Category: Opera

The operatic life of the librettist for Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro.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...
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The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

By: Gilbert, William

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : September 1997

Seller ID: 619873

ISBN-13: 9780393316889

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.
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Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round (Limelight)

By: Lee, M. Owen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Limelight : January 1994

Seller ID: 512898

ISBN-13: 9700879101860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

100 Great Operas and their Stories

By: Simon, Henry W.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : November 2010

Seller ID: 780425

ISBN-13: 9780385054485

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An invaluable guide for both casual opera fans and aficionados, 100 Great Operas is perhaps the most comprehensive and enjoyable volume of opera stories ever written. From La Traviata to A da, from Carmen to Don Giovanni, here are the plots of the world's best-loved operas, told in an engaging, picturesque, and readable manner. Written by noted opera authority Henry W. Simon, this distinctive reference book contains act-by-act descriptions of 100 operatic works ranging from the historic early seventeenth century masterpieces of Monteverdi to the modern classics of Gian-Carlo Menotti. In addi...
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William Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose

By: Taylor, Jane

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : May 2017

Seller ID: 784462

ISBN-13: 9780226791203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

South African artist William Kentridge's drawings, films, books, installations, and collaborations with opera and theater companies have established him as a world-class star in contemporary art, media, and theater. In 2010, and again in 2013, he staged Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera; after the premiere, the New York Times noted that "Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets and created the videos that animate the staging, received the heartiest bravos." In this book, Jane Taylor, Kentridge's friend and frequent collaborator, invites us to take ...
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Category: Opera

Opera: Composers. Works. Performers

Librettist of Venice

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

Wagner's Ring: Turning the Sky Round (Limelight)

100 Great Operas and their Stories

William Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose