Women opera composers : biographies from the 1500s to the 21st century / by McVicker, Mary Frech

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Giovanni Paisiello, his life as an opera composer / by Hunt, Jno Leland

Das Rheingold / by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883

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Marco Polo : opera within an opera / by Tan, Dun, 1957-

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Michael Bohnen at the metropolitan opera /

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Great arias from Russian opera / by Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich, 1833-1887

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Ariane, ou, Le mariage de Bacchus : opera / by Grabu, Louis, d. 1694

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Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States /

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Omaggio a Verdi e Bellini / by Clementi, Aldo, 1925-2011, Danceanu, Liviu, 1954-, Fellegara, Vittorio, 1927-2011

Table of Contents: “…Ad Memoriam / composed by Maurizio Ferrari -- Cadenza / composed by Massimo Lauricella, 1961- -- Preludio avanti l'opera / composed by Alessandro Melchiorre, 1951- -- Metamorfosi di Violetta / composed by Ennio Morricone, 1928- -- MIDI Laus IV / composed by Riccardo Piacentini, 1958- -- Beverdillini, Op. 84 / composed by Liviu Danceanu, 1954- -- Il filo d'oro / composed by Alessandro Solbiati, 1956- -- Aside-For Cornelius Cardew / composed by Nicola Sani, 1961-.…”
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Broadway - Montréal /

Table of Contents: “…Le Fantôme De l'Opéra / composed by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber -- La Musique De La Nuit / composed by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber -- Finir Le Chapeau / composed by Stephen Sondheim -- Le Vaisseau D'or / composed by Erik Satie -- Méchant Amour / composed by Henk Badings -- The Kiss Of The Spider Woman / composed by John Kander -- I Got Life / composed by Galt MacDermot -- Why God Why? …”
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The Mellen opera reference index / by Parsons, Charles H., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…v. 1-4. Opera composers and their works -- v. 5-6. Opera librettists and their works -- v. 7-8. …”

Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?"…”

Barockstar: George Frideric Handel /

Table of Contents: “…George Frideric Handel - Superstar -- Handel in Halle -- Organ Lessons with Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow -- Opera Composer -- Journey to Italy -- Interpretation of Handel's Music -- Historical Locations: Vignanello and Vallerano -- Arrival in Rome -- Patron Ruspoli and Handel's Expenses -- A Big Hit -- Venice - City of Opera -- A Sensation: Agrippina -- First Hanover, Then London -- Italian Operas in London -- English Patrons -- The Handel House in Brook Street -- Royal Academy of Music -- Handel's Modernity -- Changes in the History of Music -- Handel's Messiah -- 'He Was a Very Good Christian' -- A Star of the Baroque Period -- Credits -- Bonus: The Organ of Vallerano - Interview tih Massimo Furnicola -- Bonus: Messiah - Interviews with Howard Arman, Christopher Hogwood, Donald Burrows -- Bonus: Handel and Ruspoli - Interview with Principessa Claudia Ruspoli -- Bonus: Handel and Hendrix - Interviews with Donald Burrows and Martin Wyatt -- Bonus: The Marriage of Handel's Parents - Interview with Bernd Hofestädt.…”
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The Cambridge companion to Shostakovich /

Table of Contents: “…Shostakovich and the theatre / Gerard McBurney ; Shostakovich as opera composer / Rosamund Bartlett ; Shostakovich's ballets / Marina Ilichova ; Screen dramas : Shostakovich's cinema career / John Riley -- Vocal and choral works. …”

Puccini in context /

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Prokofiev's Soviet operas / by Seinen, Nathan

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Memoirs of Rossini : By the Author of the Lives of Haydn and Mozart / by Stendhal

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Driven into paradise : the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States /

Table of Contents: “…Kowalke -- A Viennese opera composer in Hollywood : Korngold's double exile in America / Bryan Gilliam -- Strangers in strangers' land : Werfel, Weill, and the Eternal road / Alexander L. …”
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Richard Wagner : self-promotion and the making of a brand / by Vazsonyi, Nicholas, 1963-

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