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Pages: 182
Authors: Dana Gioia
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-12-03 - Publisher: Paul Dry Books

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"Looking at opera from the standpoint of its texts, as only a gifted poet and librettist can do, Dana Gioia examines why a surprisingly small number of operas h
Where the Stress Falls
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Susan Sontag
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-21 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Two decades of indispensable work by a great American writer. Thirty-five years after her first collection of essays, Sontag has chosen more than 40 longer and
Norma
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Vincenzo Bellini
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: Alma Books

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Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, first produced at La Scala, Milan, in 1831, is widely regarded as the greatest achievement of the bel canto era. Its title role, sung
Weep, Shudder, Die
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Robert Levine
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"Icouldn't imagine a finer or livelier guide through the world of opera. . . . [Levine] distills a lifetime of passion and insight into this immenselyenjoyable
A Mad Love
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Vivien Schweitzer
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A lively introduction to opera, from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera -- and few that are