作者: Roger Parker

Opera performances are often radically inventive. Composers’ revisions, singers’ improvisations, and stage directors’ re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they …

‘Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera, ‘ writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To exam …

Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical thea …

In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer’s love of musical drama and to a …

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MGF and TF Restoration Manual provides the MGF or TF owner with a complete workshop guide to mechanical and body restoration for the cars. With the MGF in production between 1995 and 2001, and the MG …

The books in the Everyday Modifications series from Crowood are designed to guide classic car owners through the workshop skills needed to make their cars easier to use and enjoy. MG expert Roger …

Die Oper ist die unglaublichste aller künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen – und dieses Buch der unglaublichste aller Versuche, sie zu beschreiben! Es ist ein Meisterwerk an Anschaulichkeit, …

Each entry in this New Grove series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their …

Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with …

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city’s tumult …

“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn …

Im Dunkeln sitzend und mit stiller Aufmerksamkeit folgen wir heute dem Operngeschehen auf der Bühne. Das war nicht immer so. Wer wissen möchte, was die Oper einst war, wie sie sich bis heute …

Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although …