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Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Anton Reiff's diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled across America by river and rail.
Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life,... Læs mere
This book uses glocalization theory and the methods of historical ethnomusicology to interpret the life and times of a notable European composer, Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924) in his sociocultural context.
This book investigates key episodes in the performance history of Vincenzo Bellini’s operas and the uses of their music in film and in sound and video art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein.
James Radomski chronicles Manuel Garcia's life from his earliest years in Seville until his death in Paris in 1832. With reference to reviews and letters, this biography also includes discussions of Garcia's compositions and teaching through musical examples and illustrations.
This volume brings together a variety of original sources, many of which have not been previously available in English, to reconstruct a portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, an eccentric genius who helped to bring opera into the modern age.
Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century, famous for the unique quality of her lyric soprano.... Læs mere
Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was by far the most successful composer of English opera in the mid nineteenth century. His reputation was... Læs mere
FRANCO CORELLI: PRINCE OF TENORS
The tumultuous life of internationally renowned opera singer, and one of the first global celebrities, Dame Nellie Melba.