Sing Me a Story

Sing Me a Story

Author: Jane Rosenberg

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1996-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780500278734

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An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.


The Random House Book of Opera Stories

The Random House Book of Opera Stories

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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780679893158

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Capture the excitement of a night at the opera with this stunning collection of eight favorite opera stories, each illustrated by a different artist.The Magic FluteAidaCarmenThe Cunning Little VixenTurandotCinderellaHansel & GretelThe Love for Three Oranges


The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera

The Barefoot Book of Stories from the Opera

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Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901223415

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The author's rewriting of opera stories from seven different composers combined with illustrations and a select discography, introduces to children some of the great operatic themes of the last 200 years.


Chinese Opera

Chinese Opera

Author: Peter Lovrick

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0774844450

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Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.


Her Stories

Her Stories

Author: Elana Levine

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781478007661

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Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered cultural form and a central force in the economic and social influence of network television. Closely observing the production, promotion, reception, and narrative strategies of the soaps, Levine examines two intersecting developments: the role soap operas have played in shaping cultural understandings of gender and the rise and fall of broadcast network television as a culture industry. In so doing, she foregrounds how soap operas have revealed changing conceptions of gender and femininity as imagined by and reflected on the television screen.


The Mouse of the Opera

The Mouse of the Opera

Author: Tuula Pere

Publisher: Wickwick

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9523258753

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A curious wood mouse, Maurice decides to explore the opera house, which glimmers like a giant lantern from across the lawn. Lured by beautiful music, he sneaks in for a tour of the opera house’s rehearsals, wardrobe room, restaurant, and orchestra pit. The uninvited guest causes a great commotion, triggering a wild chase. Luckily, a gentle caretaker understands that even a little mouse can yearn for music.


Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

Author: Henri Murger

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Bohemians of the Latin Quarter is a work by Henri Murger, published in 1851. Although it is commonly called a novel, it does not follow the standard novel form. Rather, it is a collection of loosely related stories, all set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, playfully romanticizing bohemian life. Most of the stories were originally published individually in a local literary magazine, Le Corsaire. Many of them were semi-autobiographical, featuring characters based on actual individuals who would have been familiar to some of the magazine's readers.


Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater

Author: Nina Penner

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0253049989

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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Unique about Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century audiences.