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In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage opera's politics are at best delusory, at worst a political ploy....

John Dizikes tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural enviroment of America. The book includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences and theatres throughout...

The book titled The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs and Cassettes by the author Edward Greenfield. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

The book titled Met Opera Bk of Mozart Operas by the author Metropolitan Opera. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Whilst no one would dispute Richard Wagner's ranking amongst the most significant composers in the history of Western music, his works have been more fiercely attacked than any other composer's....

She was among 'the most brilliant dramatic stars of our time', according to Franz Liszt, and billed as 'the most talked of opera singer in Europe'. Dickens - reduced to...

The book titled Wagner in Thought and Practice by the author Geoffrey Skelton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"It is [a] fully illuminated story that Richard Taruskin, in the path-breaking essays collected here, unfolds around Modest Musorgsky, Russia's greatest national composer.... [Taruskin's] tour de force comes with a...

The English tenor, Peter Pears, made a unique contribution to British musical life, not only through his own singing, but as the inspiration and muse of his life-long companion Benjamin...

This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and...

'It is impossible to imagine a world in which Wagner never happened. - He was at the same time a horror, a phenomenon and a genius. But he was Wagner...

Now, after more than ten years, this famous work of the stories of more than 300 of the world's great operas has been entirely revised, updated, expanded, and reset in...

A superb new 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...

If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. As Gary Schmidgall shows in this illuminating...

A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW 'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary...

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest opera composers of their time, represent diametrically opposed approaches to life and music, but is it impossible to love them both? These...

The book titled Rossini by the author Richard Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Don Giovanni by the author Lorenzo Da Ponte. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the very beginnings of Intimate Opera Group in 1957 when the camaraderie of Putting on Opera kept a mob of dedicated amateurs operating on no money and gallons of...

This illustrated history of operetta documents a form of musical theatre which entertained audiences around the world for over a century. Coming at a time of renewed enthusiasm for operetta,...

Fidelio is Beethoven's only complete opera and one of the most admired, and problematic, in the repertoire. This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within the work as...

The inspirational autobiography from Britain's home-grown Pavarotti - megastar Russell Watson Russell 'The Voice' Watson is a star with a real story to tell. While most stars of today find...

The book titled Maria Meneghini Callas by the author Michael Scott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Few people these days would question Mozart's rating as the most popular of all classical composers. Yet there exists no substantial, up-to-date English-language study of the man and his works....

The book titled The Complete Operas of Richard Wagner by the author Charles Osborne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman. Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th century. Callas 100 recounts the diva's unparalleled...

A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW 'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary...

In all theatre, the spotlight follows the leads, making it easy for the audience to overlook the role of the singers, dancers and actors who bring a production to life....

The book titled The Real Wagner by the author Dr. Rudolph Sabor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Today more and more people are discovering how satisfying and entertaining opera can be. This book is designed specifically for such newcomers to the delights of opera, who would find...

Wotan's Daughter recounts the turbulent life and career of Marjorie Lawrence, one of Australia's most renowned opera stars. From humble beginnings in rural Victoria, Lawrence rose to become one of...

In 1988 Jeremy Isaacs took over the job of running the Royal Opera House, and with it he inherited a plan. The Victorian building was to be closed for a...

Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young and old with her incredible voice,...

Covers Australia's operatic fare during the 60 years from the death of impressario Lyster to the beginning of World War II.

The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman. Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th century. Callas 100 recounts the diva's unparalleled...

Part of a series providing comprehensive coverage of the life and works of great composers, this revised edition focuses on Giuseppe Verdi and is suitable for musicians, students and the...

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that...

A new, concise edition of the much-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide. This concise edition of the critically-acclaimed New Penguin Opera Guide focusses on the composers and works most frequently performed...

Beautifully illustrated and richly detailed, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera examines the history and development of opera, from its roots in the theatrical choral dances of Ancient Greece, through the...

Now available in an affordable paperback format, "The Story of Opera" celebrates the 400-year history of opera. With separate chapters devoted to the great national schools of opera - Italian,...

The Glyndebourne Opera Festival is one of the highlights of the musical year. Since its single-handed creation in the 1930s by John Christie, a determined music lover with the means...

The English National Opera Guides were originally conceived in partnership with the English National Opera and edited by Nicholas John, the ENO's dramaturg, who died tragically in an accident in...

Best known for his fundamental work on acting, Stanislavski was deeply drawn to the challenges of opera. His brilliant chapters here on Russian classics - Boris Gudonov and The Queen...

When The Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught is David W. Barber's third foray into the dangerous realm of musical humour.

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...

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...