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Author: Ellen H. Bleiler
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 0486157407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original Italian texts with English translations of 145 arias from 50 operas, including Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and more. Introduction.
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780815313724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Hassan W. Ebron
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9780942208177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the sixteenth century, a group of Renaissance Italians sat down together to revive the lost art of Greek and Roman drama, as part of the great rebirth of learning that had already revolutionized the arts of painting, poetry, architecture. To name this "new" art, they used the word for any general work of art, opus, the plural in Latin being "opera." Opera today is experiencing another revival. Works by American composers such as Philip Glass and John Adams now stand alongside the great Italian, Russian, German, French operas. The repertoire is not closed, and the industry-singers, orchestras, stage designers, opera houses, publishers, and opera-goers-flourishes around the world. This little book is offered as a compendium of Italian terms describing the techniques and refinements that propelled this art into an enduring position among the arts. Italian terms are explained in English. Also, Italian poetry in English: Dante and His Circle (www.createspace.com/4024060) Vita Nuova (Dante on Beatrice) Ovid, The Changes (web only: www.bandannabooks.com/ovid). And Shakespeare plays with Italian settings: Two Gentlemen of Verona (www.createspace.com/3724080) The Merchant of Venice (www.createspace.com/3727221) The Taming of the Shrew (www.createspace.com/3718477) Romeo and Juliet (www.createspace.com/3892597)
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486246078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.
Author: Tim Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0190247967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohème. Shedding light on the creative collusions and collisions involved in bringing opera to the stage, the various, and varying, demands of the text and music, and the nature of its musical drama, Carter also shows how Italian opera has developed over the course of music history. Complete with synopses, cast lists, and suggested further reading for each work discussed, Understanding Italian Opera is a must-read for anyone with an interest in and love for this glorious art.
Author: John Graziano
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1135552304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume represents Italian opera in English though the works have British origins and strong French influences. This volume discusses various operatic interpretations of the Cinderella story, from its French operatic debut in 1810 to the most famous operas from Perrault and Rossini.
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780393008524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780521466431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Author: Sara Gamarro
Publisher: Rugginenti Editore
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 8876652612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a complete guide to the magic spells that the lyric diction of Italian Opera has cast on its audience for the last four hundred years, revealed and explained in their secrets by the author through an exact method of study whose effectiveness has been proven, over more than a decade of coaching activity, on her many students - Opera stars included - all over the world.
