Carmen Abroad
Carmen Abroad

Author: Richard Langham Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-30

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1108481612

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A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.

Sixty Years of California Song
Sixty Years of California Song

Author: Margaret Blake-Alverson

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3734069777

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Reproduction of the original: Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake-Alverson

Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory
Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory

Author: Gavin Holman

Publisher: Gavin Holman

Published:

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county

Opera for Everybody
Opera for Everybody

Author: Susie Gilbert

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 722

ISBN-13: 057126865X

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Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.