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Opera for the People

Book by Herbert Graf; University of Minnesota Press, 1951

Subjects:

Opera--United States

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OPERA FOR THE PEOPLE OPERA for the people by HERBERT GRAF STAGE DIRECTOR, METROPOLITAN OPERA THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press COPYRIGHT 1951 BY THE UNIVERSITY...
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Opera Odyssey: Toward a History of Opera in Nineteenth-Century America

Book by June C. Ottenberg; Greenwood Press, 1994

Subjects:

Opera--United States--19th Century

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Ottenberg synthesizes material from a variety of sources--annals, memoirs, and scholarly sources--and, with them, weaves a coherent narrative of what was performed where, by whom, and what developments took place. Works, companies, and individual singers are discussed to reveal the 19th-century ...
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Ottenberg synthesizes material from a variety of sources--annals, memoirs, and scholarly sources--and, with them, weaves a coherent narrative of what was performed where, by whom, and what developments took place. Works, companies, and individual singers are discussed to reveal the 19th-century world of performance styles and audience expectations. This is a fascinating look at a relatively unexplored part of American musical and cultural history; the book casts new light on opera in America--its variety, popularity, and appeal to changing audiences throughout the century.
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Opera: Desire, Disease, Death

Book by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon; University of Nebraska, 1996

Subjects:

Death In Opera, Diseases In Opera, Sex In Opera

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...Linda Hutcheon Michael Hutcheon Opera: Desire, Disease, Death University...Publication Data Hutcheon, Linda, 1947- Opera: desire, disease, death / Linda Hutcheon...0-8032-7318-5 pa: alk. paper 1. Sexuality in opera. 2. Diseases in opera. 3. Opera Social...
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Opera and the Culture of Fascism

Book by Jeremy Tambling; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Fascism And Culture--Germany, Fascism And Culture--Italy, Music--Social Aspects--Germany, Music--Social Aspects--Italy, Opera--Europe--19th Century, Opera--Europe--20th Century

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Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high ...
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Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.
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Opera Companies of the World: Selected Profiles

Book by Robert H. Cowden; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Opera Companies--Directories

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Here for the first time are in-depth profiles of 139 major opera companies from around the globe, representing 35 countries and including little-known information on opera in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, and Turkey. Briefly noted in an appendix are an ...
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Here for the first time are in-depth profiles of 139 major opera companies from around the globe, representing 35 countries and including little-known information on opera in the People's Republic of China, Israel, Japan, the Republic of South Africa, and Turkey. Briefly noted in an appendix are an additional 24 companies from ten countries. The profiles provide directory and access information, a survey of the company's history, and, wherever possible, a chronological listing of directors and managers, and a concise bibliography for further reference. An annotated research bibliography and a chronology of the foundings of the opera companies and an index complete the volume.
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Debuting Her Political Voice: The Lost Opera of Shirley Graham

Journal article by Sarah Schmalenberger; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

African American women musicians--History, African American women musicians--Works, Du Bois, Shirley Graham--History, Du Bois, Shirley Graham--Works, Opera scores--History, Operas--History, Operas--Scores and parts

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Debuting Her Political Voice: The Lost Opera of Shirley Graham. by Sarah Schmalenberger...have been lost: the musical score to her opera Tom Tom, a three-act spectacle that she...premiered in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932. (1) The opera contains valuable clues connecting the...
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Opera in Nigeria: The Case of Duro Ladipo's "Qba Koso."

Journal article by Abiodun Duro-Ladipo, Gboyega Kolawole; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 17, 1997

Subjects:

Composers--Nigeria, Lapido, Duro--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nigeria--Music, Operas--Nigeria, Qba Koso (Opera)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Opera in Nigeria: the case of Duro Ladipos "Qba Koso." by...contemporary theatrical form, both in the traditional folk opera and in the works of those playwrights and directors commonly...and Operas of Duro Ladipo It is a common idea that the opera in Nigeria was a literary and musical subgenre borrowed from...
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Reinventing Opera: Seventeen Dolls and A Rainbow Warrior

Journal article by Anne Power; Journal of Australian Studies, 1999

Subjects:

Music and society--Analysis, Operas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Opera)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (Opera)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Reinventing Opera: Seventeen Dolls And A Rainbow Warrior by Anne Power Opera is reinventing itself, pushing its own boundaries...Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in a season from Opera Australia, and The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior...
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Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

Journal article by Matthew Head; Women & Music, 2002

Subjects:

Rethinking Authorship through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Book)

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...through Women Composers: Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age...Letzter and Robert Adelsons Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age...intended as criticisms of Women Writing Opera, and I do not imply that the authors have...
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Three Stories of Celebrity: 'The Beggar's Opera' "Biographies

Journal article by Cheryl Wanko; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998

Subjects:

Drama--Influence, Gay, John--Works, The Beggar's Opera (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Three stories of celebrity: The Beggars Opera "biographies. by Cheryl Wanko...there is some secret magic in the Beggars Opera, for ever since they first acted it, which...commentary, the influence of The Beggars Opera (1728) is unprecedented among eighteenth-century...

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Opera Comique or Salle Favart and Bizet's Carmen

Magazine article by Mary Jane Wilson; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 113, Winter 2006

Subjects:

Arts centers--Evaluation, Carmen (Opera)--Performances, Operas--Performances

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Opera Comique or Salle Favart and Bizets Carmen. by Mary Jane Wilson Near Garniers Opera House, tucked away off Boulevard des Italiens on Rue Favart, is the beautiful Opera Comique or Salle Favart. Charles Favart (1710-1792), the son of a pastry cook...
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Opera Note

Magazine article by Patrick J. Smith; New Criterion, Vol. 23, November 2004

Subjects:

Agrippina (Opera)--Opera reviews, Beatrice et Benedict (Opera)--Opera reviews, Don Giovanni (Opera)--Opera reviews, La Sonnambula (Opera)--Opera reviews, Operas--Opera reviews, Simone Boccanegra (Opera)--Opera reviews

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Opera Note. by Patrick J. Smith Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, Beatrice and Benedict, Agrippina La Sonnambula at the Santa Fe Opera. The Santa Fe Opera had modest beginnings in the late 1950s: open-air seating, a reflecting pool behind the orchestra pit, and the...
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Opera Boss

Magazine article by Jay Nordlinger; National Review, Vol. 58, June 5, 2006

Subjects:

Arts organizations--Officials and employees, Metropolitan Opera--Officials and employees, Volpe, Joe--Appreciation, Volpe, Joe--Management

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Opera Boss. by Jay Nordlinger WHEN I walk into Joe Volpes office, hes just getting off the phone--with Luciano Pavarotti. Volpe is general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, only weeks from retirement. Pavarotti, of course, is the biggest opera star of our time (and thats not a fat reference). The great tenor has been sick lately...
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Royal Opera House Update

Magazine article by Jann Parry; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, March 1999

Subjects:

Ballet companies--Management, Royal Ballet--Management, Royal Opera House (building)--Management

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ROYAL OPERA HOUSE UPDATE. by Jann Parry...taken a terrible battering since the Royal Opera House closed for rebuilding in July 1997...of Culture and the chairman of the Royal Opera House to protest the way performers were...
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The Bigot's Opera

Magazine article by Michael Linton; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, November 2003

Subjects:

Fundamentalism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Minnesota Opera Company--Evaluation, Operas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ruders, Poul--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Handmaid's Tale (Opera)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

The Bigots Opera. by Michael Linton The Commander...sections of Danish composer Poul Ruders opera, The Handmaids Tale, adapted from the novel...performances in Copenhagen in March 2000, the opera enthralled listeners (it was greeted with...

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Opera Quiz Winner's Next Stage Is New York

Newspaper article by Michele Reaves; The Washington Times, February 19, 2000

Subjects:

Washington Opera

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Opera quiz winners next stage is New York by Michele Reaves...genre of music to todays pop culture for some teen-agers: opera. Singing violins, moaning cellos, heart-pounding kettle...answering the competitions first question about why he loved opera. The third and final battle of wits to declare a Washington-area...
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Opera Divas: Ready for Their Close -Ups?

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 15, 2008

Subjects:

Manon Lescaut (Opera), Mattila, Karita, Opera singers

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Opera Divas: Ready for Their Close -Ups? Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES...a certain age to play a young teenager." Few of those sitting in Lincoln Centers grand opera house would have noticed. Unless youve got a very good pair of opera glasses, you wouldnt be able to make out much of the singers faces across the cavernous...
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Opera Wins Woodies Site Auction: $18 Million Bid Prevails in N.Y

Newspaper article by Anne Marriott; The Washington Times, March 21, 1996

Subjects:

Washington Opera

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Opera wins Woodies site auction: $18 million bid prevails in N.Y by Anne Marriott NEW YORK - The Washington Opera yesterday scored a stunning coup with an $18 million winning...historic department store building in downtown Washington. The opera company beat out a pair of local land developers who bid...
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Opera or Not, 'Phantom' Sings; Players Big and Small Refine Kennedy Center Stage

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 25, 2007

Subjects:

Phantom of the Opera (Play), Theater

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Opera or Not, Phantom Sings; Players Big and Small Refine Kennedy Center Stage. Byline: Kelly Jane Torrance, THE WASHINGTON TIMES "The Phantom of the Opera" is there, inside the Kennedy Center Opera House. Andrew Lloyd Webber should be pleased. Though the composer was one of the first to bring popular...
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Opera Is the Food of Love; Welsh National Opera Opens Its New Season Tonight with the Magic Flute. Karen Price Enjoys a Spot of Lunch with Two of the Stars - Real-Life Couple David Soar and Camilla Roberts Centre Feature

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 15, 2008

Subjects:

Magic Flute (Opera)

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Opera Is the Food of Love; Welsh National Opera Opens Its New Season Tonight with the Magic Flute. Karen...As they take a break from rehearsals with Welsh National Opera they are discussing one of Soars passions - cooking. Like...

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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

OPERA drama set to music. Characteristics The libretto...neither form necessarily excludes elements of the other. Opera differs from operetta in its musical complexity and usually...without scenery, costumes, or stage action. Although both opera and operetta may have spoken dialogue, in opera the dialogue...
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Metropolitan Opera Company

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY term used in referring collectively to the organizations that have produced opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. The original house, at West 39th Street...
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Ballad Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BALLAD OPERA in English drama, a play of comic, satiric, or pastoral intent, interspersed...songs, most of them sung to popular airs. First and best was The Beggars Opera (1728) by John Gay . The vogue for these operas lasted until c.1750...
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Opera Glass

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

OPERA GLASS see binocular . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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OpÉra

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

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