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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Martin, George Whitney.     Subjects     Opera.     Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Martin, George Whitney.       by title:      The opera companion ...       by call number:      782.1 M381o     Search the Web     Martin, George Whitney.     Opera.     Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.       MARC Display

The opera companion / by George Martin ; drawings by Everett Raymond Kinstler. by Martin, George Whitney. Amadeus Press, 2008. Call #: 782.1 M381o Subjects Opera.   Operas -- Stories, plots, etc. ISBN:  9781574671681 (pbk.) 1574671685 (pbk.) Description:  xvi, 693 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Notes:  Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dodd, Mead, 1961. With an added pref. by the author (p. xv-xvi). Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  The casual operagoer's guide. The overture, the prelude and three chords -- Melody, aria and recitative -- The operatic voice as an artistic instrument -- The operatic voice as a mechanical instrument -- The castrati -- Sounds of the orchestra : the instruments -- Sounds of the orchestra : the scoring for Carmen -- Tuning 'A' : the problem of pitch -- The claque -- Ballet in opera -- The emergence of opera as a form of public entertainment -- A history of opera in terms of persons and houses : seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- A history of opera in terms of persons and houses : nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Glossary. A glossary of operatic terms and miscellanea -- The synopses. Orfeo, 1762 -- Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail, 1782 -- Le Nozze di Figaro, 1786 -- Don Giovanni, 1787 -- Cosi fan tutte, 1790 -- Die Zauberfloete, 1791 -- Fidelio, 1805 -- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 1816 -- L'Elisir d'Amore, 1832 -- Lucia di Lammermoor, 1835 -- Don Pasquale, 1843 -- Der Fliegende Hollaender, 1843 -- Tannhaeuser, 1845 -- Lohengrin, 1850 -- Tristan und Isolde, 1865 -- Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg, 1868 -- (Der Ring des Nibelungen) Die Walkuere, 1870 -- Parsifal, 1882 -- Nabucco, 1842 -- Macbeth, 1847 -- Rigoletto, 1851 -- Il Trovatore, 1853 -- La Traviata, 1853 -- Simon Boccanegra, 1857 -- Un Ballo in Maschera, 1859 -- La Forza del Destino, 1862 -- Don Carlo, 1867 -- Aida, 1871 -- Otello, 1887 -- Faust, 1859 -- Samson et Dalila, 1877 -- Carmen, 1875 -- Boris Godunov, 1874 -- Eugene Onegin, 1879 -- Manon, 1884 -- I Pagliacci, 1892 -- Manon Lescaut, 1893 -- La Boheme, 1896 -- Tosca, 1900 -- Madama Butterfly, 1904 -- Il Tabarro, 1918 -- Gianni Schicchi, 1918 -- Turandot, 1926 -- Pelleas et Melisande, 1902 -- Cavalleria Rusticana, 1890 -- Der Rosenkavalier, 1911 -- App. A. Catalogue of all operas mentioned in the text and many others ... Pt. 1, Operas with first performances from 1597 through 1939; Pt. 2, Operas with first performances from 1939 through 1959; Pt. 3, The operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini listed in order of production -- App. B. Basic operatic Italian. Other authors:  Kinstler, Everett Raymond. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 782.1 M381o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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