Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. …”
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Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music / by McClary, Susan

Table of Contents: “…The music of pleasure and desire -- The expansion principle -- Composites, or the still-divided subject -- Soprano as fetish : professional singers in Early Modern Italy -- Gender ambiguities and erotic excess in the operas of Cavalli -- Libidinous theology -- Straining belief : the toccata -- The social history of a groove : chacona, ciaccona, chaconne, and the Chaconne -- Dancing about power, architecture about dancing -- Temporality and ideology : qualities of motion in seventeenth-century French music -- The dragon cart : the femme fatale in seventeenth-century French opera -- Toward consolidation.…”

Popular opera in eighteenth-century France : music and entertainment before the Revolution / by Charlton, David, 1946-

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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Fulcher -- Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cultural role in the 1920s / Jane F. …”
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The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”
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The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”

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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Domo ni Karmen/

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Carmen / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Faust / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Samson and Delilah / by Fisher, Burton D.

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This month in history : a compilation of music-related events that occured in March /

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Werther / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Manon / by Fisher, Burton D.

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The tales of Hoffmann = Les contes d'Hoffmann / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France / by Bloechl, Olivia Ashley

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German opera : from the beginnings to Wagner / by Warrack, John, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Sixteenth-century beginings -- 2 The Thirty Years War and its aftermath -- 3 The Hamburg enterprise -- 4 Travelling troupes and changing attitudes -- 5 From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution -- 6 The Viennese Singspiel -- 7 Mozart's German operas -- 8 From the French Revolution to the turn of the century -- 9 French opera in Germany after the Revolution -- 10 New critics and singers -- 11 Opera in a new century: the first decade (1).…”
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Carmen / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Samson and Delilah / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Ghost stories of Old New Orleans / by DeLavigne, Jeanne

Table of Contents: “…Foreword : Jeanne deLavigne and Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans -- Author's Note -- The Singing Capuchin -- The Mystery of Madame Vaquer -- The Golden Brown Woman -- The Soldiers Who Could Not Die -- The Specter on the Shell Road -- Le Néant -- The Ghost of the Headless Woman -- Between Worlds -- Up from the Sea -- The Gay Caballeros -- Walking Otto -- Tears of Heaven -- The Devil's Mansion -- The Whispering Hands -- The Magic of Aga Bab -- The Return of Esposito -- The Ghost of the German Countess -- The Witch of the French Opera -- The Ghosts of Carrollton Jail -- The Flaming Tomb -- The Ghosts of Shiloh -- The Lady of the Door -- The Swirling Specter -- The Ghost of the Treme Street Bridge -- The Beautiful Lost Children -- The Golden Witch -- Up the Garret Stairs -- The Haunted House of the Rue Royale -- The Ghost of Love -- The Fountain Woman -- Warring Wraiths -- The Haunted Spanish Barracks -- The Red-Headed Ghost of Parish Prison -- The White Skiff -- The Mansion That Ghosts Carried Away -- The Twin Green Spirits -- The Lost Pearl -- The White Althea Tree -- Golden Slippers -- The Swamp Witch.…”
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