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1. Vivaldi, 'Motezuma' and the Opera Seria: Essays on a Newly Discovered Work and Its Background
by Michael Talbot (Editor)
Great was the interest among Vivaldians and opera-lovers when a score of a large portion of Vivaldi's lost opera Motezuma (1733) was unexpectedly ... More
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2. Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera
by Fabrizio Della Seta, Mark Weir (Translator)
Originally published in Italian as: ."..Non senza pazzia": prospettive sul teatro musicale. Rome: Carocci editore, 2008.
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5. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
by William James Henderson
A striking book on the seed whence Grand Opera sprang, by the brilliant musical critic of the New York Sun, who already has an international ... More
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6. Singers of Italian Opera: The History of a Profession
by John Rosselli
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in the 19th century. She earned nearly $5000 a night and had her own railway car. Yet during the ... More
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7. Essays On The Montemezzi-D'Annunzio Nave
by David Chandler (Editor), Monica Cuneo (Translator), Duane D Printz (Foreword by)
This lavishly illustrated book, the first in English on Italian composer Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952), is a documentary record of the creation and ... More
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8. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre
by Ellen Rosand
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, ... More
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9. Opera Production and Its Resources
by Lorenzo Bianconi (Editor), Giorgio Pestelli (Editor), Ms. Lydia G Cochrane (Translator)
This lavish volume marks the first time a multi-disciplinary team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic ... More
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10. The Birth of Opera
by F W Sternfeld, Frederick William Sternfeld
Written by a leading musicologist, The Birth of Opera looks at the predecessors and early examples of opera from Poliziano's Orfeo (c. 1480) to ... More
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11. Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: The King's Theatre, Haymarket 1778-1791
by Curtis Price, Judith Milhous, PH.D., Robert D Hume
This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R ... More
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12. Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome: Barberini Patronage Under Urban VIII
It has long been acknowledged that Pope Urban VIII Barberini and his nephews were the greatest artistic patrons of seventeenth-century Rome, but it ... More
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13. Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
by Philip Gossett
Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of ... More
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14. Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
by Hilary Poriss
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice ... More
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15. Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
by Professor Roberta Montemorra Marvin (Editor), Hilary Poriss (Editor)
Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.
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16. Italian Opera Houses and Festivals
by Karyl Charna Lynn
This work recreates the social, political, architectural, and performance histories of each Italian opera house by including eyewitness accounts from ... More
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17. Monteverdi's Musical Theatre
by Professor Tim Carter
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18. Italian Opera
by David Kimbell
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
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20. The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity
by Alexandra Wilson
A study of the reception and contexts of Puccini's music.
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21. Letters Upon the Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera; Addressed to a Friend. by the Late MR John Brown, ...
by John Brown
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More
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22. The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas
by Roger Parker
Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information ... More
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23. Verdi and His Operas
by Stanley Sadie
Illustrated with music examples and halftones, this book also contains a chronology of the operas, and provides a survey of Verdi's life. of photos.
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24. The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915
by Alan Mallach
The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
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25. Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
by Dr. Victoria Johnson (Editor), Jane F Fulcher (Editor), Thomas Ertman (Editor)
A study of opera in Italy and France from the 1600s to the present day.
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