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Requiem for a Mezzo: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 395min
With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva's vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries; among them a smugly philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass, and even her own vocal coach husband, with whom she shared a hardly harmonious marriage. Did one of them fatally poison the acclaimed mezzo? Or is someone else determined to see that Daisy's investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettina's fateful last performance? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bernadette Dunne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/001616/bk_blak_001616_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Score!: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1599min
Sir Robert Rannaldini, the most successful but detested conductor in the world, had two ambitions: to seduce his ravishing 19-year-old stepdaughter, Tabitha Campbell-Black, and to put his mark on musical history by making the definitive film of Verdi's darkest opera, Don Carlos. As Rannaldini, Tristan, his charismatic French director, a volatile cast and bolshy French crew gather at Rannaldini's haunted abbey for filming, it is inevitable that violent feuds, abandoned bonking, temperamental screaming and devious plotting will ensue. But although everyone wished Rannaldini dead, no one actually thought the Maestro would be murdered. Or that after the dreadful deed some very bizarre things would continue to occur. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sherry Baines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/howe/004516/bk_howe_004516_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Nights At The Opera
Nights At The Opera ab 17.49 € als Taschenbuch: Verdi's Il Trovatore (1906). Aus dem Bereich: Musik, Noten & Musiktheorie,- Shop: hugendubel
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Verdi: Rigoletto, Hörbuch, Digital, 79min
Rigoletto is simply wonderful entertainment with superb music. It is also much more - a daring (for its time) attack on aristocratic privilege, a tender love story, and an impassioned appeal on behalf of the disadvantaged, all set to music of such wealth and beauty that, with its sister operas La Traviata and Il Trovatore, it has defined Italian opera for 150 years. Overcoming initial trouble with the censors, Verdi's Rigoletto was a smash hit at its premiere and has not been out of the repertoire since. It’s not hard to see why. From Thomson Smillie’s accessible account, the opera comes alive in this audiobook. David Timson is the perfect exponent of Smillie's vivacious writing, securing a thoroughly entertaining and informative performance. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: David Timson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/naxo/000784/bk_naxo_000784_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Telegraph: 30 Minutes with Jonathan Miller, Hörbuch, Digital, 31min
In the sixth interview in The Telegraph's 30 Minute’s with… audio interview series, Matthew Stadlen talks to Sir Jonathan Miller about his style of directing and updating operas and the significance of "sub-intentional actions". Sir Jonathan also talks about science, comedy, and his time spent with Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Peter Cook in Beyond the Fringe. Sir Jonathan (born 21 July 1934) is a British director of opera, theatre, and film as well as a television presenter, humourist, sculptor, and medical Doctor. He ran the Old Vic Theatre and was an associate director of the Royal National Theatre. His opera productions include his famous Mafia-styled staging of Verdi's Rigoletto. He is today perhaps known as much for being a public intellectual as he is for his directing. Stadlen is an interviewer, broadcaster, and writer. He produced and presented the BBC’s Five Minutes with interview series and the BBC’s documentary series On the Road with.... Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Stadlen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tgrp/000006/bk_tgrp_000006_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Il Trovatore
Il Trovatore was always one of Herbert von Karajan's favourite operas. He conducted it at the very beginning of his career and his first studio recording in 1956 was made in Milan with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, but "his" Trovatore really made its mark in the legendary performances given at the Salzburg Festival in 1962, which formed the basis for this successful revival in Vienna. He once declared in an interview that what he loved about this opera was its archetypal human passions, its compression of highly dramatic situations into the smallest conceivable space and Verdi's genius for translating such situations into music.This 1978 performance is steeped in scandal. Franco Bonisolli was originally cast in the lead role but abandoned the cast during a rehearsal where the public had been admitted entry, and, after throwing his sword at the conductor, left the stage in fury, to be later replaced by Plácido Domingo.What this performance makes so special: Karajan not only conducted the opera, but he was also responsible for the stage direction.- Shop: buecher
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The City of Falling Angels , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 772min
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on The New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice, a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble, foundations shift, marble ornaments fall, even as efforts to preserve them are underway. The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Venice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective, inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city-while gradually revealing the truth about the fire. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holter Graham. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000680/bk_rand_000680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1094min
Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you. Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover. It is a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook for learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera, who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the elements that make up opera. The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of 11 key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca to works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, and to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedented detail and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Plotkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000789/bk_blak_000789_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The City of Falling Angels, Hörbuch, Digital, 345min
It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times best seller list. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46 percent.It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice - a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. Venice, a city steeped in 1,000 years of history, art, and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Its architectural treasures crumble - foundations shift, marble ornaments fall - even as efforts to preserve them are underway.The City of Falling Angels opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians. Arriving in Venice three days after the fire, Berendt becomes a kind of detective - inquiring into the nature of life in this remarkable museum-city - while gradually revealing the truth about the fire.In the course of his investigations, Berendt introduces us to a rich cast of characters: a prominent Venetian poet whose shocking "suicide" prompts his skeptical friends to pursue a murder suspect on their own; the First Family of American expatriates who lose possession of the family palace after four generations of ownership; an organization of high-society, party-going Americans who raise money to preserve the art and architecture of Venice, while quarreling in public among themselves, questioning each other's motives and drawing startled Venetians into the fray; a contemporary Venetian surrealist painter and outrageous provocateur; the master glassblower of Venice; and numerous others - stool-pigeons, sca Language: English. Narrator: John Berendt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000681/bk_rand_000681_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Song for Bellafortuna , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 510min
A Song for Bellafortuna is a spellbinding, historical fiction novel of a young man's desire to free his Sicilian village from the domination of one family's long reign. For years, the beautiful, yet secluded, hilltop village of Bellafortuna, Sicily, was a great producer of wine and olive oil. The entire village prospered. However, after the arrival of the Vasaio family, production dwindles and the villagers soon find themselves in crushing debt to the Vasaios. Only one family in the village remains outside the control of the Vasaios, but the reason haunts Antonio Sanguinetti every day of his life. Antonio is determined to erase this legacy by offering financial and emotional support to his fellow villagers. He introduces them to the choral song from Verdi's opera, Nabucco, which becomes the rallying cry for the villagers and offers them hope for a better life. When Antonio's only son, Giuseppe, discovers his family's past, he becomes determined to take on the Vasaios and remove them from power. Led by the young Giuseppe, a plan is hatched that could result in either complete freedom for the villagers, or if it fails, forever solidifying the Vasaios' control. Find out what happens in A Song for Bellafortuna, a sweeping epic tale of love, drama, sacrifice, and redemption, set among the beautiful landscape of Sicily. The novel has been called lyrical, intelligent, majestic, magical, powerful and compelling. Award winning and best-selling author, Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco, lives in New Orleans. His first novel, Tempesta's Dream - A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera, became an Amazon best-selling novel and was awarded the 2014 Pinnacle Achievement Award in Historical Fiction. Amazon also has named his book as a Top Rated Novel in Italian Historical Fiction. His most recent novel, A Song for Bellafortuna, was shortlisted in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Writing Competition ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bob Neufeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/036288/bk_acx0_036288_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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