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The World Got Away: A Memoir

The World Got Away: A Memoir

Author: Mikel Rouse ,  Kyle Gann
ISBN: 9780252087912
Format: Paperback
$54.99

One of the most innovative composers of his generation, Mikel Rouse is known for a trilogy of operas that includes...  Read More >>

The World Got Away: A Memoir

The World Got Away: A Memoir

Author: Mikel Rouse ,  Kyle Gann
ISBN: 9780252045813
Format: Hardback
$239.00

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The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna

The Operetta Empire: Music Theater in Early Twentieth-Century...

Author: Micaela Baranello
ISBN: 9780520401228
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 ""When the world comes to an end,"" Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented...  Read More >>

Twenty-Four Songs and Arias in Spanish: From XV to XXI Centuries. For Medium-Low Voices

Twenty-Four Songs and Arias in Spanish: From XV to XXI...

Author: Patricia Caicedo
ISBN: 9780981720401
Format: Paperback
$100.32

The book 24 Songs and Arias in Spanish presents a thoughtfully curated and diverse collection of songs and arias...  Read More >>

A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and...

Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
ISBN: 9798211367784
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Study by the American music critic and musicologist. Published in 1909.  Read More >>

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German...

Author: Austin Glatthorn (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781009066068
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Designed for music scholars, historians, and those interested in music of the 'Classical era', Glatthorn's book...  Read More >>

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond...

Author: Christopher Morris
ISBN: 9780226831299
Format: Paperback
$61.95

"An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media...  Read More >>

Do I Bark Like a Dog?: How an Italian Family History Shaped a Boy in London

Do I Bark Like a Dog?: How an Italian Family History...

Author: Michael Volpe
ISBN: 9781804470862
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Exploring his colourful, rich and often dramatic life in London and summers spent in southern Italy among his large...  Read More >>

Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments: Trash Music

Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for...

Author: Rachel N. Becker
ISBN: 9781032491769
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Wagner's Theatre: In Search of a Legacy

Wagner's Theatre: In Search of a Legacy

Author: Patrick Carnegy
ISBN: 9780718897437
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Wagner's Theatre presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches

Author: Paul Thom
ISBN: 9781666914252
Format: Paperback
$68.99

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The Nurse in History and Opera: From Servant to Sister

The Nurse in History and Opera: From Servant to Sister...

Author: Judith Barger
ISBN: 9781666957341
Format: Hardback
$206.00

This book explores the role of the ubiquitous nurse character found in over one hundred operas and provides insight...  Read More >>

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond

Screening the Operatic Stage: Television and Beyond...

Author: Christopher Morris
ISBN: 9780226831275
Format: Hardback
$186.95

"An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media...  Read More >>

Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles of a Brighter Future

Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture: Apostles...

Author: Anja Bunzel ,  Christopher Campo-Bowen
ISBN: 9781032206592
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume focuses on the circumstances of women’s music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central...  Read More >>

Callas 100

Callas 100

Author: Giampaolo Guida
ISBN: 9791280717221
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Maria Callas told through the words of colleagues, beloved, close collaborators and unpublished images. Text in...  Read More >>

Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality, Desire

Martin Crimp’s Power Plays: Intertextuality, Sexuality,...

Author: Vicky Angelaki
ISBN: 9781032344331
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp’s recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal...  Read More >>

Staging Voice

Staging Voice

Author: Michal Grover-Friedlander
ISBN: 9781032034287
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Music Glocalization and the Composer: The Case of Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924)

Music Glocalization and the Composer: The Case of Franz...

Author: Mikolaj Rykowski
ISBN: 9781666936834
Format: Hardback
$223.00

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Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi

Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille...

Author: Blair Hoxby
ISBN: 9781487503512
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre...  Read More >>

The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera

The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance...

Author: Dr Sarah Van der Laan (Indiana University)
ISBN: 9780198778295
Format: Hardback
$212.00

The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics...  Read More >>

Said on Opera

Said on Opera

Author: Edward Said (c/o The Wylie Agency) ,  Wouter Capitain (Lecturer in Musicology)
ISBN: 9780231212014
Format: Paperback
$32.95

This book presents Edward W. Said’s insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as...  Read More >>

Irene Dalis Diva, Impresaria, Legend

Irene Dalis Diva, Impresaria, Legend

Author: Linda Riebel ,  Shawna Lucey
ISBN: 9780983305101
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Updated edition of the authorized biography of international opera star, based on hundreds of hours of interviews...  Read More >>

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