Cather and opera / by Powell, David McKay

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Cather and opera / by Powell, David McKay

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 1 Cather and Opera -- CHAPTER 2 Wagner and Church Choirs: Opera in America in Cather's Time -- CHAPTER 3 Rustic Chivalry: Opera in Cather's Early Fiction -- CHAPTER 4 Cather and Her Artists: Evolving Short Fiction -- CHAPTER 5 Entr'acte: Alexander's Bridge -- CHAPTER 6 Prose Operas: O Pioneers! …”
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Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / by Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…A prologue on genre -- Pamela goes to the opera -- The emergence of bourgeois drama -- The codification of bourgeois drama -- Opera as drame -- Sensibility and the moral cure -- A sentimental opera -- Sentimental, anti-sentimental -- Avenues.…”

Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 / by Goldman, Andrea S.

Table of Contents: “…Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas…”
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Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / by Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…TableauxDiderotians; Mixed, median, monstrous; 4 Opera as drame; Mercier the dramaturge; On 'drame' and the use of words; Two déserteurs, or virtue rewarded and virtue chastised; Three Venetian disertori; 5 Sensibility and the moral cure; Sentiment and sensibility; In the labyrinth of the 'folles par amour'; Moral cure and absorption; A salon, a lodge, a circle; 6 A sentimental opera; An epoch-making experiment; A Utopian fantasy; Sentimental settings; To listen for the sentiment; 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental; A perpetual interplay; Figaro's family; Society and its discontents; Dissonances.…”
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Chinese opera : images and stories / by Siu, Wang-Ngai, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Dynasties of China -- Note on Romanization -- 1 The Dramatic Tradition -- 2 Regional Opera Styles -- 3 Conventions -- 4 Heavenly Beings -- 5 Emperors and Their Ladies -- 6 Generals and Warriors -- 7 Scholars and Officials -- 8 Wealthy Families -- 9 Common Folk: Those Who Are Ruled -- 10 The Religious -- 11 Outlaws -- 12 Ghosts -- 13 A Final Word -- Appendix A: English Guide to Photographs -- Appendix B: Chinese Guide to Photographs -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F…”
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Brecht at the opera / by Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965-

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At the origins of classical opera : Carlo Goldoni and the "dramma giocoso per musica" / by Rista, Pervinca

Table of Contents: “…The other Goldoni -- The foundations of musical comedy -- New directions -- A new source for classical opera: Goldoni's drammi giocosi -- How comedy changed opera -- Goldoni's musical legacy.…”
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The survival of soap opera : transformations for a new media era /

Table of Contents: “…Lee Harrington -- Perspective : scholars Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata on the state of U.S. soap operas / based on an interview by C. Lee Harrington -- Perspective : historian William J. …”
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The operas of Sergei Prokofiev / by Guillaumier, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration, abbreviations and sources -- Introduction: Prokofiev and Opera -- 1 Early Operatic Experiments and Maddalena -- 2 Between Opera and Theatre: Radicalisation of Style in The Gambler -- 3 A Successful Enterprise: Love for Three Oranges -- 4 The Devil Within: Theatre and Spectacle in The Fiery Angel -- 5 Towards a Soviet Operatic Style: Semyon Kotko -- 6 Betrothal in a Monastery and the Retreat from Ideology -- 7 War and Peace: The Prokofievan Operatic Ideal?…”
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The rise of Cantonese opera / by Ng, Wing Chung, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Formation of Cantonese opera in South China. Itinerant actors and red boats in the Pearl River Delta ; Urbanization of Cantonese opera ; Urban theater and its modern crisis -- Popular theater and the state. …”

The soul of Beijing opera : theatrical creativity and continuity in the changing world / by Li, Ruru

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The rise of Cantonese opera / by Ng, Wing Chung, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Formation of Cantonese opera in South China. Itinerant actors and red boats in the Pearl River Delta ; Urbanization of Cantonese opera ; Urban theater and its modern crisis -- Popular theater and the state. …”
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When Opera Meets Film. by Citron, Marcia J.

Table of Contents: “…Operatic style in Coppola's Godfather trilogy -- 2. Opera as fragment : 'Liebestod' and 'Nessun dorma' in Aria -- Part II. …”
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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera / by Rice, John A.

Table of Contents: “…From Venice to Vienna -- Opera in Vienna, 1766-76 : theaters, management, personnel -- Goldonian opera buffa in Vienna before Salieri -- Constructing Le donne letterate -- Youthful exploration and experiment -- Three Goldonian comedies -- Joseph II and the end of the impresarial decade -- Italy, 1778-80 -- Joseph's Singspiel troupe and Der Rauchfangkehrer -- Les Danaïdes -- Joseph's Italian troupe and the renewal of Viennese opera buffa -- Between Paris and Vienna : Tarare and Axur re d'Ormus -- Da Ponte, Ferrarese and Hofkapellmeister Salieri -- Mozart and Salieri -- Leopold II, Tomeoni and the triumph of Neapolitan opera buffa -- Withdrawal and reemergence, 1792-96 -- Salieri's last operas and the end of Viennese Italian opera -- Appendix : A chronological list of Salieri's operas.…”
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Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi : Ordinis primi tomus primus. by Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536, Kumaniecki, K., Mynors, R. A. B. 1903-1989, Robinson, C., Waszink, J. H.

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The Opera Stage of Sarah Caldwell : A Directing Philosophy in Practice. by Bendikas, Kristina

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- The company -- The repertoire -- Preparation and rehearsal -- Spaces -- Experiments -- Final years -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : the conductor -- Appendix B : operas staged by Caldwell.…”
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Verdi and the art of Italian opera : conventions and creativity / by Huebner, Steven

Subjects: “…Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas.…”
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Inscribing Jingju/Peking opera : textualization and performance, authorship and censorship of the "national drama" of China from the late Qing to the present / by Rolston, David L., 1952-

Subjects: “…Operas, Chinese China Beijing History and criticism.…”
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Chinese street opera in Singapore / by Lee, Tong Soon, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Chinese opera in Singapore, 1840s-1960s -- Chinese street opera and professional opera troupes -- Amateur Chinese opera and Confucianism -- Reinstating patronage and tradition: Chinese temples and the revival of Chinese street opera -- Tourism and cultural authenticity in Chinese opera -- Chinese opera and the concept of culture in Singapore.…”
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