Opera Books

"Le Désastre De Lisbonne" is a historical drama in three acts, written in prose and incorporating dance and pantomime, by Jean Nicolas Bouilly with music by Alexandre Piccinni. Inspired by the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755, the play...

Le Triomphe De David is a melodrama in three acts by Leblanc and Louis Charles Caigniez. First performed in the early 19th century, this French drama recounts the story of David, likely drawing from the biblical narrative, and set against a backdrop of...

Tesla's Opera: The Real, Stranger-Than-Fiction Nikola Tesla brings the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla to life through the opera he inspired, Violet Fire. For its creators, only opera could encompass the extremes and surreal qualities of Tesla's life and...

Mam'zelle Nitouche is a delightful French comic operetta in three acts and four scenes, penned by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud, with music by Hervé (Florimond Ronger). First performed in 1883, this enduring piece of musical theatre tells a...

Notices sur Luigi et Federico Ricci offers a biographical and critical examination of the lives and works of the Ricci brothers, two prominent Italian opera composers of the 19th century. Franz de Villars delves into their personal histories and provides...

Le drame lyrique en France depuis Gluck jusqu'à nos jours explores the evolution of lyric drama in France from the era of Gluck to the late 19th century. Jacques Hermann provides a detailed analysis of the key composers, works, and trends that...

Le balcon de l'opéra by Joseph Louis d'Ortigue, published in 1833, offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century French opera and musical criticism. D'Ortigue, a prominent music critic of his time, provides insightful commentary and...

"Chiquito, le joueur de Pelote; scènes de la vie basque en 4 actes d'après Pierre Loti" is a dramatic work by Jean Nouguès with a poem by Henri Cain. This French text, reflecting Basque life, presents a compelling narrative in four...

Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique: La Seconde Salle Favart, Volume 1, by Albert Soubies and Charles Malherbe, offers a detailed historical account of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, specifically focusing on the second Salle Favart. This volume...

Il libro ""Cenni Biografici Sulla Straordinaria Carriera Teatrale Percorsa Da Gio. Battista Rubini Da Romano (1844)"" scritto da Agostino Locatelli ����� una biografia che racconta la vita e la carriera del celebre tenore italiano Gio. Battista Rubini...

This book approaches opera fantasias - instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material - both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument...

Impara a suonare la musica di Giovanni Correddu. Fra le opere di questa raccolta troverai

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 is generally thought to have been composed in 1800. The work is in three movements: 1. Allegro con brio, 2. Largo, 3. Rondo. Allegro. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had a...

The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera's beginnings in Renaissance Italy, they were also opera composers and librettists. At first it was exclusively for the nobility. In the 19th...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by...

Giacomo Puccini is one of the most frequently performed and best loved of all operatic composers. In Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini's Late Style, Andrew Davis takes on the subject of Puccini's last two works to better understand how the composer...

Das Lieder-Album von Richard Strauss enthält einige der bekanntesten Lieder des Komponisten. Es ist ein unverzichtbares Werk für Sängerinnen und Sänger, die ihr Repertoire erweitern möchten. Auch Liebhaber klassischer Musik werden hier fündig.This work...

Un'opera completa in cinque atti di Eugène Scribe con la musica di Giuseppe Verdi. L'opera racconta la storia di Giovanna de Guzman, la figlia di un mercante spagnolo che si innamora di un cavaliere francese. Una lettura importante per coloro che...

This witty and charming comic opera tells the story of a shipwrecked sailor who becomes embroiled in a local legend of a cursed mermaid. Set against the picturesque backdrop of Cape Cod, this operetta is a delightful romp.This work has been selected by...

Nostradamus est une parodie en un acte de l'opéra Zoroastre de Cahusac, écrite par Taconet. L'opéra comique est une satire du genre de l'opéra, avec son intrigue difficile à suivre et ses complications de personnages. Les auditeurs apprécieront les airs...

An Italian opera set in the American West during the Gold Rush. The plot revolves around a saloon owner named Minnie, who falls in love with a mysterious stranger named Dick Johnson. The music, composed by Puccini, features elements of American folk...

Dieses Libretto ist eine romantische Oper in drei Akten, die im 19. Jahrhundert Aufsehen erregte. Die Musik von Francois-Adrien Boieldieu und der Text von Claude Baron Godart d'Aucourt de Saint-Just erzählen die Geschichte des Caliph von Bagdad und...

Nicaise est un opéra-comique en un acte de André Cardinal Destouches et Jean Joseph Vadé. Cet opéra raconte l'histoire de Nicaise, un jeune homme qui doit choisir entre son amour pour une belle jeune femme et son devoir envers son père autoritaire...

An Italian opera buffa written by Paisiello, with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni. The plot centers around a group of philosophers who become embroiled in a series of romantic entanglements while trying to solve philosophical problems. The music is...

Questa opera di Rossini è un classico dell'opera buffa. Con la sua musica vivace e i suoi personaggi caricaturali, questa commedia musicale mette in scena un furto che si trasforma in una serie di equivoci e inganni. Con i suoi colori brillanti e le sue...

È poco noto che Richard Wagner fu tra i primi occidentali ad apprezzare il buddismo e il primo grande artista europeo ad ispirarsi a questa religione. Nel 1856, nel pieno della sua creatività, l'artista 33enne lesse il suo primo libro sul buddismo...

Luciano Pavarotti was one of the best-loved international personalities of the 20th century. A singer who broke free of opera houses to perform before massive audiences in huge arenas around the world, becoming in the process the richest opera singer in...

This book presents the complete score for Claude-Achille Debussy's 1905 solo piano suite, "Suite bergamasque". Claude-Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918) was a seminal French composer. He is considered to be one of the most important pioneers of Impressionist...

The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture,...

The Conerto voor Saxofoon en Blassensemble was composed in 2018 for Dutch saxophonist Ati Lust and the Noord-Hollands Blazers Ensemble, under the direction of Lex Bak. Written in a tonal idiom, the concerto is in three movements, in which the soloist is...

Tutti conoscono Don Giovanni, l'incorreggibile libertino protagonista dell'omonima e celebre opera mozartiana, che rifiuta il pentimento andando incontro alla dannazione eterna. Pochi però ricordano il suo impertinente, ambiguo e meticoloso servitore...

This volume contains the complete score for Joseph Ravel's 1920 solo piano composition, "La Valse". Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) was a French pianist, composer, and conductor. He is considered to have been a significant figure within impressionism...

This biography tells the story of Alice May, a touring prima donna in the nineteenth century who travelled from England to Australia, New Zealand, India and the US, taking part in pioneering performances of the popular light operas of the day. Along the...

""Lisbeth, Drame Lyrique En Trois Actes Et En Prose"" est une pi�����ce de th����������tre �����crite par Edmond de Favieres en 1797. L'histoire se d�����roule en France pendant la R�����volution fran�����aise et suit les aventures de Lisbeth, une jeune...

For over twenty years, Joseph A. Kestner wrote for Opera News and other publications. Collected for the first time, Kestner's essays explore the creation, influence, context, and meaning of the world's most famous operas as well as hidden gems. For those...

Anhand der Tonartencharakteristik in knapp 2000 musikalisch eigenständigen Ausschnitten wird der semantische Gehalt von Verdis 28 Opern, von 20 Kanzonen und 7 geistlichen Werken erforscht und mit vielen Notenbeispielen belegt. Eine klare Struktur (12...

Originally for piano, Chabrier's Habanera was arranged for orchestra by the composer for a concert he conducted in Angers on November 4, 1888. The piano version was also the first to be published (Enoch Frères et Costallat, 1885). The orchestral version,...

Composed in 1853-54 as a kind of 'musical vacation' from the operas he was busy with, Gouod's first symphony was given its official premiere in Paris at a concert of the Société des jeunes artistes on March 4, 1855 under the direction of Georges...