Scala written by Teatro alla Scala and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milan’s Teatro alla Scala is among the most famous venues for the performing arts, and its commanding position in the world of opera is celebrated and documented here in spectacular photographs which record the thrill of each opening night since 1945. This series of breathtaking images capture the excitement and glamour of opening night—the key society event in Milan that takes place every December 7th in honor of St. Ambrose, the city’s patron saint. This trove of images features events on the main stage as well as behind the scenes, capturing in all their glory a glittering pantheon of international opera stars (Callas, Pavarotti, Domingo) and the music world’s greatest conductors (Karajan, Abbado, Muti). This is a must-have book for any opera lover.

Download or read book La Scala Theatrical Museum Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Scala written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Italian Stage Designs from the Museo Teatrale Alla Scala Milan Classic Reprint written by Mario Monteverdi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Italian Stage Designs From the Museo Teatrale Alla Scala, Milan A C E This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of Italian stage designs, theatrical posters and model theatres held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the autumn of 1968.9the exhibits all belong to the Museo Teatrale alla Scala in Milan, one of the richest collections of theatrical art in the world. We are much indebted to Commendatore Gian Filippo Fontana, the President, and Maestro Giampiero Tintori, the Director of the Museum, for having conceived the idea of sending this interesting exhibition to England and for having found the means to carry out their plan. I should also like to thank Dr. Adele Beghe, Deputy Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, for her help. This book, written by Professor Mario Monteverdi, is intended to serve as a general introduction to Italian scenographic art as well as a commentary on the exhibition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book La Scala 400 Years of Stage Design from the Museo Teatrale Alla Scala Milan written by International Exhibitions Foundation and published by Washington : International Exhibitions Foundation. This book was released on 1971 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The La Scala Theatre at Milan written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Star of La Scala Or Recollections of Madame Malibran in the Autumn of 1835 written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La Scala from Planning to Production written by Giorgio Lotti and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cultural History of La Scala in the Risorgimento 1814 1848 written by Raffaela Bianchi and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the La Scala opera house uses the approaches of cultural history to explore the world of Milan's historic opera house at a crucial point in Italian History. It sheds new life on La Scala's public, its rules of attendance, management, as well as its central role in the Italian national movement (the Risorgimento). Based on unpublished archival sources, the book explores a world of secret gatherings, revolutionary conspiracies hatched in opera boxes, displays of power, the architectures of surveillance, and the symbolic and gendered politics of operatic performances; in this world even the central lamp of the opera house took on political significance. In the early nineteenth century, while Giuditta Pasta and Maria Malibran performed Norma, box curtains were used for public demonstrations, keys of lateral doors were contested between the impresario and the police, and a monumental gas lamp was built and installed assembled in order to spy on the public. The central claim of the book is that a multifaceted cultural struggle was fought at La Scala. The argument is constructed through a rigorous approach to original sources and an extensive analysis of archivalmaterial. Thanks to these sources, the book makes an important, original contribution to the study of Italian history.

Download or read book La Scala Milan s Opera House written by Caroline Beamish and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Violin written by Dacia Maraini and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiographical novel takes the form of letters between Vera, a widely traveled playwright, and six-year-old Flavia, the niece of Vera's lover, violinist Edoardo.

Download or read book Teatro Alla Scala written by Carla Di Francesco and published by Mondadori Electa. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 200 years history of one of the most renowned opera houses in the world is presented in this lavish publication.Through exceptional illustrations and contributions, it presents valuable evidence of how La Scala has succeeded over the years in conserving the memory of its eighteenth-century magnificence.