The Italian Opera Singers in Mozart's Vienna. by Link, Dorothea

Table of Contents: “…The Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court Theater -- Classification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing Styles -- Casting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91 -- Nancy Storace : The Italian Company, 1783-84 -- Nancy Storace : The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85 -- Nancy Storace's Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86 -- Nancy Storace's Exuberant Year, 1786-87 -- Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88 -- Luisa Laschi : The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Portents of Change, 1790-91 -- A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92.…”
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Rick Stein's taste of Italian opera /

“…Taste of Italian opera…”
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Divas and scholars : performing Italian opera / by Gossett, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Two kings head North : transforming Italian opera in Scandinavia.…”
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The Baroque Libretto : Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library, U of T. by Pietropaolo, Domenico

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction to the Baroque Libretto -- The Collection -- The Opera Libretto -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio -- Italian Librettos, 1600-1728, in the Thomas Fisher Library -- Appendix I: French Librettos -- Appendix II: English Librettos -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Titles -- Librettists -- Composers -- Cast Members -- Dancers -- Dedicatees -- Performance Venues -- Places of Publication -- Production Personnel.…”
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The Baroque Libretto : Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library, U of T. by Pietropaolo, Domenico

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Introduction to the Baroque Libretto -- The Collection -- The Opera Libretto -- The Music -- Dance in Italian Opera -- The Oratorio -- Italian Librettos, 1600-1728, in the Thomas Fisher Library -- Appendix I: French Librettos -- Appendix II: English Librettos -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Titles -- Librettists -- Composers -- Cast Members -- Dancers -- Dedicatees -- Performance Venues -- Places of Publication -- Production Personnel.…”
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Verdi and the French Aesthetic : Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera. by Giger, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on the musical examples; Introduction; Part I Versification and melodic aesthetics; 1 Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos; 2 French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase; Part II French melody in Verdi's operas; 3 Jerusalem and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas; 4 Les Vêpres siciliennes and its influence on the subsequent Italian operas; 5 Don Carlos and after.…”
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Not without madness : perspectives on opera by Della Seta, Fabrizio

Table of Contents: “…Emotion and action : on the theory of Italian opera ; Ernani : the "Carlo Quinto" act ; "O cieli azzurri" : exoticism and dramatic discourse in Aida ; What "happens" in the act 2 finale of Le nozze di Figaro? …”
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Experiencing Verdi : a listener's companion by Sanders, Donald C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Italian opera before Verdi -- The early years : Oberto -- Change of fortune and years in the galleys : Nabucco, Macbeth -- Signora Verdi, new hopes for Italy, and three iconic operas : Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata -- Verdi the statesman : Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlos -- Return to Milan : Aida, Manzoni requiem -- The final masterworks : Otello, Falstaff -- Death of the maestro.…”
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Da Ponte's Oratorio, A Concert for New York

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Israel in Egypt : the horse and his rider by Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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The pursuit of pleasure : gender, space & architecture in Regency London by Rendell, Jane, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Pleasure; Chapter 2: Life in London; Chapter 3: The Clubs of St James's -- Public Patriarchy; Chapter 4: Almack's Assembly Rooms -- Exchanging Property; Chapter 5: The Italian Opera House -- Exchanging Looks; Chapter 6: Life in and out of London; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Da Ponte's oratorio. Giulietta e Romeo : ciel pietoso ciel clemente by Zingarelli, Nicola, 1752-1837

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Da Ponte's oratorio. The creation : graceful consort by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Read, Ernest

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Da Ponte's oratorio. The creation by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Read, Ernest

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A Short History of Opera. by Grout, Donald

Table of Contents: “…ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE TO THE 4TH EDITION; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: Music and Drama to the End of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 1: The Lyric Theater of the Greeks; Chapter 2: Medieval Dramatic Music; Chapter 3: The Immediate Forerunners of Opera; PART 2: The Seventeenth Century; Chapter 4: The Beginnings: Opera in Florence and Mantua; Chapter 5: Other Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Court Operas, Including the First Comic Operas in Florence and Rome; Chapter 6: Italian Opera in the Later Seventeeth Century in Italy.…”
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Da Ponte's oratorio. The creation : in native worth and honour clad by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Read, Ernest

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Messa a quattro voci con diversi istromenti : laudamus te (gloria) by Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Samson : let the bright seraphim by Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Messa a quatro voci con diversi istromenti : qui tollis (gloria) by Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Messa a quattro voci con piu istromenti : domine deus (gloria) by Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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Da Ponte's oratorio. Artaxerxes : overture by Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778

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Racine's Andromaque : absences and displacements

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Hector's Empty Tomb; Andromaque's Absences; Actions and Transactions in Andromaque; Misrecognitions and Misperceptions in Andromaque; Memories, Fantasies, and Realities of Death in Racine's Andromaque; Andromaque or the Desire to Be Loved; Overcoming the Shadow: Andromaque's Ambivalent Triumph; Translating Liminality: Entrances and Exits in Andromaque since 1667; Andromaque Translated: John Crowne's Racine and the Refugee; 'Principessa infelice!' Andromaque in Italian Opera to 1819; Bibliography; Index…”
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The Oratorio : A Documentary with Martin Scorsese

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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 politics of opera in Handel's Britain by McGeary, Thomas, 1948-

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COVID chronicles : true stories from the front lines of COVID-19 by Sacks, Ethan

Rinaldo by Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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Gaetano Donizetti : a research and information guide by Cassaro, James P.

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Opera fanatic

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Performing operas for Mozart : impresarios, singers and troupes by Woodfield, Ian

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The Castrato and His Wife. by Berry, Helen

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Nine seventeenth-century organ transcriptions from the operas of Lully

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The lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725

Table of Contents: “…6From Scaramouche to Harlequin: Dances 'in grotesque characters' on the London Stage7 Music, Magic, and Morality: Stage Reform and the Pastoral Mode; 8Madness 'Free from Vice': Musical Eroticism in the Pastoral World of The Fickle Shepherdess; 9 'Let all be husht': Songs in Praise of Anne Bracegirdle and Arabella Hunt; 10Burning and Stoic Men: Mad Rants and the Performance of Passionate Pain in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee, 1674 to 1678; 11Appreciating Bononcini's Astianatte (1727): An Italian Opera for the London Stage; Part IIIAfterpiece: Comedy, Farce, and Competition; 12 The Right to Write.…”
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Opera and drama in eighteenth-century London : the King's Theatre, Garrick and the business of performance by Woodfield, Ian

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Tosca by Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924

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Ermione by Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868

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Jonathan Swift and the arts by McMinn, Joseph

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Opera and sovereignty : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy by Feldman, Martha

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French opera : a short history by Giroud, Vincent

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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 : adaptations and re-writings

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