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Aidaby Leontyne Price, Leo Dillon, Diane DillonISBN 0152015469 (0-15-201546-9)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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Antonio's Wifeby Jacqueline DejohnISBN 0060745975 (0-06-074597-5)
Softcover, Regan Books
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Aspects of Verdiby George MartinISBN 0396088430 (0-396-08843-0)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aspects of Verdi'Book summary:This collection of original essays ranges widely among the composer's interests and achievements: from his religious views to his skill as a cook, from the politics that galvanized him to the poetry that inspired him, from his earliest compositions to his final masterwork, Falstaff, completed at the age of 80. Drawing on original research and scholarship, this book also contains two of Verdi's early works, never before published in this form; a translated collection of his letters, also heretofore unpublished; the text of the Requiem with indications of Verdi's emphases; and a directory of his operas with sources, casts, theatres, and premiere dates. [via]
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The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Operaby Shahrukh Husain, James MayhewISBN 1902283287 (1-902283-28-7)
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Bel Canto Principles and Practicesby Cornelius L. ReidISBN 0915282011 (0-915282-01-1)
Softcover, Joseph Patelson Music House
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Bluff Your Way in Operaby Peter GammondISBN 185304217X (1-85304-217-X)
Softcover, Ravette Pub Ltd
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Carmen Dogby Carol EmshwillerISBN 1931520089 (1-931520-08-9)
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The Catropolitan Opera: The Centenary Celebration of the Grand Catropolitan Opera Companyby Susan Herbert, Bill MeadowcaneISBN 0821224352 (0-8212-2435-2)
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Cecilia Bartoli : The Passion of Songby Kim Chernin, Renate StendhalISBN 0060186445 (0-06-018644-5)
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The City of Falling Angelsby John BerendtISBN 1594200580 (1-59420-058-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Falling Angels'Book summary:Past Midnight: John Berendt on the Mysteries of Venice
Just as John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was settling into its remarkable four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list, he discovered a new city whose local mysteries and traditions were more than a match for Savannah, whose hothouse eccentricities he had celebrated in the first book. The new city was Venice, and he spent much of the last decade wandering through its canals and palazzos, seeking to understand a place that any native will tell you is easy to visit but hard to know. For travelers to Venice, whether by armchair or vaporetto, he has selected his 10 (actually 11) Books to Read on Venice. And he took the time to answer a few of our questions about his charming new book, The City of Falling Angels: Amazon.com: The lush, cloistered southern city of Savannah was the locale of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Venice, the setting for The City of Falling Angels, is vastly different. Was it the difference itself that drew you to Venice?
John Berendt: Savannah and Venice actually have quite a lot in common. Both are uniquely beautiful. Both are isolated geographically, culturally, and emotionally from the world outside. Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon; Savannah is surrounded by marshes, piney woods, and the ocean. Venetians think of themselves as Venetian first, Italian second; Savannahians rarely even venture forth as far as Atlanta or Charleston. So both cities offer a writer a rich context in which to set a story, and the stories provide readers a means of escape from their own environment into another world.
Amazon.com: I enjoyed your rather declarative author's note: that this is a work of nonfiction, and that you used everyone's real names. In your previous book you did use pseudonyms for some characters and you explained that you took a few small liberties in the service of the larger truth of the story. Why the change this time?
Berendt: When I wrote Midnight I thought I would do a few people the favor of changing their names for the sake of privacy. But when the book came out, several of the pseudonymous characters told me they wished I'd used their real names instead. So this time, no pseudonyms. As for the storytelling liberties I took in writing Midnight, they were minor and did not change the story, but my mention of it in the author's note caused some confusion, with the result that Midnight is sometimes referred to now as a novel, which it most certainly is not. Neither is The City of Falling Angels. In fact, I dispensed with the liberties this time and made it as close to the truth as I could get it.
Amazon.com: In The City of Falling Angels, a number of fascinating people serve as guides to the city, each with a different idea of the true nature of Venice. Who was your favorite?
Berendt: I don't have a favorite, but Count Girolamo Marcello is certainly a memorable, highly quotable commentator. "Everyone in Venice is acting," he told me. "Everyone plays a role, and the role changes. The key to understanding Venetians is rhythm, the rhythm of the lagoon, the water, the tides, the waves. It's like breathing. High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. The tide changes every six hours."
I nodded that I understood.
"How do you see a bridge?" he went on.
"Pardon me?" I asked, "A bridge?"
"Do you see a bridge as an obstacle--as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other? We Venetians do not see bridges as obstacles. To us, bridges are transitions. We go over them very slowly. They are part of the rhythm. They are the links between two parts of a theater, like changes in scenery. Our role changes as we go over bridges. We cross from one reality ... to another reality. From one street ... to another street. From one setting ... to another setting."
Once I had absorbed that notion, Count Marcello continued: "Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, and from the vase onto a glass. Which is the real sunlight? Which is the real reflection? What is true? What is not true? The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change. I can change. You can change. That is the Venice effect."
I was not terribly surprised when he later told me, "Venetians never tell the truth. We mean precisely the opposite of what we say."
Amazon.com: Now that you know Venice well enough to be a guide yourself, what would you say to a visitor looking for insight into the character of the city?
Berendt: Tourists generally shuffle along, on narrow streets so crowded as to be nearly impassable, between the major sights of St. Mark's Square, the Rialto Bridge, and the Accademia Museum. All you have to do is to step off these heavily traveled alleyways, and in a few moments you will find yourself in quiet, much emptier surroundings. This is more like the real Venice. Another thing to do is to go into the wine bars where Venetians stand around drinking and talking. They will very likely be speaking the Venetian dialect, so you won't be able to understand them, but you will get a sampling of the true Venetian ambiance enlivened by the pronounced sing-song rhythm of the language. I'd also suggest stopping someone in the street and asking for directions. Almost invariably, you will be rewarded with a genial smile and the instructions, Sempre diritto, meaning "Straight ahead." This will only leave you more confused, because when you attempt to follow a straight line, you will be confronted by more twists and turns and forks in the road than you thought possible, given the instructions. This is part of what Count Marcello described as "the Venice effect."
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The City of falling angels: a venice storyby John BerendtISBN 1594200610 (1-59420-061-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Just as John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was settling into its remarkable four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list, he discovered a new city whose local mysteries and traditions were more than a match for Savannah, whose hothouse eccentricities he had celebrated in the first book. The new city was Venice, and he spent much of the last decade wandering through its canals and palazzos, seeking to understand a place that any native will tell you is easy to visit but hard to know. For travelers to Venice, whether by armchair or vaporetto, he has selected his 10 (actually 11) Books to Read on Venice. And he took the time to answer a few of our questions about his charming new book, The City of Falling Angels: Amazon.com: The lush, cloistered southern city of Savannah was the locale of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Venice, the setting for The City of Falling Angels, is vastly different. Was it the difference itself that drew you to Venice?
John Berendt: Savannah and Venice actually have quite a lot in common. Both are uniquely beautiful. Both are isolated geographically, culturally, and emotionally from the world outside. Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon; Savannah is surrounded by marshes, piney woods, and the ocean. Venetians think of themselves as Venetian first, Italian second; Savannahians rarely even venture forth as far as Atlanta or Charleston. So both cities offer a writer a rich context in which to set a story, and the stories provide readers a means of escape from their own environment into another world.
Amazon.com: I enjoyed your rather declarative author's note: that this is a work of nonfiction, and that you used everyone's real names. In your previous book you did use pseudonyms for some characters and you explained that you took a few small liberties in the service of the larger truth of the story. Why the change this time?
Berendt: When I wrote Midnight I thought I would do a few people the favor of changing their names for the sake of privacy. But when the book came out, several of the pseudonymous characters told me they wished I'd used their real names instead. So this time, no pseudonyms. As for the storytelling liberties I took in writing Midnight, they were minor and did not change the story, but my mention of it in the author's note caused some confusion, with the result that Midnight is sometimes referred to now as a novel, which it most certainly is not. Neither is The City of Falling Angels. In fact, I dispensed with the liberties this time and made it as close to the truth as I could get it.
Amazon.com: In The City of Falling Angels, a number of fascinating people serve as guides to the city, each with a different idea of the true nature of Venice. Who was your favorite?
Berendt: I don't have a favorite, but Count Girolamo Marcello is certainly a memorable, highly quotable commentator. "Everyone in Venice is acting," he told me. "Everyone plays a role, and the role changes. The key to understanding Venetians is rhythm, the rhythm of the lagoon, the water, the tides, the waves. It's like breathing. High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. The tide changes every six hours."
I nodded that I understood.
"How do you see a bridge?" he went on.
"Pardon me?" I asked, "A bridge?"
"Do you see a bridge as an obstacle--as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other? We Venetians do not see bridges as obstacles. To us, bridges are transitions. We go over them very slowly. They are part of the rhythm. They are the links between two parts of a theater, like changes in scenery. Our role changes as we go over bridges. We cross from one reality ... to another reality. From one street ... to another street. From one setting ... to another setting."
Once I had absorbed that notion, Count Marcello continued: "Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, and from the vase onto a glass. Which is the real sunlight? Which is the real reflection? What is true? What is not true? The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change. I can change. You can change. That is the Venice effect."
I was not terribly surprised when he later told me, "Venetians never tell the truth. We mean precisely the opposite of what we say."
Amazon.com: Now that you know Venice well enough to be a guide yourself, what would you say to a visitor looking for insight into the character of the city?
Berendt: Tourists generally shuffle along, on narrow streets so crowded as to be nearly impassable, between the major sights of St. Mark's Square, the Rialto Bridge, and the Accademia Museum. All you have to do is to step off these heavily traveled alleyways, and in a few moments you will find yourself in quiet, much emptier surroundings. This is more like the real Venice. Another thing to do is to go into the wine bars where Venetians stand around drinking and talking. They will very likely be speaking the Venetian dialect, so you won't be able to understand them, but you will get a sampling of the true Venetian ambiance enlivened by the pronounced sing-song rhythm of the language. I'd also suggest stopping someone in the street and asking for directions. Almost invariably, you will be rewarded with a genial smile and the instructions, Sempre diritto, meaning "Straight ahead." This will only leave you more confused, because when you attempt to follow a straight line, you will be confronted by more twists and turns and forks in the road than you thought possible, given the instructions. This is part of what Count Marcello described as "the Venice effect."
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Death at La Feniceby Donna LeonISBN 006074068X (0-06-074068-X)
Softcover, Dark Alley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death at La Fenice'Book summary:Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies down to one is. As the suave and pithy Brunetti pieces together clues, a shocking picture of depravity and revenge emerges, leaving him torn between what is and what should be right -- and questioning what the law can do, and what needs to be done.
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The Definitive Kobbe's Opera Bookby Gustav Kobbe, Earl of HarewoodISBN 0399131809 (0-399-13180-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: 1791-1839by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN 0838637892 (0-8386-3789-2)
Hardcover, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Last Years 1857-1864by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN 0838638457 (0-8386-3845-7)
Hardcover, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Last Years 1857-1864'Book summary:Volume 4 is devoted to the last years (1857-64); while age and declining health saw a waning of the composer's personal optimism, this was hardly the case artistically speaking. This last volume contains a series of glossaries listing his compositions and the musical and theatrical works he attended throughout his life, as well as a bibliography of the composer, his contemporaries, and the operatic and social milieu of the times. [via]
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The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Years of Celebrity, 1850-1856by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius LetellierISBN 0838638449 (0-8386-3844-9)
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Diva: The New Generation The Sopranos and Mezzos of the Decade Discuss Their Rolesby Helena MatheopoulosISBN 1555533582 (1-55553-358-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Don Giovanni's Progress: A Rake Goes to the Operaby Nino Pirrotta, Harry S. SaundersISBN 0941419940 (0-941419-94-0)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Essays on Operaby Winton DeanISBN 0198163843 (0-19-816384-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Eugene Oneginby Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Charles Hepburn JohnstonISBN 0140448039 (0-14-044803-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satirical vein. Eugene Onegin was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poetic music of the original. [via]
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Eugene Oneginby Douglas R. Hofstadter, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0465020941 (0-465-02094-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eugene Onegin'Book summary:The supreme poet of the Russian language, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin has had a checkered existence in English. His prose, to be sure, has presented his translators with a less formidable set of hurdles. But Pushkin composed his masterpiece, Eugene Onegin, in a 14-line stanza of his own invention, with a slippery rhyme scheme and treacherously foursquare meter (i.e., iambic tetrameter, which tends to sound slightly singsong to English speakers). This has forced most of his translators--from Walter Arndt to James Falen to Charles Johnston--to shortchange form in favor of content. Vladimir Nabokov probably pushed this tendency as far as it could go, transforming Pushkin's poetry into perversely lumpy paragraphs (and enveloping the slim pickings of his translation in a jumbo-sized commentary). But nobody has managed to produce even a halfway-definitive version of Eugene Onegin.
Now Douglas Hofstadter, who's best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach, has taken a shot at it. Certainly he's no stranger to translation theory--his 1997 book, Le Ton Beau de Marot, was a brilliant and unbuttoned meditation on the translator's art, with numerous detours into the hinterlands of cognitive science. Theory and practice are two different matters, however, as Hofstadter is quick to admit: "The thought seemed quite ridiculous: me, with such sparse knowledge of Russian, hoping to clamber up this formidable Everest of translation, a book often said to be next to untranslatable, and square at the center of the inner circle of Russian literature!" Clamber he did, however--and the result is a charming if uneven version of the poem, more beholden to Cole Porter and Ogden Nash than the poet's 19th-century peers. Several of Hofstadter's slangier couplets might have Nabokov spinning in his grave: "Did thus our party boy exhaust / Himself at games, at zero cost?" Still, he manages some of Pushkin's loop-the-loops very nicely:
The air grew warm as days went flying,
Clearly Hofstadter's take on the poem goes heavy on the sizzle and fails to capture much of Pushkin's elegant gravity. Still, it's a welcome addition to the ranks, a handsome present to the poet on the occasion of his 200th birthday--and, rather winningly, a linguistic labor of love. --William Davies [via]
And winter knew to call it quits.
Eugene gave up his versifying,
But not the ghost, and not his wits.
He's lent new life by buds aborning,
And first thing on some clear spring morning
He leaves his cloistered, small château
Where, marmot-like, he'd braved the snow.
Eugene Oneginby James E. Falen, Aleksandr Sergeevich PushkinISBN 0192824910 (0-19-282491-0)
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Exotic And Irrational: Opera in Denver-1879-2006by Allen YoungISBN 0974959782 (0-9749597-8-2)
Softcover, Pilgrims Process Inc
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Fromental Halevy: His Life & Music, 1799-1862by Ruth JordanISBN 187108251X (1-871082-51-X)
Hardcover, Kahn & Averill
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Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Worksby Francis ToyeISBN 0844300675 (0-8443-0067-5)
Hardcover, Horizon Pr
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Gramercy Parkby Paul A. Cohen, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618370 (84-95618-37-0)
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A Guide to Opera Recordingsby Ethan MorddenISBN 0195044258 (0-19-504425-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Harper Dictionary of Opera and Operettaby James AndersonISBN 0060164883 (0-06-016488-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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An Invitation to the Operaby John Louis DigaetaniISBN 0385263392 (0-385-26339-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Legendary Voicesby Nigel DouglasISBN 0879101873 (0-87910-187-3)
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Lyre of Orpheusby Robertson DaviesISBN 0816148392 (0-8161-4839-2)
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The Lyric Opera Companion: The History, Lore, and Stories of the World's Greatest Operasby Lyric Opera of ChicagoISBN 0836262182 (0-8362-6218-2)
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Lyric Opera of Chicagoby Claudia CassidyISBN 0960353801 (0-9603538-0-1)
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M. Butterflyby David Henry HwangISBN 0822207125 (0-8222-0712-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'M. Butterfly'Book summary:David Henry Hwang's beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author - winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer PrizeBased on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government-and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive-and as elusive-as a butterfly.How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government-and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life.Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a man's mistress-as well as his jailer. M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes-and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions.M. Butterfly remains one of the most influential romantic plays of contemporary literature, and in 1993 was made into a film by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone. [via]
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Magic Fluteby Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN 048624783X (0-486-24783-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Flute'Book summary:Mozart's "fairy-tale opera" is one of the most beloved works in the repertory. It is a favorite for children's first exposure to opera as it is an enchanting work jammed with melodies that are both noble and playful. The Magic Flute is also one of the most problematic works in the repertory, full of staging difficulties (the hero enters, pursued by a monstrous serpent, and promptly faints--not very heroic of him) and some elements that seem unpleasantly sexist and racist to today's sensibilities. And there's the perennial malcontent who's all too eager to point out that The Magic Flute is not really a grand opera in any case, but a mere singspiel, with spoken dialogue and coarse comedy, no better than an operetta. And what's with all the Masonic imagery?
The story certainly has problems, but the score--one of Mozart's last--overcomes them all as surely as the Three Ladies scrag the serpent and Sarastro and the forces of truth and reason overcome the wicked Queen of the Night. This music has it all, from the heroic notes of Sarastro and the priests to the humor of the bird catcher Papageno. Don't overlook the wonderful ensembles of the Drei Damen and Drei Knaben; Mozart blends trios of soprano voices in a way that's undiluted magic, and that no one even came close to imitating until more than two centuries later, when Richard Strauss took the master's lessons to heart.
You can examine for yourself just how Mozart achieved his effect with this full orchestral score from Dover. It's a reprint of another publisher's out-of-copyright score (C.F. Peters of Leipzig, in this particular case); also, there's not a word of English in it once you get past Dover's title pages and the translation of the table of contents that they've thoughtfully provided. What you will get is all of the instrumental parts (note that most pianists will be unable to do much with this score!), all of the vocal parts, and acres of uncut German dialogue. Dover scores are a reasonably priced resource for singers, instrumentalists, conductors, and anyone who cares deeply about the opera. [via]
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The Magic Flute: Adapted from the Opera by W.A.Mozartby P. Craig RussellISBN 1561633518 (1-56163-351-8)
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The Magic Flute, Masonic Opera: An Interpretation of the Libretto and the Musicby Jacques ChailleyISBN 0394434528 (0-394-43452-8)
Hardcover, A. A. Knopf
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Mozartby Wolfgang HildesheimerISBN 3518032046 (3-518-03204-6)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart'Book summary:Hildesheimer, Wolfgang: Mozart, Mit 10 Bildtafeln, Frankfurt/Main, Suhrkamp 1977, 417 S., OLwd. m. OU. gut erhalten [via]
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New Grove Dictionary of Operaby Stanley SadieISBN 0935859926 (0-935859-92-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The New Kobbe's Opera Bookby Harewood, George Henry Hubert Lascelles, Earl of, Anthony Peattie, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood, Gustav KobbeISBN 0399143327 (0-399-14332-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Night's Daughterby Marion Zimmer BradleyISBN 0345309200 (0-345-30920-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Operaby William Berger, Placido DomingoISBN 0399527435 (0-399-52743-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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A Nut at the Operaby Maurice VellecoopISBN 1896597947 (1-896597-94-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Operaby Rudolf HartmannISBN 0890095760 (0-89009-576-0)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordingsby Anthony TommasiniISBN 0805074597 (0-8050-7459-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Opera Companionby George MartinISBN 0396080979 (0-396-08097-9)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Opera: Desire, Disease, Deathby Linda Hutcheon, Michael HutcheonISBN 0803273185 (0-8032-7318-5)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Opera: Desire, Disease, Death'Book summary:Opera has never been short on pain and suffering. The diseases that actually appear onstage, however, depend greatly on cultural context. In this provocative academic study, Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon ponder the significance behind the ailments that beset operatic characters. The authors' division of specialties--she is a literary critic, he is an MD--gives them a built-in perspective on their subject. The Hutcheons do not claim to be musical experts; they quote from scholars to bolster their arguments, which focus on librettos and source material.
Operatic diseases are largely those with overtones of moral, not just physical, infection. Tuberculosis was a 19th-century favorite, associated with feverish passion and the self-consuming flame of artistic creativity. The authors contrast tubercular heroines before and after the discovery of the illness's cause, which altered the perception of TB from a disease of temperament (La Traviata) to one of poverty and overcrowding (La Bohème). They also consider syphilis (The Rake's Progress, Lulu, and even Parsifal), cholera (Death in Venice), and another "pathology," smoking (Carmen). As the last example hints, the book's true theme is not disease, exactly. These conditions and habits--all linked in some way to emphatic sexuality--indicated a morally dubious life and marked a character for doom.
The authors' thesis encourages the reader to look behind the assumptions in these works. That is valuable, sometimes more than the arguments themselves, which can drift into repetitiveness and jargon (lots of references to "gendered coding" and "transgressiveness"). In an epilogue, the Hutcheons discuss plays--there are not yet any operas--dealing with AIDS. These works suggest a 21st-century model: affirmative, sometimes angry, refusing to exoticize or condemn their diseased heroes. --David Olivenbaum [via]
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Opera in Paris, 1800-1850: A Lively Historyby Patrick Barbier, Robert LuomaISBN 0931340837 (0-931340-83-7)
Hardcover, Hal Leonard Corp
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Opera/Parsifal, Salome, Mahler, Pelleas & Melisandeby P. Craig RussellISBN 091303553X (0-913035-53-X)
Softcover, Eclipse Books
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Operraticsby Michel Leiris, Jean Jamin, Guy BennettISBN 1892295032 (1-892295-03-2)
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The P. Craig Russell Library Of Opera Adaptationsby P. Craig RussellISBN 1561633895 (1-56163-389-5)
Softcover, Nbm Pub Co
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The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptations: Adaptations of Paprsifal, Ariane and Bluebeard, I Pagliacciby Russell P. CraigISBN 1561633720 (1-56163-372-0)
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The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptions: Adaptions of Parsifal, Ariana & Bluebeard, I Pagliacci & Songs By Mahlerby P. Craig Russell, Patrick Mason, Barry DanielsISBN 1561633739 (1-56163-373-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptions: Adaptions of Parsifal, Ariana & Bluebeard, I Pagliacci & Songs By Mahler'Book summary:[via]In this volume, Russells classic adaptations of Richard Wagners Parsifal from the legend of the Holy Grail, Ariane & Bluebeard by Maeterlinck and Dukas, The Clowns taken from I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo, as well as two songs by Mahler: The Drinking Song of Earths Sorrow" and Unto This World.More editions of The P. Craig Russell Library of Opera Adaptions: Adaptions of Parsifal, Ariana & Bluebeard, I Pagliacci & Songs By Mahler:
Penetrating Wagner's Ring: An Anthologyby John Louis DigaetaniISBN 0838617956 (0-8386-1795-6)
Hardcover, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Phantomby Susan KayISBN 1933626003 (1-933626-00-3)
Softcover, Media Creations Inc
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Puccini and His Operasby Stanley SadieISBN 0312244185 (0-312-24418-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Richard Strauss: The Staging of His Operas and Balletsby Rudolf HartmannISBN 0195202511 (0-19-520251-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Ring of Power: Symbols and Themes Love Vs. Power in Wagner's Ring Circle and in Us A Jungian-Feminist Perspectiveby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 0892540435 (0-89254-043-5)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Ring of the Nibelungby Roy ThomasISBN 0932956203 (0-932956-20-3)
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The Rise of English Operaby Eric W. WhiteISBN 0306717093 (0-306-71709-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Press, Incorporated
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Sign-Off for the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts 1950-1966by Paul JacksonISBN 1574670301 (1-57467-030-1)
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Singing from the Soul: An Autobiographyby Jose Carreras, Walter ProceISBN 1878756893 (1-878756-89-3)
Hardcover, Y C P Pubns
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Stanislavski on Operaby Constantin Stanislavski, Pavel Rumantsev, Elizabeth Reynolds HapgoodISBN 0878305521 (0-87830-552-1)
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Stories of the Great Operas and Their Composersby Ernest NewmanISBN 0403016320 (0-403-01632-0)
Hardcover, Native Amer Books Distributor
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The Story of Operaby Richard Somerset-Ward, Kiri Te KanawaISBN 0810941937 (0-8109-4193-7)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Such Sweet Compulsion: The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrarby Geraldine FarrarISBN 0836952057 (0-8369-5205-7)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Tenors, Tantrums and Trills: An Opera Dictionary from Aida to Zzzzby David W. Barber, Dave DonaldISBN 0920151191 (0-920151-19-1)
Softcover, Firefly Books Ltd
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Twenty-Six Italian Songs and Arias: For Medium Low Voiceby John Glenn PatonISBN 088284489X (0-88284-489-X)
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Verdiby Julian BuddenISBN 0460031651 (0-460-03165-1)
Hardcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Wagner and His Operasby Stanley SadieISBN 0312244320 (0-312-24432-0)
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The Wordsworth Book of Operaby Stanley Sadie, Arthur JacobsISBN 1853263702 (1-85326-370-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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The World of the Castrati : The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenonby Patrick BarbierISBN 0285634607 (0-285-63460-7)
Softcover, Souvenir Press Limited
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A-Z of Operaby Mary HamiltonISBN 1853263834 (1-85326-383-4)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Zeffirelli: An Autobiographyby Franco ZeffirelliISBN 1555840221 (1-55584-022-1)
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Der Freischutz: Romantische Oper in Drei Aufzugenby Carl Maria Von Weber, Friedrich KindISBN 3150025303 (3-15-002530-3)
Hardcover, P. Reclam
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Lohengrin: Romantische Oper in Drei Aufzugenby Richard Wagner, Wilhelm ZentnerISBN 3150056373 (3-15-005637-3)
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Dos Siglos De opera En Mexicoby Jose Octavio Sosa M., Monica Escobedo F.ISBN 9682922240 (968-29-2224-0)
Hardcover, Secretaria de Educacion Publica
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