The Stages of Menotti
Author: John Ardoin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Ardoin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Ardoin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Donald L. Hixon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2000-02-28
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0313095949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gian Carlo Menotti is a composer known chiefly for his popular operas, including Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, and The Consul. He also wrote a considerable amount of choral, instrumental and chamber music. This addition to the Greenwood Press series Bio-Bibliographies in Music serves as a reference guide to Menotti's career. A brief biographical sketch precedes a chronologically arranged bibliography of general writings by and about Menotti followed by a detailed list of works, alphabetically arranged. A bibliography of writings about specific compositions, complete with selected contemporary critical reviews, includes data on premiers and other significant performances and discographies of recordings. Opera music scholars, along with Menotti fans, will appreciate this detailed guide to available research materials. Intended as a scholarly resource, this volume also includes two appendices, a chronological list of works and a genre list of works. An author index and a separate performer index are provided.
Author: Monica A. Hershberger
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1648250610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first feminist analysis of some of the most performed works in the American-opera canon, emphasizing the voices and perspectives of the sopranos who brought these operas to life. In the 1950s, composers and librettists in the United States were busy seeking to create an opera repertory that would be deeply responsive to American culture and American concerns. They did not break free, however, of the age-old paradigm so typically expressed in European opera: that is, of women as either saintly and pure or sexually corrupt, with no middle ground. As a result, in American opera of the 1950s, women risked becoming once again opera's inevitable victims. Yet the sopranos who were tasked with portraying these paragons of virtue and their opposites did not always take them as their composers and librettists made them. Sometimes they rewrote, through their performances, the roles they had been assigned. Sometimes they used their lived experiences to invest greater authenticity in the roles. With chapters on The Tender Land, Susannah, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and Lizzie Borden, this book analyzes some of the most performed yet understudied works in the American-opera canon. It acknowledges Catherine Clément's famous description of opera as "the undoing of women," while at the same time illuminating how singers like Beverly Sills and Phyllis Curtin worked to resist such undoing, years before the official resurgence of the American feminist movement. In short, they ended up helping to dismantle powerful gendered stereotypes that had often reigned unquestioned in opera houses until then.
Author: Elise Kuhl Kirk
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780252026232
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A treasure trove of information, "American Opera" sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas. 86 photos.
Author: Jonathan D. Green
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0810847205
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys large choral-orchestral works written between 1900 and 1972 that contain some English text. Green examines eighty-nine works by forty-nine composers, from Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to Bernstein's Mass.
Author: John Gruen
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the twentieth-century Italian composer, Gian-Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his operas, The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street.
Author: Claude Summers
Publisher: Cleis Press Start
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1573448753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary, and George Frideric Handel, who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian opera's preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Berg’s Lulu, opera’s first openly lesbian character. And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Diaghilev, Bessie Smith, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Alvin Ailey, Rufus Wainwright, and Ani DiFranco.
Author: Dave DiMartino
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 2298
ISBN-13: 131746429X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an examination of the crucial formative period of Chinese attitudes toward nuclear weapons, the immediate post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki period and the Korean War. It also provides an account of US actions and attitudes during this period and China's response.
Author: Wayne Clifford Wentzel
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780815334965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An annotated reference guide to Barber's life, works and achievements, it will prove valuable for anyone seeking information on him.