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Viva La Liberta! Politics in Opera

Book by Anthony Arblaster; Verso, 1992

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Opera--Political Aspects

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in the history of opera, too, since it is the work...that helped to ensure the operas Parisian popularity. It had...and 500 by 1880. But its political content probably did it no...hardly have misunderstood the political significance of mounting an...song, it contains an ominous political message. This is both musically...
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Opera for the People

Book by Herbert Graf; University of Minnesota Press, 1951

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Opera--United States

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...the first ninety years of its history opera in America meant exclusively opera in English. Even after opera in foreign languages acquired its dominant...fact that the Metropolitan Opera, for political reasons, performed Wagner Parsifal...
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Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

Book by Philip Gossett; University of Chicago Press, 2006

Subjects:

Opera--Production And Direction, Operas--Performances

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...still today performing operas with their librettos...circulate widely, the opera avoided that fate...The effect on Italian opera of political and religious censorship...than many other Rossini operas. One manuscript of...fascinating alteration for political motives. Announcing...
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The Saga of the Sydney Opera House: The Dramatic Story of the Design and Construction of the Icon of Modern Australia

Book by Peter Murray; Routledge, 2004

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Sydney (N.S.W.)--Buildings, Structures, Etc, Sydney Opera House, Utzon, Jorn--1918-

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...become increasingly entangled in the problems of the Opera House; political, administrative, financial, technical and architectural...was little wonder he wanted to give up. The Sydney Opera House Executive Committee, the client for the first...
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French Opera at the Fin de Siecle: Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style

Book by Steven Huebner; Oxford University Press, 1999

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Opera--France--19th Century

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...than approve Zolas republican rustification in an opera whose political bias was made blatant by its very title. Addressing...German genius. Ironically, despite widely divergent political and patriotic agendas, they shared some territory...

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Journal Articles on: opera political

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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...entire repertory may reveal his operas as a source of inspiration (if not borrowing) for Grahams opera. Even a cursory overview of the number and style of operas from the early twentieth century...
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Music from a Dying Nation: Taiwanese Opera in China and Taiwan during World War II

Journal article by Hsieh Hsiao-Mei; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 27, 2010

Subjects:

Chinese (Taiwan) foreign relations--Social aspects, Chinese foreign relations--Social aspects, Chinese operas--History, Chinese operas--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...a Dying Nation: Taiwanese Opera in China and Taiwan during...also known as Taiwanese opera, originated in Taiwan and...Taiwan was mediated by the political relationship between Japan...and Cai 2004). While the operas that were popular on the island...gezai house they sang Taiwanese opera (Taiwan xizai), and they...
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The Value of "nothing": Ballads in the Beggar's Opera

Journal article by Steve Newman; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 45, 2004

Subjects:

Brewer, John, Gay, John, Opera, Theater criticism

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...distance between the political and the aesthetic...happy ending to the opera "no matter how absurdly...only to decide how operas end but also the fates...to conflict with its political interests. If anything...aesthetic wish and political will that allows for...alternative both to opera and to Tyburn and yet...by the absurdity of operas enforced comedy. Instead...
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Performing Resistance to the New Rural Order: an Unpublished Ballad Opera and the Green Song

Journal article by Gerald Porter, Jukka Tiusanen; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 47, 2006

Subjects:

Folk music, Literary criticism, Nature, Opera, Poetry

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Unpublished Ballad Opera and the Green...INTRODUCTION The new political and economic order...which makes the Opera into a partisan political entertainment...seem close to the political ventriloquism...The Charnwood Opera" derives from...
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"No Politics Here": Age and Gender in Soap Opera "Cyberfandom"

Journal article by Christine Scodari; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 21, 1998

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Chat rooms--Social aspects, Internet/Web advertising--Social aspects, Internet--Demographic aspects, Soap operas--Demographic aspects

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...politicization of the soap opera text--its insinuation...personal transcends the political--is reproduced in...and their attendant political meanings require illumination...and cosmetics, soap operas were designed and are...continued ... Soap operas around the world...in Bay City. Soap Opera Update, pp. 68...Garnham, N. (1995). Political economy and cultural...

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Magazine Articles on: opera political

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Breaking the Opus Dei Code: The Secretive Catholic Group's Name Means 'Work of God,' but in Washington, D.C., That Divine Task Has a Decidedly Political Bent

Magazine article by Rob Boston; Church & State, Vol. 59, May 2006

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Opus Dei--Evaluation, Opus Dei--Political activity, Religious institutions--Evaluation, Religious institutions--Political activity, Religious organizations--Evaluation, Religious organizations--Political activity

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Breaking the Opus Dei Code: The Secretive...Task Has a Decidedly Political Bent. by Rob Boston...McCloskey and other Opus Dei leaders deny any political agenda. They note...Catholics back the idea. Opus Deis political agenda is overlooked...
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Opus Dei, Advocatus Papae

Magazine article by Curtis Bill Pepper; The Nation, Vol. 255, August 3, 1992

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Beatification--Political aspects, Escriva de Balaguer, Josemaria--Biography, John Paul II, Pope--Political activity, Opus Dei--Political activity

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Opus Dei, Advocatus Papae. by Curtis Bill Pepper...Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, a powerful and secretive movement of...the church. Holding aloft proud banners, Opus Dei members prayed and wept with joy. Their...
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Green Day Dawns Anew: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Talks about the Band's Political and Provocative New Opus, American Idiot

Magazine article by Kurt B. Reighley; The Advocate, November 23, 2004

Subjects:

American Idiot (Sound recording)--Rankings, Armstrong, Billie Joe--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Armstrong, Billie Joe--Works, Green Day (Music group)--Product introduction, Singers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Singers--Works

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...Anew: Green Days Billie Joe Armstrong Talks about the Bands Political and Provocative New Opus, American Idiot. by Kurt B. Reighley Growing up around...unified album; some critics are already comparing it to rock operas like the Whos Tommy. Two of the discs tracks, "Jesus of...
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The Stuttgart Adonis: a Recently Rediscovered Opera by Johann Sigismund Cousser?

Magazine article by Samantha Owens; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Autumn 2006

Subjects:

Composers, Cousser, Johann Sigismund (1660-1727), German language, Historic documents, History, Opera, Stuttgart Germany, Theater

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Hamburg cathedral - he was made Hamburg opera Kapellmeister in 1695.15 Over the...years, Cousser staged four of his own operas (Erindo, oder Die unstrafliche Liebe...Unlike a number of Coussers other operas performed in Stuttgart, which had received...repertoire. Two of the foremost German opera composers of the day, Reinhard Keiser...foresook their regular duties in favour of opera, at least during periods of rehearsal...with the countless performances and operas, and the vocalists do not often take...
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This Cloud Had a Silver Lining: The Washington Opera Has Revived the Improbable Story of Horace and 'Baby' Tabor

Magazine article by T.L. Ponick; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, February 10, 1997

Subjects:

Tabor, Baby Doe--Biography, Tabor, Horace--Biography, The Ballad of Baby Doe (Opera)--Production and direction, Washington Opera--Production and direction

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...silver lining: the Washington Opera has revived the improbable...opera every season. "This opera means a lot to me, too...the quintessential American opera, filled with political and social themes and rousing...goods. Some have belittled the operas lush orchestration and occasional...

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Newspaper Articles on: opera political

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THE LADY OF THE FIRST NIGHT; Helen Hamlyn Talks about Reviving Her Late Husband's Scheme to Make the Royal Opera House Affordable for First-Timers, Fixing Covent Garden's Plumbing and Why She Has Given Up Donating to Political Parties

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 8, 2009

Subjects:

Plumbing industry, Political parties

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

...Husbands Scheme to Make the Royal Opera House Affordable for First...She Has Given Up Donating to Political Parties. WHEN Lady Helen...sponsored a night at the Royal Opera House for people who had never before seen opera, let alone been to Covent...
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Something Rotten in Verdi's Tale of Corruption; OPERA

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 11, 2009

Subjects:

Political corruption, Rigoletto (Opera)

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

...Rotten in Verdis Tale of Corruption; OPERA. Byline: NICK KIMBERLEY RIGOLETTO Covent...NOBODY goes to the opera for the interval yet intervals matter...the spell. Verdis Rigoletto is Italian opera at its most tunefully delirious but it...and shade, intimacy and energy. At the operas centre is the warped paternalism of Rigoletto...
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My Night of Passion with Annabel Goldie and Tommy Sheridan; (Easy, Now .. It Was Only Political Rabble-Rousing!) Kombat Opera - Question Time out BBC2, Sunday

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 15, 2007

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

...Easy, Now .. It Was Only Political Rabble-Rousing!) Kombat Opera - Question Time out BBC2...Anna were just two of the political heavyweights sat alongside...bringing the, ahem, real political heft to proceedings. Actually...worthwhile - as was Kombat Operas hysterically funny take on...
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So Just How Indiscreet Will Peter Mandelson's 'Soap Opera' Memoirs Be? the Promised Mix of High Politics and Low Gossip Has Westminster All of a Flutter over Peter Mandelson's Memoirs, Reports Political Editor Tomos Livingstone

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 10, 2010

Subjects:

Mandelson, Peter, Memoirs

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

...Will Peter Mandelsons Soap Opera Memoirs Be? the Promised Mix...Mandelsons Memoirs, Reports Political Editor Tomos Livingstone...the memoirs, like so many political autobiographies, be a disappointment...the Mandelson book that the political class takes on its summer holidays...
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City, Opera Raise Tenor of Dispute

Newspaper article by Sean Piccoli; The Washington Times, April 7, 1996

Subjects:

Washington Opera

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

City, opera raise tenor of dispute by...namely, the Washington Operas purchase of the Woodward Lothrop building downtown. The opera company, with a little juice...critics, she said, "Were not political. We do opera." Maybe its time to get some political skills. Nobody sells a project...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: opera political

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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...energy between 1705 and 1738 in composing operas. His first opera in England was Rinaldo (1711), an...operatic music. Verdi also wrote two operas for the Paris Opera: Les Vepres siciliennes ( The Sicilian...literature to produce strictly national operas. Russian opera was marked by the nonnational romanticism...
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Opus Dei

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

OPUS DEI o p s da e Lat.,=work of God...officially the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by a wealthy lawyer...Falange as the most important conservative political and religious force in Spain. Its influence...
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Scribe, Augustin EugÈne

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...he infused 19th-century French opera and drama with liberal political and religious ideas. Among the best...Lecouvreur (1849) was later adapted as an opera. Scribe wrote librettos for about 60 operas by such composers as Auber, Meyerbeer...
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Spinoza, Baruch

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Treatise on Religious and Political Philosophy (1670, the only...posthumously (1677). His Opera Posthuma (1677) also include his Political Treatise, Treatise on the...virtue, and power are one. Political Philosophy Politically, Spinoza...
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Chinese Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...highly developed. Chinese opera originated in the 14th cent...Modern History Throughout the political and social turmoil following...musical value. The Beijing Opera has produced numerous new works...1949, most of them concerning political topics. It is one of the few...

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