Satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic through the love story between Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath.
An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.
The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today ...
Presents the plots of famous operas in story format, including "The Magic Flute," "Carmen," "Aida," and "The Cunning Little Vixen"
New York: Norton, 1997. ———, ed. Readings in Black American Music. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1983. Standifer, James A. Porgy and Bess: An American Voice. Directed by Nigel Noble. Narrated by Ruby Dee. Films for the Humanities and ...
Just as the efforts of Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland spurred the revival of bel canto opera, conductors have been a vital link to formerly neglected repertory. Callas elevated the status of bel canto music when she demonstrated how ...
clared the moral bankruptcy of the Mozart - Da Ponte operas . Like many of his contemporaries , he considered Cori fan tutte to be beneath contempt . And although he admired the music of Figaro and Don Giovanni , he declared his ...
Thehistorical context had changed and the priority was now aesthetic rather than moral, yet there was something familiar about the figure of an outsider who could manage the professional categories involved in staging an opera: ...
I conclude that it is not possible to analyse an opera in such a way as to pronounce one section Apolline , and another Dionysian . The furthest I would care to go , if you like Nietzsche's metaphor , is to suggest that some operas may ...