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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 974min
The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Through a deft compilation of primary sources—letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers—Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation. Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis, Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composer’s life and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colorful personalities involved are seen to discuss, comment, and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Otello; and Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pellas et Mlisande. Throughout, Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth, and in so doing he captures the bizarre interactions of chance, genius, practical necessity, and dogged determination that accompanied the making of some of opera’s most enduring masterpieces. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Derek Perkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012356/bk_adbl_012356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Got the Show Right Here: The Amazing, True Story of How an Obscure Brooklyn Horn Player Became the Last Great Broadway Showman , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 400min
Guys & Dolls...The Boyfriend...How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...Can-Can... These are just a few of the many Broadway shows produced by the legendary Cy Feuer, who, in partnership with the late Ernest H. Martin, brought to life many of America's most enduring musicals. Cy Feuer was at the center of these creations, as well as the films based on two of Broadway's most exceptional musicals, Cabaret and A Chorus Line. He was the man in charge, the one responsible for putting everything together, and - almost more important - for holding it together. Now, at age 92, as Cy Feuer looks back on the remarkable career he had on Broadway and in Hollywood, the stories he has to tell of the people he worked with are fabulously rich and entertaining. There's Bob Fosse, a perfectionist with whom Feuer did battle over the filming of the movie Cabaret. There's Frank Loesser, the brilliant and explosive composer of Guys & Dolls, Where's Charley?, and How to Succeed... There's Liza Minnelli, star of both the movie Cabaret and the Broadway musical The Act, whose offstage activities threatened to disrupt the show. There's the contentious George S. Kaufman, the librettist and director whose ego was almost as great as his talent. Add to the list such glamorous figures as Cole Porter, Julie Andrews, Abe Burrows, Gwen Verdon, John Steinbeck, Martin Scorsese, and George Balanchine, and you have a sense of the unbeatable cast of characters who populate this fabulous story of a young trumpet player from Brooklyn who became musical director for the Republic Pictures film studio, then feverishly tackled Broadway, back when "putting on a show" did not require the support of major corporations, and when dreams of overnight success really did have a chance of coming true. Funny, witty, and immensely entertaining, I Got the Show Right Here is a treat for anyone who loves show bus ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013053/bk_adbl_013053_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Great Masters: Mozart - His Life and Music, Hörbuch, Digital, 370min
Even from the perspective of time, it is nearly impossible to grasp the full contribution made to music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his brief and glorious life. He composed his first symphony at the age of 8 and reached full artistic maturity by the time he was only 20. And when he died at the age of 35, he left a legacy of more than 600 works of brilliance - symphonies, chamber music, operas, and more - most composed during an incredibly productive 20-year period. But even though it can well take a lifetime to fully grasp the achievement of the man described by Rossini as "the only composer who had as much knowledge as genius and as much genius as knowledge", every step of that journey toward understanding will be a joy - one you can begin with this fascinating eight-lecture series, which can serve as both a stand-alone introduction to this extraordinary composer or as the gateway to a lifetime of appreciation and pleasure. Beginning with an examination of the many myths that surround Mozart to this day, Professor Greenberg offers not only an understanding of his music, but also a realistic view of Mozart the boy and man, from his emergence as youthful prodigy to his posthumous deification.You'll learn about his difficult and ultimately doomed relationship with his father, his troubled marriage, his relationships with luminaries like Haydn, Emperor Joseph II, and his operatic librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, and the triumphs and disappointments that marked his career - including the astonishing and inexplicable creative recovery that enabled him to create his great Masonic opera, The Magic Flute, only months before his death. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Greenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000122/bk_tcco_000122_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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M/F , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 442min
'The situation as far as I'm concerned', says the young narrator-hero of M/F, 'is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country I've acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. I've spent some hours in prison, I've discovered the works of an unknown superlative artist in a garden shed and I've been shot at by a riddling lion-faced expert on Bishop Berkeley. Most interesting of all I'm due tonight to be married by a circus clown to my own sister.' Almost 21, a college throw-out, Miles Faber embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean. His destination: the shrine of Sib Legeru, Castitian poet and painter. In the streets of Castita's capital, gay with a religious festival, a series of bizarre revelations awaits him - his own double (the foul-mouthed son of a circus sorceress) and a plump sister he had never met before. Unspeakable crimes of blood and lust are perpetrated against both before Miles, solving the final riddle, wakes - like Oedipus - to find himself a willing victim of the machinations of dynastic destiny. MF is an outrageous entertainment, full of humour and invention. Anthony Burgess (25th February 1917 - 22nd November 1993) was one of the UK's leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist, and educationalist. His fiction includes Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life, but he is perhaps most famous for the complex and controversial novel A Clockwork Orange, exploring the nature of evil. Born in Manchester, he spent time living in Southeast Asia, the USA, and Mediterranean Europe, as well as in England, until his death in 1993. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jack Hawkins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020643/bk_adbl_020643_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte - Mozarts Librettist und sein Aufbruch in die Neue Welt: ab 9.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Das Rechtsverhältnis zwischen Komponist und Librettist
Das Rechtsverhältnis zwischen Komponist und Librettist - Eine urheberrechtliche Studie: ab 109.95 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Davidis Pugna Et Victoria
Alessandro De Marchi (Dir) // Scarlatti's work tells the dramatic story of David and Goliath. Whilst the biblical account relays the story in a few sentences, the anonymous librettist of Davidis pugna et victoria expands upon these to create an extensive libretto, with the characters fully developed and explored. Scarlatti's musical response to the libretto demonstrates his gift for characterization, which acts as a commentary on the unfolding narrative.- Shop: odax
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Samson
Händel komponierte sein Oratorium Samson 1741 unmittelbar nach der Fertigstellung von "The Messiah". Schon frühzeitig wurde es von zeitgenössischen Kennern hoch gelobt und von manchen sogar über den Messias gestellt. Die vergleichsweise geringere Popularität heutzutage gründet sich wohl in dem Umstand, dass es weder ein Chor-Oratorium wie Israel in Egypt ist noch ein dramatisches Oratorium wie z.B. Semele. Vielmehr schufen Händel und sein Librettist ein Seelen-Drama, in dem sich die Konflikte nicht zwischen den Protagonisten abspielen, sondern in der Person des Titelhelden selbst. Dieses expressive Seelendrama hat Händel allerdings mit großartiger Musik darzustellen gewusst, die das Werk zweifellos zu einem seiner größten Meisterwerke machen.- Shop: odax
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Angel's Bone
opera-theatre by composer Du Yun and librettist Royce Vavrek- Shop: odax
- Price: 15.97 EUR excl. shipping
