Jon Vickers
Author: Jeannie Williams
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781555536749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography of a legendary tenor.
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Indiana University Cinema
Author: Brittany D. Friesner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 0253058104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its first ten years, a small Midwestern cinema has attracted some of the most intriguing and groundbreaking filmmakers from around the world, screened the best in arthouse and repertory films, and presented innovative and unique cinematic experiences. Indiana University Cinema tells the story of how the cinema on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington grew into a vibrant, diverse, and thoughtfully curated cinematheque. Detailing its creation of a transformative cinematic experience throughout its inaugural decade, the IU Cinema has arguably become one of the best venues for watching movies in the country. Featuring 17 exclusive interviews with filmmakers and actors, as well as an afterword from Jonathan Banks (Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul), Indiana University Cinema, is a lavishly illustrated book that is sure to please everyone from the casual moviegoer to the most passionate cinephile.
Great Operatic Disasters
Author: Hugh Vickers
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1985-10-15
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780312346348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo its devotees, opera is the most sublime of arts. It is also one of the most accident prone, and when things go wrong, they tend to do so on a grand scale. Great Operatic Disasters records some of the most memorable calamities from opera houses around the world. Most of them are true, some have been embroidered over the years, and a few, well, se non e vero, e ben trovato.
Carmen
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Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781579125080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Paul Frey: A Story Never Predicted
Author: Nancy Silcox
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-06-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1725261669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA more unlikely world opera star than Paul Frey could not be found. Born into a conservative order Mennonite farming family in rural Ontario, Canada in 1941, he was a high school dropout. His first career was as a truck driver, transporting livestock to market. But he was a young man with a powerful and true tenor voice, and a desire to sing opera. Entering opera school unable to read musical notes or count beats, Frey was offered primarily chorus roles during training and after graduation. Frustrated, he moved to Switzerland in 1977, signing a contract with the Theater Basel as house tenor. In 1987, Frey came to the attention of Wolfgang Wagner of the famed Bayreuth Opera House in Bayreuth, Germany. He was chosen to star in Bayreuth's Werner-Herzog-directed production of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin. At Bayreuth, Frey became a star and the world sat up and took notice. Offered lead roles from opera houses across the globe, Paul Frey was compared to the greatest of tenors, including Canadian Jon Vickers. Retiring in 2005, Paul Frey lives today in "Mennonite Country," where he was born and raised.
The Rough Guide to Opera
Author: Matthew Boyden
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 9781858287492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
Outsider
Author: John Rockwell
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2009-05-01
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780879103675
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Limelight). Now available in paperback, this compilation by longtime New York Times music and arts critic John Rockwell features the creme de la creme of the renowned journalist's arts criticism and commentary over the past 40 years. Taken mostly from the Times , but also including pieces from 17 other sources, such as the Los Angeles Times , The New Republic , the San Francisco Examiner , High Fidelity , Opera , and the Village Voice , these writings present Rockwell's unique vision of the arts scene over the past 40 years, with essays on classical music (including the breadth of contemporary works), rock, dance, art, film, theater, general arts topics, and reports from abroad. Rockwell's analysis includes parallels among the arts, insights from one to another, as he brilliantly communicates his aesthetic experiences to the reader.
The Opera Lover's Companion
Author: Charles Osborne
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9780300123739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.
Opera Viva
Author: Ezra Schabas
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1770700978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt started with a festival - three classic operas performed in a theatre in Toronto. But when it became apparent that there was a need for a national opera company, an organization was founded that would go on to become one of the largest performing arts organizations in the country. The Canadian Opera Company was born in 1950, and is now one of the major opera companies in North America. The Company has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, and has delighted audiences as far away as Australia and Hong Kong, all the while finding the time to record frequently and develop special operatic presentations for children. More than just a group of performers, the COC also provides a training program for young professional singers, and a series of commissions of new works from both up-and-coming and established composers. Opera Viva is a history of the Company, but it is more than that: it is also a history of Canada’s cultural growth in the second half of the twentieth century, a time when the Canadian Opera Company became central to Canada’s musical life. As the story of the Company unfolds, the figures and personalities that were integral to the building of this landmark of Canadian culture are brought to life.
Opera
Author: Linda Hutcheon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780674013261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts"--Besedilo z zavihka.
