Designed as a resource for opera lovers, opera professionals, and music students, this book provides a guide to Saint-Saens's twelve operas and a variety of other stage works for those who are curious to know more. It will enhance listeners' experience of recordings of Saint-Saens, which are enjoying increased popularity as his centenary approaches.
Cambridge Studies in Opera Reeks
Deze serie onderzoekt de veelzijdige wereld van opera en de brede culturele betekenis ervan in de hedendaagse samenleving. Het omarmt een breed scala aan wetenschappelijke methodologieën, van musicologische analyses van componisten en werken tot de toepassing van kritische theorieën uit andere geesteswetenschappelijke disciplines. Het dient als een essentieel forum voor huidig onderzoek en biedt nieuwe perspectieven op deze evoluerende kunstvorm.
Sentimental Opera
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Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.
The Rival Sirens
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This new approach to the operas of Handel examines the vital and intertwined roles of singers, audiences and local cultural context in creating eighteenth- century opera. It emphasises cultural context and aspects of performance, offering a range of interpretative tools not previously exploited in studies of the century's opera before Mozart.
Verdi, Opera, Women
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Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in nineteenth-century Italy.
Boyd-Bennett investigates the relationship of music and politics in the aftermath of war and dictatorship. Bringing locality into the study of twentieth-century music by focussing on the Italian and Venetian contexts, she shows how music culture was deeply imbedded in the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the post-war period.