Deviant opera sex, power, and perversion on stage by Englund, Axel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : staging deviance -- Opera and sadomasochism -- Sex in excess : Rinaldo, Alcina, and the contemporary baroque -- Schools of Libertinage : Don Giovanni with Sade -- In-house allegories : enactment and actuality in Parsifal and Tosca -- More or less human : Wozzeck, Lulu, and the Soprano conductor -- Epilogue : the actuality effect and the quest for authenticity…”
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Opera for everyone : The Industry's experiments with American opera in the digital age / by Steigerwald Ille, Megan, 1987-

Subjects: “…Industry (Opera company) History 21st century.…”
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Opera at the bandstand : then and now / by Martin, George Whitney

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Grand opera : the story of the Met / by Affron, Charles, Affron, Mirella Jona, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : bel canto -- Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque -- Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera -- In the age of new media, 2006-2013.…”
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Opera acts : singers and performance in the late nineteenth century / by Henson, Karen, 1972-

Subjects: “…Opera 19th century.…”
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The politics of opera : a history from Monteverdi to Mozart / by Cohen, Mitchell, 1952-

Subjects: “…Opera Political aspects History.…”
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The Gilded Stage / by Snowman, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Cover; THE GILDED STAGE; Also by Daniel Snowman; Copyright; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Down the Road from Arianna to Zauberflöte c.1600-1800; 1. The Birth of Italian Opera; 2. The Opera Business, Italian Style; 3. Opera Crosses the Alps -- and the Channel; 4. …”
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Fandom, authenticity, and opera : mad acts and letter scenes in fin-de-siècle Russia / by Fishzon, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Entrepreneurs and the Public Mission of Russian Private Opera -- 2. Russia's New Celebrities: Off-stage Narrative and Performance -- 3. …”
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Opera in the Media Age : Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Business of Opera: Opera, Advertising and the Return to Popular Culture (Paul Fryer) -- Making Culture Popular: Opera and the Media Industries (Sam O'Connell) -- Opera Criticism: State of the Art and Beyond (Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe) -- Gods and Heroes or Monsters of the Media? …”
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Opera and Ideology in Prague : Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 / by Locke, Brian S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / by Johnson, Eugene J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519 -- Rome 1480's-1520 -- Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto -- Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena -- Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte -- Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio -- Drama-tourney theaters -- Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti -- Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house -- Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera -- Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.…”
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Opera and ideology in Prague / by Locke, Brian S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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The evolution of opera theatre in the Middle East and North Africa / by Petrocelli, Paolo, 1984-

Subjects: “…Opera Middle East History.…”
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Operatic geographies : the place of opera and the opera house /

Table of Contents: “…Opera and the (urban) geography of culture /…”
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Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France / by Bloechl, Olivia Ashley

Table of Contents: “…A Theater of Precarity; Appendix. Operas and Ballets Cited; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Operatic geographies : the place of opera and the opera house /

Table of Contents: “…Opera and the (urban) geography of culture /…”
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Russian opera and the Symbolist movement / by Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Decadence : Tchaikovsky at the edge -- Interlude : Symbolism's Nutcracker -- Syncretism : Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky -- Interlude : Klara Milich -- Theurgy : Scriabin and the impossible -- Interlude : another church musician writes an opera -- Mimesis : Prokofiev's demons -- Conclusion.…”
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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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Die Opera buffa in Europa : Verbreitungs- und Transformationsprozesse einer neuen Gattung (1740-1765) / by Zedler, Andrea, Hoven, Lena van der, Knaus, Kordula

Table of Contents: “…2 Die europäische Verbreitung der Opera buffa im Überblick --…”
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The political in Rimsky-Korsakov's operas / by Nelson, John (Musicologist)

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