Three Mozart Libretti
Title | Three Mozart Libretti PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0486277267 |
Handy practical guide to three of Mozart's most popular operas. Excellent line-for-line English translations face the Italian texts. Also introductions, plot synopses, and lists of characters for each opera.
Three Mozart Libretti
Title | Three Mozart Libretti PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780486277264 |
Handy practical guide to three of Mozart's most popular operas. Excellent line-for-line English translations face the Italian texts. Also introductions, plot synopses, and lists of characters for each opera.
Bastien und Bastienne
Title | Bastien und Bastienne PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | Leyerle Publications |
Total Pages | 840 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Title | Lorenzo Da Ponte PDF eBook |
Author | Sheila Hodges |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2002-06-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0299178730 |
Three of the greatest operas ever written—The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte—join the exquisite music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the perfectly matched libretti of Lorenzo Da Ponte. Da Ponte’s own long life (1749–1838), however, was more fantastic than any opera plot. A poor Jew who became a Catholic priest; a priest who became a young gambler and rake; a teacher, poet, and librettist of genius who became a Pennsylvania greengrocer; an impoverished immigrant to America who became professor of Italian at Columbia University—wherever Da Ponte went, he arrived a penniless fugitive and made a new and eventful life. Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III’s London to New York City.
Seven Mozart Librettos
Title | Seven Mozart Librettos PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 1177 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0393066096 |
Presents translations of librettos into verse of seven of Mozart's operas, including "The Marriage of Figaro," "Don Giovanni," and "Cosi Fan Tutte," featuring a history of each opera, dramatic recaps of the plots, and character lists.
History is Our Mother: Three Libretti
Title | History is Our Mother: Three Libretti PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Goodman |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1681370654 |
The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations. An NYRB Classics Original Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been popular—and, in the case of Klinghoffer, highly controversial—ever since they were first staged by the director Peter Sellars in the eighties and nineties. Both operas were conceived from the start as collaborations between composer and writer, and their power is due as much to the dazzlingly constructed and deeply felt libretti of the poet Alice Goodman as they are to John Adams’s music. Nixon in China is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it. Klinghoffer, by contrast, has at its center the tragedy of an innocent man condemned at the cost of his life to play a part in history. History Is Our Mother, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in Nixon in China, brings Goodman’s two libretti together for the first time in book form. Included alongside Goodman’s no less inspired translation of Emanuel Schikaneder’s famous libretto to The Magic Flute, these vivid dramas of character and searching meditations on fate are here revealed as among the most original, ambitious, and accomplished poetic achievements of our time.
Three Wagner Opera Libretti
Title | Three Wagner Opera Libretti PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wagner |
Publisher | Leyerle Publications |
Total Pages | 568 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
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