The First Comic Opera In America
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| Author | : Ken Wlaschin |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2024-10-16 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1476612382 |
This encyclopedia lists, describes and cross-references everything to do with American opera: works (both operas and operettas), composers, librettists, singers, and source authors, along with relevant recordings. The approximately 1,750 entries range from ballad operas and composers of the 18th century to modern minimalists and video opera artists. Each opera entry consists of plot, history, premiere and cast, followed by a chronological listing of recordings, movies and videos.
| Author | : Richard Jacob Kraft |
| Publisher | : Siglio Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781938221088 |
In this wildly irreverent collage narrative, Los Angeles artist Richard Kraft reassembles a pre-perestroika era comic about a Polish spy infiltrating the Nazis, orchestrating a multiplicity of voices into joyous cacophony. Like an Indian miniature painting, each comic book page is densely layered, collapsing foreground and background, breaking the frame and merging time. An enormous cast of characters emerges as Kraft appropriates images and texts from an extraordinary variety of sources (the Amar Chitra Katha comics of Hindu mythology, Jimmy Swaggart's Old and New Testament stories, the 1960s English football annual Scorcher, underground porn comics like Cherry, images from art history, outdated encyclopedias and more). Kraft constructs a world constantly in flux, rich with dark humor and revelatory nonsense. Writer Danielle Dutton's set of 16 interpolations punctuate the book using similar strategies of appropriation and juxtaposition to create texts that sing in the same arresting register as Kraft's collages. Here Comes Kitty also includes a conversation between poet Ann Lauterbach and artist Richard Kraft.
| Author | : Kurt Gänzl |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2021-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1438485476 |
In this, the first book to focus on the original cast members of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, world-renowned musical theater expert Kurt Gänzl provides a concise history of the writing and production of each opera, vividly colored by the often little-known life stories of these early performers. Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated with rare photographs, Gilbert and Sullivan: The Players and the Plays delves into the professional and personal lives of the British and American actors and singers who created the celebrated "famous fourteen" Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
| Author | : Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2005-03-31 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0141960736 |
A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro - condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege - depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woman. With characteristic lightness of touch, Beaumarchais created an audacious farce of disguise and mistaken identity that balances wit, frivolity and seriousness in equal measure.
| Author | : Donald Jay Grout |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1049 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Opera |
| ISBN | : 0231119585 |
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
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| Total Pages | : 664 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : American periodicals |
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| Author | : Elise Kuhl Kirk |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 492 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780252026232 |
A treasure trove of information, "American Opera" sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas. 86 photos.
| Author | : Andrew Lamb |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780300075380 |
Covers the development of musicals, from the earliest European operetta styles of France and Germany to the modern musical of the United States and Britain.
| Author | : Thomas Carter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1782 |
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| Author | : Ethan Mordden |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2013-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199892830 |
Offers a history of American musical theater from the 1920s through to the 1970s, and includes such famous works as "Oklahoma!," "The Red Mill," and "Porgy and Bess."
