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In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women who were her role models, from her ancestors to family friends, relatives, and teachers. She hails the importance of her parents in her early learning and experiences in the arts. And she describes coming face-to-face with racism, not just as a child living in the segregated South, but also as an adult out and about in the world. 

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 as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with...

People may say that I couldn't sing. But no one can say that I didn't sing.' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America's best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy...

Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.

A car mechanic turned internationally acclaimed opera star, Alfie Boe has taken Broadway by storm, conquered the West End and has won the hearts of the nation. The first official bad boy of opera, this is the story of his life - the ups and the downs, from finding fame to losing his father - and...

Russell 'The Voice' Watson is a star with a real story to tell. While most stars of today find success early, Russell was still working in a Salford factory at the age of 30. He spent the evenings singing in working men's clubs for extra cash to keep the bailiffs from his family's door. The...

For anyone who has been intimidated, overwhelmed, or just plain confused by what they think opera is, Who’s Afraid of Opera? offers a lively, easy-to-follow guide to what author Michael Walsh describes as “the greatest art form yet invented by humankind.” From opera’s origins in Renaissance Italy to the Who’s rock odyssey “Tommy”, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”, Walsh explores what opera is and what it’s not, what makes a great singer, and why it takes Tristan so long to die.

The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history. Contents: Glenn Miller, the leader of the most famous big band in the USA Pérez Prado, the Cuban musician who was known as ‘the King of Mambo’ Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the USA Luciano Pavarotti, one of the...

Un amore travolgente. Un intrigo pericoloso. Una scelta impossibile. Nella Roma tumultuosa del 1800, dove la politica e la passione si intrecciano in un gioco mortale, Floria Tosca è la donna più ammirata della città. Cantante d'opera di fama e bellezza straordinaria, la sua vita sembra essere un susseguirsi di applausi e trionfi. Ma dietro la facciata scintillante, Tosca nasconde un amore segreto e tormentato per Mario Cavaradossi, pittore ribelle che non ha paura di sfidare il potere. Un amore in bilico tra desiderio e pericolo.

DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE ist eine der bekanntesten Opern und ein zeitloses Meisterwerk. DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO des Genies Mozart begründet die Zusammenarbeit zweier Meister ihres Fachs: des Komponisten Mozarts mit dem Librettisten Lorenzo da Ponte. RIGOLETTO gilt als das erste Meisterwerk von Giuseppe Verdi und begründet seinen Weltruhm. Bereits bei der Uraufführung im Jahr 1851 am Teatro La Fenice in Venedig feierte sie einen überwältigenden Erfolg und wurde in den folgenden Jahren in ganz Europa aufgeführt.

A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2026 From the New York Times’s former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers The night before Marian Anderson performed her historic concert at the Lincoln...

C’est dans la cour d’une prison, en voulant héler un autre détenu, que Naestro pousse sa voix pour la première fois. Chacun se fige, sidéré. Devant ce trésor qui vient de jaillir, un gardien décide de l’initier à l’opéra. Désormais capable de chanter avec Roberto Alagna...

Known as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges the perception of opera as aloof by urging, among other things: performing operas in “non-places,” such as parking lots; encouraging the use of amplification; and shuffling the traditional structure of classic works, like performing Puccini’s La bohème in reverse order, ending not with the tubercular heroine Mimi’s death but with her first falling in love.

Rigoletto gilt als das erste Meisterwerk von Giuseppe Verdi und begründet seinen Weltruhm. Bereits bei der Uraufführung, im Jahr 1851 am Teatro La Fenice in Venedig, feierte sie einen überwältigenden Erfolg und wurde in den folgenden Jahren in ganz Europa aufgeführt. Das Libretto stammt von Francesco Maria Piave und beruht auf dem Melodrama Le roi s’amuse von Victor Hugo. Die Oper steht bis heute im Programm zahlreicher Opernhäuser und ist nach wie vor eine der meistgespielten italienischen Opern.

Blunt and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera culture—it’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insiders—as well as...