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Alfredo Catalani la WALLY
A new STUDY GUIDE with LIBRETTO of Alfredo Catalani's classic verismo opera, LA WALLY, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Narrative, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a new LIBRETTO with Italian-English translation in parallel, side-by-side, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Genesis and Background.
The Autumn of Italian Opera
The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
The Rough Guide to Opera
Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
The Toscanini Mystique
Kenneth A. Christensens THE TOSCANINI MYSTIQUE, is the first full length biography about the legendary Italian conductors life and career in almost thirty-five years. Maestro Toscanini had a frigid and extremely unhappy childhood, along with a severe musical education at the Parma Conservatory. This unglamorized account of a gifted teenagers professional conducting debut at Rio de Janerios Teatro Imperial, is told as it really happened. Toscanini was married to a ballerina, Carla De Martini, who bore him four children, but also had an illegitimate son with a gifted soprano, who was born retarded. Toscaninis vulgar mistreatment of nearly all the singers and musicians who performed under his d...
Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
An unusual look at Italian opera in the nineteenth century.
The Politics of Opera in Turn-of-the-century Italy
Alfredo Catalani's letters contain an eyewitness account of the process of creating opera in turn-of-the-century Italy. They show what he and his contemporaries, among them Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Giordano, went through to obtain a libretto, arrange a premiere, and encourage subsequent productions of a new score. This volume provides readers not versed in Italian an opportunity to learn about the composer of La Wally and Loreley.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
"The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, is a comprehensive resource on the study of opera designed for scholars and opera aficionados. Its 11,000 articles, written by more than 1,300 of the world's leading critics and scholars, cover 1,800 operas from the late 16th century Florentine Camerata, through the great 18th and 19th century operas, to contemporary works such as the minimalist theatre pieces of Philip Glass. The lives and works of more than 2900 composers and hundreds of singers from Francesco Rasi in the 17th century to Luciano Pavarotti in the 20th are discussed in biographical articles. Indexes of character names and arias make it easy to find what you are looking for. Illustrations throughout the book present rare photographs, reproductions of original posters, set and costume designs, and scenes from modern productions."--Publisher's description.
