Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable : the Premier Opéra Romantique. by Letellier, Robert Ignatius

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Verdi / by Budden, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Stiffelio, Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata ; Towards grand opera. Les vêpres siciliennes, Simon Boccanegra, Aroldo, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos, Aida ; The final masterpieces. …”
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Screen writings : scripts and texts by independent filmmakers /

Table of Contents: “…"Respect your flag ..." -- from Grand Opera. Script for "New York 1980" -- Michael Snow. …”
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The great singers : from Jenny Lind to Callas and Pavarotti / by Pleasants, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Part two: the age of grand opera. A new kind of prima donna : Giuditta Pasta ; Maria Malibran ; Wilhelmine Schroder-Devrient -- A new kind of tenor : Domenico Donzelli ; Adolphe Nourrit ; Gilbert-Louis Duprez ; Enrico Tamberlik ; Joseph Tichatschek -- The great quartet : Giulia Grisi ; Mario ; Antonio Tamburini and Luigi Lablache -- The nightingales : Henriette Sontag ; Jenny Lind ; Adelina Patti -- The mezzo minority : Benedetta Pisaroni ; Pauline Viardot ; Marietta Alboni -- The new German singer : Ludwig Schnorr ; Lilli Lehmann -- Some gentlemen of the last "Golden Age" : Victor Maurel ; Francesco Tamagno ; Jean de Reszke -- Some ladies of the last "Golden Age" : Lillian Nordica ; Nellie Melba ; Marcella Sembrich and Emma Eames ; Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- The Italianete afterglow : Titta Ruffo ; Luis Tetrazzini and Amelita Galli-Curci ; Enrico Caruso ; Rose Ponselle -- The singing actresses : Emma Calvé ; Mary Garden ; Geraldine Farrar -- Some gentlemen who stand apart : Feodor Chaliapin ; John McCormack ; Richard Tauber ; Lawrence Tibbett -- And two ladies : Marian Anderson ; Kirsten Flagstad -- Cadenza -- Coda…”

Masters of the folk violin.

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Gozo : one island, two opera houses /

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The culture wars of the late Renaissance : skeptics, libertines, and opera / by Muir, Edward, 1946-

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Varmints and victims : predator control in the American West / by Van Nuys, Frank, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. â#x80;#x9C;The Wolves We Saw Them Everywhereâ#x80;#x9D;; 2. â#x80;#x9C;Constant Warfare Waged against Themâ#x80;#x9D;; 3. â#x80;#x9C;Economically Injurious Species of the Faunaâ#x80;#x9D;; 4. â#x80;#x9C;Biologically Unsound and Exceedingly Dangerousâ#x80;#x9D;; 5. â#x80;#x9C;The Fundamental Naturalness of Predationâ#x80;#x9D;; 6. â#x80;#x9C;The Grand Opera of Primitive Natureâ#x80;#x9D;; 7. â#x80;#x9C;A Splendid Game Animalâ#x80;#x9D;; Epilogue: â#x80;#x9C;Itâ#x80;#x99;s Nice to Have Them Aroundâ#x80;#x9D;; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; Back Cover…”
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A short history of opera / by Grout, Donald Jay, Williams, Hermine Weigel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth-century Italian opera in German-speaking lands -- Early German opera -- Opera in France from Lully to Charpentier -- Opera in England -- Masters of the early eighteenth century -- Opera seria : general characteristics -- Opera seria : the composers -- The operas of Gluck -- The comic opera of the eighteenth century -- The operas of Mozart and his Viennese contemporaries -- The turn of the [nineteenth] century -- Grand opera -- Opéra comique, operetta, and lyric opera -- Italian opera of the primo ottacento : Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and their contemporaries -- The romantic opera in Germany -- The operas of Wagner -- The later nineteenth century : France, Italy, Germany, and Austria -- National traditions of opera -- Introduction [to opera of the twentieth century] ; Opera in France and Italy -- Opera in the German-speaking countries -- National opera in Russia and neighboring countries; central and eastern Europe; Greece and Turkey; the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland; Spain, Portugal, and Latin America -- Opera in the British Isles, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- Opera in the United States -- Appendix : Chinese opera (Xiqu).…”
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De Nederlandse Opera presenets Les Vêpres siciliennes: opera in five acts / by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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Let's go to the Grand! : 100 years of entertainment at London's Grand Theatre / by Johnston, Sheila M. F.

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Art and ideology in European opera : essays in honour of Julian Rushton /

Table of Contents: “…"Studying a little of the French air" : Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the dramatic operas of Henry Purcell / Bryan White ; Mendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho : an unfulfilled vision for German opera / Clive Brown ; Funding grand opera in regional France : ideologies of the mid-nineteenth century / Katharine Ellis ; Stanford's and Le Fanu's Shamus O'Brien : Protestant constructions of Irish nationalism in late Victorian England / David Cooper ; Janáček, Nejedlý and the future of Czech national opera / John Tyrrell ; "As for opera I am bewildered" : Gustav Holst on the fringe of European opera / Richard Greene -- II. …”
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Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination /

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Early stages : theatre in Ontario, 1800-1914 /

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Life of Rossini, by Stendhal, 1783-1842

Table of Contents: “…Of the quality of admiration in France, or An essay concerning grand opera -- 25. Of the two enthusiasts -- 26. Mose in Egitto -- 27. …”

The Castrato and his wife / by Berry, Helen

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Art and ideology in European opera : essays in honour of Julian Rushton /

Table of Contents: “…"Studying a little of the French air" : Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the dramatic operas of Henry Purcell / Bryan White ; Mendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho : an unfulfilled vision for German opera / Clive Brown ; Funding grand opera in regional France : ideologies of the mid-nineteenth century / Katharine Ellis ; Stanford's and Le Fanu's Shamus O'Brien : Protestant constructions of Irish nationalism in late Victorian England / David Cooper ; Janáček, Nejedlý and the future of Czech national opera / John Tyrrell ; "As for opera I am bewildered" : Gustav Holst on the fringe of European opera / Richard Greene -- II. …”
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Meyerbeer's Le Prophete : a parable of politics, faith and transcendence / by Letellier, Robert Ignatius

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George Frederick Bristow / by Preston, Katherine K.

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The spirit of this place : how music illuminates the human spirit / by Summers, Patrick

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