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Le nozze di Figaro
| Author | : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Publisher | : Alma Books |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0714545333 |
John Wells introduces the opera with a high-spirited account of the action-packed career of the author, in many respects the prototype of Figaro himself. Basil Deane explores the score: he shows that Mozart's characters are illuminated here not so much in soliloquies but in their reactions to each other. Composer Stephen Oliver discusses how the comedy exists not just in the words but, essentially, in the music. The full Italian text is given, with a note on the order of scenes in Act Three and the alternative passages Mozart wrote for the 1789 revival. The classic translation of E.J. Dent is an excellent way to get to know the twists and turns of the plot and the stylish wit of da Ponte's innuendos.Contents: A Society Marriage, John Wells; A Musical Commentary, Basil Deane; Music and Comedy in 'The Marriage of Figaro, Stephen Oliver; Beaumarchais's Characters; Le nozze di Figaro: Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte; The Marriage of Figaro: English version by Edward J. Dent
Who Married Figaro?
| Author | : Joyce Bourne Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
"From Aeneas to Zaida, Who Married Figaro? contains more than 2,500 entries on operatic characters from around the world. Giving details of the composer of each role as well as notable performances, this unique reference book also provides comprehensive synopses for over 200 operas and operettas. It features articles by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Placido Domingo, Dame Janet Baker, and, new to this edition, Christine Brewer, Susan Bullock, Simon Keenlyside, and Joyce DiDonato. This fully revised edition now contains an appendix of contemporary opera of the last ten years, offering detailed synopses and world premiere cast lists. Up to date, authoritative, and packed with valuable information, this A-Z is an essential book for opera lovers."--BOOK JACKET.
The Marriage of Figaro
| Author | : Tim Carter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1987 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780521316064 |
This handbook provides the reader with the first comprehensive guide to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Tim Carter discusses the composition of the opera and the social, cultural and musical context in which it was produced, its critical reception and performance history. He provides a full analytical synopsis, a chapter on the verse structure of the libretto and a discussion of Mozart's matching of music to drama. Other chapters also consider relevant topics, including the 'comic' possibilities of the Classical style, and Michael Robinson writes on opera buffa in the 1770s and 1780s.
The Figaro Trilogy
| Author | : Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2003-10-09 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0191604569 |
The Barber of Seville * The Marriage of Figaro * The Guilty Mother Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theatre star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to put with Don Quixote or D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? Not the impertinent valet of the operas of Mozart or Rossini, but both the spirit of resistance to oppression and a bourgeois individualist like his creator. The three plays in which he plots and schemes chronicle the slide of the ancien régime into revolution but also chart the growth of Beaumarchais' humanitarianism. They are also exuberant theatrical entertainments, masterpieces of skill, invention, and social satire which helped shape the direction of French theatre for a hundred years. This lively new translation catches all the zest and energy of the most famous valet in French literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Mozart's Women
| Author | : Jane Glover |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0330470507 |
Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women. He loved and respected them, composed for them, performed with them. This unique biography looks at his interaction with each, starting with his family (his mother, Maria Anna and beloved and talented sister, Nannerl), and his marriage (which brought his 'other family', the Weber sisters). His relationships with his artists are examined, in particular those of his operas, through whose characters Mozart gave voice to the emotions of women who were, like his entire female acquaintance, restrained by the conventions and structures of eighteenth-century society. This is their story as well as his -- and shows once again that a great part of the composer’s genius was in his understanding and musical expression of human nature. Evocative and beautifully written, Mozart’s Women illuminates the music, the man, and above all the women who inspired him. 'Jane Glover has pulled off a coup des livres with her fresh take on Mozart's life and work’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Readable, informative and moving...Her passion for the music shines through this touching, vividly told story' Sunday Times
Figaro
| Author | : Charles Morey |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 76 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0822229382 |
He's getting married in the morning, and the enterprising Figaro (servant, barber, professional troublemaker) couldn't be happier. But with everybody scheming to come between him and his bride, Figaro will need all his cunning to make it down the aisle. This new adaptation of Beaumarchais' comic masterpiece is not only hilariously funny, but has a razor sharp political edge.
Amadeus
| Author | : Peter Shaffer |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 111 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Composers |
| ISBN | : 9780141188898 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God s instrument on earth. Peter Shaffer s award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy."
The Librettist of Venice
| Author | : Rodney Bolt |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2008-12-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1596919825 |
In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.
The Marriage of Figaro
| Author | : Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 83 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0822221330 |
Deftly wrought...a cozy, effective little chiller...you will probably feel speechless with sadness. --NY Times. Well-written...triumphs in dramatizing the unknown. --The New Yorker. A shattering new play. --Associated Press. Cunningly-crafted with aching we
