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  • Verdi's Shakespeare

    Men of the Theater

    by Garry Wills ...
    A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation.In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but adored Shakespeare, Verdi ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Gilded Stage

    A Social History of Opera

    Fascinating and highly readable, this is the definitive social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous, and politically influential art-form: operaFrom its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy opera has permeated through Europe, America, and beyond, becoming a global business in the digital age. This history unwraps the story of opera from the charm and chaos ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mad Love

    An Introduction to Opera

    A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first centuryThere are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Friedelind Wagner

    Richard Wagner's Rebellious Granddaughter

    Translated by Chris Walton ...
    She was not the 'black sheep' of her family, as often claimed, but a heroic rebel. Friedelind Wagner (1918-1991), Richard Wagner's independent-minded granddaughter, daughter of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, despised her mother'sclose liaison with Adolf Hitler and was the only member of the Wagner clan who fled Germany in protest. Although Winifred warned her that the Nazis would 'exterminate' her ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • A Most Ingenious Paradox

    The Art of Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Gayden Wren ...
    Written more than a century ago and initially regarded even by their creators as nothing more than light entertainment, the fourteen operas of Gilbert & Sullivan emerged over the course of the twentieth century as the world's most popular body of musical-theater works, ranking second only to Shakespeare in the history of English-language theater. Despite this resounding popularity and proven ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • D’Oyly Carte

    The Decline and Fall of an Opera Company

    by Paul Seeley ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book considers and discusses aspects of the management of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard D’Oyly Carte, and concentrates on key events that contributed to its demise in 1982.In this book, Paul Seeley follows the analytical model that proposes no single factor triggered the collapse, but rather several, both external and internal. ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Overture of Hope

    Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

    Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich. Will resonate with ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • An Unofficial Marriage

    A Novel about Pauline Viardot and Ivan Turgenev

    by Joie Davidow ...
    For Fans of Alexander Chee's best-selling novel, The Queen of the Night and opera fans everywhere.Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous events of 19th century Europe, An Unofficial Marriage dramatizes the equally tumultuous real-life love affair of two great artists—the famous Russian author, Ivan Turgenev, and the celebrated French opera singer, Pauline Viardot. From the moment he encounters ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Inner Voice

    The Making of a Singer

    The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today’s music sceneThe star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Renée Fleming brings a consummately beautiful voice, striking interpretive talents, and compelling artistry to bear on performances that have captivated audiences in opera houses and recital halls throughout the world. In The ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera

    Everything about opera is larger than life, but the bigger the art form, the bigger the potential for disaster. When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Lotfi Mansouri. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, Mansouri has directed nearly 500 productions at major opera houses around the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wagnerism

    Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

    by Alex Ross ...
    Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Opening Windows

    Confessions of a Canadian Vocal Coach

    Stuart Hamilton is a well-known Canadian musician who has been in the forefront of music in Canada for more than 60 years. Here, in this memoir, he recounts his sometimes hectic assault on the Canadian music world. Along the way, Hamilton encountered, as a vocal coach and accompanist, most of the great Canadian singers of the last half of the 20th century and some international ones, as well.For ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opera 101

    A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

    by Fred Plotkin ...
    Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Toughest Show on Earth

    The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the divas and the dramas of New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, by the remarkable man who rose from apprentice carpenter to general manager.Joseph Volpe gives us an anecdote-filled tour of more than four decades at the Met, an institution full of vast egos and complicated politics. With stunning candor, he writes about the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Night at the Opera

    An Irreverent Guide to The Plots, The Singers, The Composers, The Recordings

    “Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London)With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Verdi: libretti of 27 operas

    This file includes: Aida, Alzira, Aroldo, Attila, Don Carlo, Ernani, Falstaff, Giovanni d'Arco, I Due Foscari, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I Masnadieri, I Vespri Sciliani, Il Corsaro, Il Trovatore, La Battaglia de Legnano, La Forza di Destino, La Traviata, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Nabucco, Oberto, Otello, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, Un Ballo in Maschera, and Un Giorno di Regno. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Molto Agitato

    The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera

    If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD $8.99 CAD

  • Divas and Scholars

    Performing Italian Opera

    Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The New York Times Essential Library: Opera

    A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings

    Series series The New York Times Essential Library
    An insightful, provocative selection of the best opera performances, chosen by The New York Times's chief classical music critic in one hundred original essaysOpera intertwines the drama of the theater with the powerful emotionality of music. In this magical and illuminating guide to the best opera recordings, Anthony Tommasini delves into the ways story and music interweave to create the subtle ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Wagner: libretti of 13 operas

    This file includes (in the original German): Das Liebesverbot; Der Fliegende Holländer; Die Feen; Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg; Lohengrin Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung); Parsifal; Rienzi; Tannhäuser; Tristan und Isolde. According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung: A Companion

    "Scrupulous . . . planned and executed with quite unusual care." —OperaThere has long been a need for a modern English translation of Wagner's Ring—a version that is reliable and readable yet at the same time is a true reflection of the literary quality of the German libretto. This acclaimed translation, which follows the verse form of the original exactly, fills that niche. It reads smoothly and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs

    The Lay of the Nibelungs

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, and the mysterious kingdom of the Nibelungs with its priceless treasure-hoard guarded by dwarves and giants, of Pr�nhilt the Amazonian queen, fortune ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • My Life As a Medium

    by Betty Shine ...
    The inside story of the ‘reluctant medium’, finally available in a mass-market A-format editionBetty Shine was originally an opera singer, but studied all forms of alternative healing, becoming a vitamin and mineral therapist.Guided by spirit voices from the age of two, she became a world-famous medium. This is the story of how she became the best known medium and healer in the UK.Through her ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Cartea despre demnitate

    The articles were put together in a book, and this proved to be an attempt full of surprises and emotions. Because their being published in a chronological order made this blog a kind of diary. As I was collecting the information, I wrote, I commented and I incited the people to live the same emotions as I was living. I did not intend to exhaust the subject of anticommunist resistance, on the ... Read more

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