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Musik und Theater in der Schweiz des 19. Jahrhunderts [PDF ebook] 
Das Berner Hotel de Musique und sein Umfeld

”Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but read …

Originally published in German as Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard in 1957, this definitive work on the performance of Mozart”s works has greatly influenced students and scholars of keyboard lite …

Grzegorz Niziolek”s The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role …

First published in 2006. Kabuki is the most popular form of Japanese traditional theatre. More fast-moving than Noh, it is a colourful and exciting spectacle based around traditional, historical and …

The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent t …

In Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans provides a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Drawing on examples …

Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic …

Ninette de Valois was an extraordinary woman. Not only did she create The Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet School and the company that has become Birmingham Royal Ballet – in themselves great achieveme …

Winner of the ASLE-UKI 2022 Book Prize From The Pastoral Players” 1884 performance of As You Like It to contemporary site-specific productions activist interventions, there is a rich history of open …

Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies and t …