Opera Viva
Author: Ezra Schabas
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1550023462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canadas cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: Ezra Schabas
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-09
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1550023462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the Canadian Opera Company and Canadas cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: Lotfi Mansouri
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-10-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1459705157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Mansouri. From the hilarious to the bizarre, this is a reader-friendly look at what is often thought of as an overly serious, even mysterious form of art.
Author: Patrick Lo
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-01-26
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1801176523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains two Open Access Chapters This collection explores the current trends and practices in the field of music performance librarianship. A helpful resource to librarians, and archivists in a variety of situations in the world of performing arts.
Author: Franklin Mesa
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-05-07
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1476605378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.
Author: George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 762
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jennifer L. Oates
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1317124065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hamish MacCunn’s career unfolded amidst the restructuring of British musical culture and the rewriting of the Western European political landscape. Having risen to fame in the late 1880s with a string of Scottish works, MacCunn further highlighted his Caledonian background by cultivating a Scottish artistic persona that defined him throughout his life. His attempts to broaden his appeal ultimately failed. This, along with his difficult personality and a series of poor professional choices, led to the slow demise of what began as a promising career. As the first comprehensive study of MacCunn’s life, the book illustrates how social and cultural situations as well as his personal relationships influenced his career. While his fierce loyalty to his friends endeared him to influential people who helped him throughout his career, his refusal of his Royal College of Music degree and his failure to complete early commissions assured him a difficult path. Drawing upon primary resources, Oates traces the development of MacCunn’s music chronologically, juxtaposing his Scottish and more cosmopolitan compositions within a discussion of his life and other professional activities. This picture of MacCunn and his music reveals on the one hand a talented composer who played a role in establishing national identity in British music and, on the other, a man who unwittingly sabotaged his own career.
Author: Jonathan Holmes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-08-10
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1408198711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina narrowly missed New Orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting levees and emptied neighbouring lake Pontchartrain into the city. Marooned by floodwater that swamped over 80% of their homes, the inhabitants had to wait a week without food or clean water before their own government came to their aid. Katrina uses survivor testimonies and the rich cultural tradition of New Orleans to tell the story of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane. Shedding light on some of the more extraordinary and under-reported aspects of the tragedy, the play portrays an odyssey through a drowned space and a series of encounters with individuals displaced and abandoned within their own city. The plot follows from the death of Virgil, a decadent old New Orleanian, who has been killed by Hurricane Katrina. Trapped by the rising floodwater his partner Beatrice determines to take his body to safety at City Hall. During her journey she encounters a number of other survivors and hears their tales. A Jericho House production, Katrina premiered at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, on 1 September 2009.
Author: Peter Nagy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 1069
ISBN-13: 1136402896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new paperback edition of the The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Europe covers theatre since World War II in forty-seven European nations, including the nations which re-emerged following the break-up of the former USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Each national article is divided into twelve sections - History, Structure of the National Theatre Community, Artistic profile, Music Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Puppet Theatre, Design, Theatre, Space and Architecture, Training, Criticism, Scholarship and Publishing and Further Reading - allowing the reader to use the book as a source for both area and subject studies. A new preface and further reading sections by the Series Editor brings the Encyclopedia bang up-to-date making it invaluable to anyone interested in European theatre, as well as students and scholars of performance studies, history, anthropology and cultural studies.