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  • Since You've Been Gone

    by Claire Rowden ...
    Grief has left Jess moving through life like a shadow, her cat the only steady presence in the quiet house she once filled with love.Then she meets Louise - a woman whose calm warmth feels uncannily familiar, as though she's known Jess far longer than their first conversation.Under Louise's gentle guidance, the fog begins to lift. Jess finds herself drawn back toward the one person she never truly ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Opera in Transnational Contexts

    Circulating Identities and Cultures

    Edited by Barbara Gentili, Paulo M. Kühl, Clair Rowden ...
    Series series Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
    Opera in Transnational Contexts: Circulating Identities and Cultures sheds important light onto the travels of operatic works and the types of cultural exchanges that occurred as a result of the music, composers, singers, impresarios and others moving from one locale to another between the late eighteenth and twentieth centuries.Contributors reveal how complex constructions of identity and ... Read more

    $85.19 CAD

  • Carmen Abroad

    Bizet's Opera on the Global Stage

    Edited by Richard Langham Smith, Clair Rowden ...
    From the 'old world' to the 'new' and back again, this transnational history of the performance and reception of Bizet's Carmen – whose subject has become a modern myth and its heroine a symbol – provides new understanding of the opera's enduring yet ever-evolving and resituated presence and popularity. This book examines three stages of cultural transfer: the opera's establishment in the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Performing Salome, Revealing Stories

    Edited by Clair Rowden ...
    Series series Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
    With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    by George Handel ...
    This file includes: Acis and Galatea; Admeto; Alexander Balus; Alexander's Feast; An Occasional Oratorio; Ariodante; Athalia; Belshazzar; The Choice of Hercules; Deborah; Esther; Giulio Cesare; Israel in Egypt; Jephtha; Joseph and His Brethern; Joshua; Judas Maccabaeus; L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed Il Moderato; Messiah; An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day; Rinaldo, in Italian; Samson; Semele; Solomon; ... Read more

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  • Opera in the Age of Rousseau

    Music, Confrontation, Realism

    by David Charlton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Opera
    Historians of French politics, art, philosophy and literature have long known the tensions and fascinations of Louis XV's reign, the 1750s in particular. David Charlton's study comprehensively re-examines this period, from Rameau to Gluck and elucidates the long-term issues surrounding opera. Taking Rousseau's Le Devin du Village as one narrative centrepiece, Charlton investigates this opera's ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • The Sorcerer of Bayreuth

    Richard Wagner, his Work and his World

    by Barry Millington ...
    Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most influential - and also one of the most controversial - composers in the history of music. Over the course of his long career, he produced a stream of spellbinding works that challenged musical convention through their richness and tonal experimentation, ultimately paving the way for modernism. This book presents an in-depth but easy-to-read overview of ... Read more

    $63.59 CAD

  • Rossini's Barber Of Seville - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

    by Burton D. Fisher ...
    A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Bizet's Carmen - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

    by Burton D. Fisher ...
    A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

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  • The Sorcerer - An Entirely Original Modern Comic Opera - In Two Acts (Vocal Score)

    by W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan ...
    “The Sorcerer” is a comic musical opera written by Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert in 1896. Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together they collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896 which are still performed and loved today. Among their most famous works are ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jenufa

    Translations and Pronunciation, Volume 3

    by Timothy Cheek ...
    Series series The Janácek Opera Libretti Series
    Czech composer Leoš Janácek’s most famous opera, Jenufa is a harrowing tale of forbidden love, abandonment, hypocrisy, desperation, and tragic infanticide. As today’s second most frequently performed Czech opera (following Dvorák’s Rusalka), Jenufa holds a prominent place in international opera repertoire and continues to draw the attention of new audiences.Drawing on both scholarly studies and ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Women Opera Composers

    Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century

    by Mary F. McVicker ...
    The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera's beginnings in Renaissance Italy, they were also opera composers and librettists. At first it was exclusively for the nobility. In the 19th century, with the emergence of the middle class and the rise of nationalism, there were more public theaters and opera seemed to be everywhere. This ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD