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Puccini's La Boheme - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.61 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Puccini's Madama Butterfly - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Verdi's La Traviata - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
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Learn to Sing!

by Stephen Worthing ...

If you are an aspiring singer, or already sing for a living, this book will guide you through advanced techniques in improving your singing, breathing and control, to further develop your talent.The book includes numerous singing exercises, developing vocals, breathing, being on stage and much more inside information. ... Read more

$5.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you are an aspiring singer, or already sing for a living, this book will guide you through advanced techniques in improving your singing, breathing and control, to further develop your talent.The book includes numerous singing exercises, developing vocals, breathing, being on stage and much more inside information.
... Read more
Tchaikovsky

The Man and his Music

by David Brown ...

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the lesser known pieces. David Brown enthusiastically and sensitively guides the reader through Tchaikovsky's music in the context of his life. His writing on the music is ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the lesser known pieces. David Brown enthusiastically and sensitively guides the reader through Tchaikovsky's music in the context of his life. His writing on the music is
... Read more
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Rossini's Barber Of Seville - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Mozart's The Marriage Of Figaro - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Bizet's Carmen - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Pucciini's Tosca - Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis. ... Read more

$8.90 CAD

A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
... Read more
Donizetti's Lucia DI Lammermoor - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

$10.43 CAD

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.
... Read more
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra - Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series

by Burton D. Fisher ...

A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis. ... Read more

$8.90 CAD

A comprehensive guide that includes Principal Characters in the Opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
... Read more
Dans la peau de Maria Callas

by Alain Duault ...

Series series Dans la peau de…
1er septembre 1977. Maria Callas est chez elle, dans son grand appartement parisien de l’avenue George-Mandel, seule. Rideaux tirés, elle regarde les photos de ses rôles, réécoute ses disques et se souvient de sa vie. Le 16 septembre au matin, elle cesse de vivre. On a dit que le grand air de Tosca, Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore (« J’ai vécu d’art, j’ai vécu d’amour »), résumait toute sa vie : elle ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

1er septembre 1977. Maria Callas est chez elle, dans son grand appartement parisien de l’avenue George-Mandel, seule. Rideaux tirés, elle regarde les photos de ses rôles, réécoute ses disques et se souvient de sa vie. Le 16 septembre au matin, elle cesse de vivre. On a dit que le grand air de Tosca, Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore (« J’ai vécu d’art, j’ai vécu d’amour »), résumait toute sa vie : elle
... Read more
Phantom of the Baroque Opera

Its Host of the Contemporary Era

by Vivaldi Venkat ...

The focus of Phantom of the baroque Opera is the parallel drawn between the sea piracy of the baroque and renaissance eras and the cyber piracy of the contemporary digital era. International frameworks to deal with sea piracy then and cyber piracy now remain ambiguous for any law enforcement entities to prosecute. Despite heavy resources deployed to combat this menace in the past; in today’s world ... Read more

$3.31 CAD

The focus of Phantom of the baroque Opera is the parallel drawn between the sea piracy of the baroque and renaissance eras and the cyber piracy of the contemporary digital era. International frameworks to deal with sea piracy then and cyber piracy now remain ambiguous for any law enforcement entities to prosecute. Despite heavy resources deployed to combat this menace in the past; in today’s world
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Father Lee's Opera Quiz Book

by M. Owen Lee ...

Series series Heritage
How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including straight-forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles. Each puzzle has a theme, such as baseball and opera, movies and opera, and operas set in Paris. Forty-three of the puzzles have been collected from Father Lee ... Read more

$25.91 CAD

How well do you think you know your opera? Match wits with Metropolitan Opera quiz master Father Owen Lee in forty-five opera-related puzzles, including straight-forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles. Each puzzle has a theme, such as baseball and opera, movies and opera, and operas set in Paris. Forty-three of the puzzles have been collected from Father Lee
... Read more
Richard Wagners Wohnorte in Sachsen

Die Orte, an denen das Operngenie seine Jugend und jungen Jahre verbrachte

by Ulrike Eichhorn ...

Richard Wagner war Sachse. In Leipzig geboren, in Dresden aufgewachsen und als Komponist und Kapellmeister an der Semperoper erfolgreich, war Richard Wagner auch Bewohner sächsischer Städte und Besucher sächsischer Landschaften. Sie inspirierten und beflügelten ihn. Obgleich viele Jahre vergangen sind, lassen sich Spuren seiner Wohnorte verfolgen. ... Read more

$5.31 CAD

Richard Wagner war Sachse. In Leipzig geboren, in Dresden aufgewachsen und als Komponist und Kapellmeister an der Semperoper erfolgreich, war Richard Wagner auch Bewohner sächsischer Städte und Besucher sächsischer Landschaften. Sie inspirierten und beflügelten ihn. Obgleich viele Jahre vergangen sind, lassen sich Spuren seiner Wohnorte verfolgen.
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Von Operfranken bis Operösterreich

Wissenswertes und Gesangloses zu 44 Opernspielstätten in Süddeutschland und den Alpenländern

by Richard Deiss ...

Wissenswertes, Anekdotisches und bei Opernhausbesuchen persönlich Erlebtes zu mehr als 40 Opernspielstätten in Süddeutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich, Liechtenstein und Slowenien sind in diesem kleinen Büchlein in kurzen Texten zusammengestellt. ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

Wissenswertes, Anekdotisches und bei Opernhausbesuchen persönlich Erlebtes zu mehr als 40 Opernspielstätten in Süddeutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich, Liechtenstein und Slowenien sind in diesem kleinen Büchlein in kurzen Texten zusammengestellt.
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Parsifal: Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera

by H. R. Hawreis ...

According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works." "Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 July 31, ... Read more

$1.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

According to Wikipedia: "Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works." "Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 July 31,
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Rossini's The Barber of Seville

A Short Guide to a Great Opera

by Michael Steen ...

Series series Great Operas
The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini's famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Bizet's Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being among the greatest of comic operas, comparable to those of Mozart. Even Beethoven was enthusiastic.Figaro, Seville's barber, is confident of a good pay-off for facilitating the elopement of Rosina with ... Read more

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The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini's famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Bizet's Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being among the greatest of comic operas, comparable to those of Mozart. Even Beethoven was enthusiastic.Figaro, Seville's barber, is confident of a good pay-off for facilitating the elopement of Rosina with
... Read more
Mozart's Don Giovanni

A Short Guide to a Great Opera

by Michael Steen ...

Series series Great Operas
With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a sneaking admiration – gatecrashes proceedings, serenading and seducing as he goes. As wily as he is insatiable, he outclasses all who are out to get him, including a jealous bumpkin and the down-at-heel ... Read more

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With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a sneaking admiration – gatecrashes proceedings, serenading and seducing as he goes. As wily as he is insatiable, he outclasses all who are out to get him, including a jealous bumpkin and the down-at-heel
... Read more
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

A Short Guide to a Great Opera

by Michael Steen ...

Series series Great Operas
The great Russian poet Pushkin's novel in verse tells the story of Tatyana, a love-struck country girl who unwisely wrote to the arrogant city-slicker Yevgeny Onegin professing her love. The tale resonated with Tchaikovsky when he found himself callously dismissing the suit of a student who similarly approached him out of the blue: within weeks, Tchaikovsky then married her! It was a disastrous ... Read more

$2.54 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The great Russian poet Pushkin's novel in verse tells the story of Tatyana, a love-struck country girl who unwisely wrote to the arrogant city-slicker Yevgeny Onegin professing her love. The tale resonated with Tchaikovsky when he found himself callously dismissing the suit of a student who similarly approached him out of the blue: within weeks, Tchaikovsky then married her! It was a disastrous
... Read more
Mozart's The Magic Flute

A Short Guide to a Great Opera

by Michael Steen ...

Series series Great Operas
Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children's opera, this is not a pantomime: rooted in Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, it promotes the ideals of progress, virtue, ... Read more

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Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer's drama Amadeus, admired Mozart's comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart's death in December 1791. Though sometimes enjoyed as a children's opera, this is not a pantomime: rooted in Freemasonry, the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, it promotes the ideals of progress, virtue,
... Read more
Die Walküre

Der Ring des Nibelungen

by Richard Wagner, Richard Wagner, Rosmarie König ...

Series series Opern der Welt
Dieses Buch, eine umfassende Einführung in Richard Wagners "Walküre", den ersten Abend der Tetralogie "Der Ring des Nibelungen", enthält das vollständige Textbuch mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Kurt Pahlen kommentiert das Werk durch musikbezogene Hinweise sowie Erläuterungen zur inneren und äußeren Handlung. Eine das Geschehen zusammenfassende Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der ... Read more

$19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Dieses Buch, eine umfassende Einführung in Richard Wagners "Walküre", den ersten Abend der Tetralogie "Der Ring des Nibelungen", enthält das vollständige Textbuch mit zahlreichen Notenbeispielen. Kurt Pahlen kommentiert das Werk durch musikbezogene Hinweise sowie Erläuterungen zur inneren und äußeren Handlung. Eine das Geschehen zusammenfassende Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der
... Read more
The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner

by Michael Tanner ...

Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and discussion, Wagner has had an influence on many fields outside music. In this lively pocket guide, Michael Tanner gives concise accounts of all his ... Read more

$10.07 CAD

Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate impact, as well as providing food for endless thought and discussion, Wagner has had an influence on many fields outside music. In this lively pocket guide, Michael Tanner gives concise accounts of all his
... Read more

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