Opera
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Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World’s Most Popular Composer
$22.00 Add to cartPuccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated ou
- Author: Berger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400077788
- Language: English
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Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera
$24.00 Add to cartEverything 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- Author: Berger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 037570518X
- Language: English
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Opera Wars: Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
$30.00 Add to cartImmerse yourself in the captivating and surprisingly contentious world of opera with this compelling unveiling of the art form’s bold characters and the fierce struggles that are redefining its future… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1668084066
- Language: English
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
$21.99 Read moreOpera 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 th… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0786880252
- Language: English
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
$12.99 Add to cartExperience the magic of the Disney animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs like never before in this beautiful storybook with behind-the-scenes artwork.
This fresh retelling follows the charm- Series: Animated Classics
- Author: Editors of Studio Fun International
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0794444962
- Language: English
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Wagner and the Creation of the Ring
$29.95 Add to cartPart cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write … [more below]
- Author: Downes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369155
- Language: English
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Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry
$19.95 Add to cart“Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas have attained a secure place in the reper
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881966
- Language: English
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A History of Opera
$24.95 Read moreWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of ope… [more below]
- Author: Abbate, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393348954
- Language: English
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The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera
$20.00 Read moreA user’s guide to opera–Matthew Aucoin, “the most promising operatic talent in a generation” (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares
- Author: Aucoin, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 125085881X
- Language: English
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Song and Self: A Singer’s Reflections on Music and Performance
$22.00 Read moreAward-winning singer Ian Bostridge examines iconic works of Western classical music to reflect on the relationship between performer and audience.
Like so many performers, renowned tenor Ian Bostridg- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Bostridge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022680948X
- Language: English
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Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
$32.00 Read moreThe true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of “a life that comes out of chaos.”
At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’- Author: Gordon, Ricky Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605726
- Language: English
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La Traviata: Vocal Score
$41.99 Read more(Vocal Score). Italian Only Cloth Score.
- Author: Verdi, Giuseppe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0634072641
- Language: English
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Beauty and Sadness: Mahler’s 11 Symphonies
$16.99 Add to cart‘A beautiful and important book’ – Marina Mahler
Gustav Mahler wrote some of the most challenging and cherished music of all time: eleven extraordinary symphonies that continue to fascinate, intrigue a
- Author: Vernon, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1739659902
- Language: English
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A New Philosophy of Opera
$29.99 Add to cartKnown as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges
- Author: Sharon, Yuval
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496867
- Language: English
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Overture of Hope: Two Sisters’ Daring Plan That Saved Opera’s Jewish Stars from the Third Reich
$27.99 Read moreSchindler’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 spinste… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513499
- Language: English
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Great Singers on Great Singing: A Famous Opera Star Interviews 40 Famous Opera Singers on the Technique of Singing
$34.95 Add to cartJerome Hines has interviewed 40 singers, a speech therapist, and a throat specialist to provide this invaluable collection of advice for all singers. This collection includes the commentary of Licia A… [more below]
- Series: Limelight
- Author: Hines, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0879100257
- Language: English
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Famous Italian Opera Arias: A Dual-Language Book a Dual-Language Book
$9.95 Add to cartWith this handy dual-language volume, students of Italian can improve their knowledge of the language while enjoying the passion and poetry of some of the most famous arias ever written. Included are
- Series: Dual-Language Book
- Author: Opera and Choral Scores
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 14 1996
- ISBN10: 0486291588
- Language: English
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Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling biographer Anne Edwards comes the irresistible true story of the lives and loves of the great opera diva, Maria Callas.
Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us decade- Author: Edwards, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0312310021
- Language: English
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Opera Encore: Collected Essays on the Grand Art
$22.00 Add to cartFor 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’
- Author: Kestner, Joseph A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986601502
- Language: English
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The Ring of the Nibelung
$30.00 Add to cartA superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner’s Ring cycle
The scale and grandeur of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no success- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Wagner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0241305853
- Language: English
