Sing Me a Story
Author | : Jane Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780500278734 |
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
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Author | : Jane Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780500278734 |
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
Author | : Vincent Giroud |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1442260858 |
Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history than Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. Based on a highly successful 1851 play inspired by the short stories by the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the work occupied the last decade of Offenbach’s life. When he died in October 1880, the work was being rehearsed at the Opéra-Comique. At once cut and rearranged, the work was performed from the start in versions that ignored the composer’s final intentions. Only a few decades ago, when previously unavailable manuscripts came to light, it became possible to reconstitute the score in its real form. Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye’s The Real 'Tales of Hoffmann' tells the full story for the first time in English. After discussing how the work of Hoffmann became known and influential in France, the book includes little-known sources for the opera, especially the complete Barbier and Carré play, in French and English. It describes the genesis of the opera. The annotated libretto is published in full, with the variants, for the two versions of the opera: with spoken dialogue or recitatives. Essays explain what was done to the opera after Offenbach’s death, from the 1881 Opéra-Comique production to more recent restoration attempts. There is also a survey of Les contes d’Hoffmann in performance from the 1970s to the present, and supplementary information, including discography, filmography, and videography. The Real 'Tales of Hoffmann' is intended to appeal to anyone interested in the work, specialists or non-specialists. Audiences, musicologists and students of French opera and opéra-comique will find it of particular interest, as will opera houses, conductors, singers, directors, and dramaturgs involved in performances of the opera.
Author | : Lotfi Mansouri |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459705157 |
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 Mansouri. From the hilarious to the bizarre, this is a reader-friendly look at what is often thought of as an overly serious, even mysterious form of art.
Author | : Mary Dibbern |
Publisher | : Pendragon Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781576470336 |
Mary Dibbern, Music Director of Education and Family Programs at The Dallas Opera, and adjunct faculty member at the University of North Texas has created a Performance Guide for Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann. This contribution to the Vox Musicae series presents a word-by-word translation and IPA transcription of the published versions of the French libretto, and her translations of its literary sources trace the libretto's development from E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Tales." The Guide includes an interview with French opera specialist Janine Reiss, and a Foreword by Thomas Grubb. This well-rounded volume is designed for use by singers, vocal coaches, conductors, producers and directors, as well as opera-lovers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781901223415 |
The author's rewriting of opera stories from seven different composers combined with illustrations and a select discography, introduces to children some of the great operatic themes of the last 200 years.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780679893158 |
Capture the excitement of a night at the opera with this stunning collection of eight favorite opera stories, each illustrated by a different artist.The Magic FluteAidaCarmenThe Cunning Little VixenTurandotCinderellaHansel & GretelThe Love for Three Oranges
Author | : Paul Langan |
Publisher | : Paul Langan |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1777864305 |
The history of opera and operettas in the Waterloo County/Region in Ontario Canada from 1880-2020. Features chapters on: Berlin Opera House, Scott's Opera House, Twin City Operatic Society, Mabel Krug, Preston Operatic Society, Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Opera at Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener-Waterloo Opera Guild, Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Operettas, Opera Ontario, K-W Opera, Kitchener Opera, Vera Causa Opera and so much more. Guest writers - Leslie De'Ath and Dr. Ted Rhodes.
Author | : Nina Penner |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253049989 |
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.
Author | : Ann Fiery |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780811827744 |
A tribute to thirty renowned operas shares the plots and theatrical backgrounds of each, in a volume that covers such productions as Figaro and Turandot.
Author | : Gaston Leroux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781435167131 |
This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, which launched the gothic novel craze, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Arthur Machen, Louisa May Alcott, E. T. A. Hoffmann, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, and Vernon Lee.