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John Louis Digaetani
Richard Wagner wanted to create miracles with his operas, in much the same way as medieval dramatists wanted to produce miracles on stage in the hopes of dazzling and converting…
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Looks at the individual operas, including Der Fliegende Hollander , Tannhauser , Lohengrin , Tristan und Isolde , Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg , and Parsifal . This work reveals the…
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John Louis DiGaetani
A reference companion to the life and career of Luigi Pirandello, covering his plays, novels and short stories, as well as translations of his poems. Background information provided include surveys…
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Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st…
Joining two seemingly irreconcilable opposites, money and art, this edited collection analyzes the treatment of money in various forms of literature.
This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, re-examining his life in light of new documents and new sensibilities. His life was a series of abandonments and…
In its revised third edition, this volume argues that an appreciation of opera is based on an understanding of several key aspects: history, language, theatrical production, the power of the…
With provocative essays for both the uninitiated and the seasoned fan, this book examines Wagner’s Ring cycle from an array of perspectives. Divided into six parts, this anthology first offers…
It is common, particularly in the plays of the 20th and 21st century, to see a playwright delving into psychological issues raised by his own mental struggles or those of…
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Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) is best known for his plays that have famously been adapted into opera librettos. Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was based on a play by Gozzi…
Maria Callas was, perhaps, the greatest opera singer of the 20th century. Hers was a life lived on the world stage. This biography of Callas tells her story from difficult…
Puccini the Thinker traces Puccini’s development as an opera composer and thinker, focusing on the composer’s ideas as they appear in his operas. The book, written for the operagoer and…
