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En Travesti: Women, Gender Subversion, Opera

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press: April 1995

Seller ID: 477526

ISBN: 0231102690

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the release of Wayne Koestenbaum's book, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, gender studies has begun to take an active interest in music. Opera, long viewed as strictly an establishment tradition, has in particular been given a second look by gender theorists. Can opera - an antiquated, Eurocentric bastion of high culture - in fact be subverting patriarchal authority in some fundamental way?
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The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs: 343 Portraits from the 1850's to the 1940's

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dover Pubns: June 1978

Seller ID: 482987

ISBN: 0486235750

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

343 portraits from 1850s to 1940s: Enrico Caruso, Antonio Tamburini, Kirsten Flagstad, Feodor Chaliapin, Mary Garden, Maria Jeritza, Lauritz Melchior, Lily Pons, Jan Peerce, Ezio Pinza, Geraldine Farrar, Emma Calve, Luisa Tetrazzini, Lotte Lehmann and many more. Captions.
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Verdi With a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera

By: Berger, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: September 2000

Seller ID: 476548

ISBN: 037570518X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.

If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to pronounce Aida, or what the plot of Rigoletto is all about, this is the place to look. From the composer's intense hatred of priests to synopses of the operas and a d...
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Callas:Portrait of a Prima Donna

By: Callas, Maria

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409238

ISBN: 98348328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maria Callas: The Art Behing the Legacy

By: Callas, Maria

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409244

ISBN: 918348328

Binding: Hardcover

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Callas As They Saw Her

By: Callas, Maria/Lowe

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409243

ISBN: 0804456364

Binding: Hardcover

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My Wife Maria Callas

By: Callas, Maria/Meneghini, Giova

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 409240

ISBN: 78210924

Binding: Unknown

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Maria Callas: A Tribute

By: Callas, Maria/Remy

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409241

ISBN: 0312514484

Binding: Hardcover

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Callas Legacy

By: Callas/Ardoin, John

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409239

ISBN: 0684152975

Binding: Hardcover

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Callas

By: Callas/Fizsgereld, Gereld

Price: $5.00

Publisher: January 2011

Seller ID: 125260

ISBN: 0030114861

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Callas: Prima Donna Assoluta

By: Callas/Galatopoulos, Stelios

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 409242

ISBN: 8786

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Opera, or the Undoing of Women

By: Clement, Catherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press: June 1999

Seller ID: 417032

ISBN: 0816635269

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This was the first work to have applied a systematised feminist theory to opera. It concentrates on the stories & text of opera, that perhaps have more relevence today in a growing literature than it had when it was the sacrilegious pioneering work.
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Opera in America: A Cultural History

By: Dizikes, John

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: September 1995

Seller ID: 474488

ISBN: 0300061013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"I hear the chorus, it is a grand opera, Ah this indeed is music--this suits me."--Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

America has had a love affair with opera in all its forms since it was first performed here in colonial times. This book--the first comprehensive cultural and social history of musical theater in the United States--includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences, and theaters throughout the country from 1735 to the present day.

John Dizikes tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural environment of A...
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The Inner Voice

By: Fleming, Renee

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 220464

ISBN: 0143035940

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today's music scene

The star of the Metropolitan Opera's recent revival of Dvorak's Rusalka, soprano Ren e 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 Inner Voice--a book that is the story of her own artistic development and the "autobiography" of her voice--this great performer presents a unique and privileged look at the making of...
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Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

By: Fleming, Renee

Price: $5.00

Publisher: October 2015

Seller ID: 458833

ISBN: 0670033510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Blessed with one of the most beautiful voices of her generation, soprano Ren?e Fleming is one of the most celebrated talents on today's music scene. In "The Inner Voice," this great singer shares what she has learned from her experience as an inspiration for those contemplating a career in the arts. From struggling to get a career under way to dealing with her own personal doubts, Fleming is wonderfully candid and articulate about her art?especially the little discussed heart-throat-mind connection?and childhood influences, formal education, mentors, preparation, and mental and physical discip...
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The Queen's Throat : Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire

By: Koestenbaum, Wayne

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Random House Inc: January 1994

Seller ID: 469704

ISBN: 0140238883

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Don Giovanni (Dover Opera Libretto Series) (Italian and English Edition)

By: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: October 1985

Seller ID: 455411

ISBN: 0486249441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Don Giovanni has been called the greatest opera ever composed, an almost perfect work. Along with Aida, La Boh me, and Carmen, Mozart's masterpiece is one of the most often performed operas. The work is so admired that when the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini was asked which of his own operas he liked best, Rossini unhesitatingly replied, "Don Giovanni."
This Dover edition contains the standard Italian libretto of Don Giovanni, side by side with a complete new English translation. Convenient and portable, it also includes an informative Introduction...
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Mad Love: An Introduction to Opera

By: Schweitzer, Viven

Price: $10.00

Seller ID: 388971

ISBN: 046509693X

Binding: Hardcover

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A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century
There 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 and La Boheme, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years. Musician and critic Vivien Schweitzer acquaints reader...
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