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Andrea Bocelli: The Music of Silence
Andrea Bocelli is currently the world's most successful male singer. He has sold an astonishing 60 million albums worldwide and has sung for the Pope and Bill Clinton. His concerts...
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
This greatly enlarged edition includes many rewritten and updated entries as well as numerous new articles on composers and performers, details of casts at first performances, and much additional information...
Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will
The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagner's music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. They have...
Kiri: Her Unsung Story
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The biography of Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the most well-known and well-loved personalities in music, revealing for the first time the dramatic story of her origins, career and marital...
ABC of Opera: Academy of Barmy Composers, The - Baroque
Discover the thrilling story of opera with Jack, Megan and the time-travelling Trunk. Go with them to Florence, Italy and back to 1597, the beginning of the Baroque era, to...
Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide
Wagner's operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner's musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer's underlying ideas...
Who's Who in Opera
This guide to over 2500 operatic characters is intended both as a source of reference and an enjoyable read. Covering a wide range of works across the whole compass of...
Opera Houses of the World
This study tells the story of the great opera houses of the world, from the princes who commissioned them and the architects who designed them, to the singers who sang...
Finding My Voice: Playing the fool, and other triumphs!
For the last 25 years Jonathan Veira has been a star of the world of opera, handling a wide range of character parts as a comic baritone. A virtuoso musician...
Encore: My journey back to centre stage
Told he would never sing again, now he's back for his Encore . 'A unique story - told from the heart, with humour and warmth'. Aled Jones 'An emotional read...
A Prima Donna's Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland
The long awaited autobiography of ' La Stupenda ' the worlds most celebrated living soprano. From not particularly spectatcular musical beginnings, Joan Sutherland has built a world-conquering singing career. Born...
My Friend Pavarotti
A personal portrait of Luciano Pavarotti by a childhood friend, drawing on conversations with the singer's wife, parents, family, friends, musical colleagues and the man himself. This book includes a...
The Opera Companion
A guide to 47 operas from the 18th and 19th centuries, this text provides a synopsis for each opera with an introduction singling out the particular strengths and flaws of...
Wagner
A reader-friendly look at the turbulent life and work of probably the greatest 19th century German opera composer, including the impact of politics, philosophy, and aesthetics on Wagner's work. Covers...
Giacomo Puccini
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The Ring of the Nibelung
A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no...
La Stupenda: A Biography of Joan Sutherland
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Sing Me Forgotten
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Hans Hotter
Hans Hotter (1909-2003) was one of opera's most influential and profoundly moving artists of the twentieth century. His imposing frame and austere, high-browed profile made him an ideal figure of...
Choir Man
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Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth
Author: Barry MillingtonFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 1050g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2012Richard Wagner is one of the most influential - and controversial - composers in...
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Author: Alex Ross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard...
Finding My Voice
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Intimate Letters
Over the last decade of his life the Czech composer Leo Janacek wrote regularly to his 'hoped-for wife' Kamila Stvsslova. A comprehensive selection of these letters has been translated and...