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Opera

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Books

500 Nights at the Opera

    Author:  Bing, Rudolf

     Holdings:  ML429.B52 A3

 

Adelina Patti: Queen of Hearts

     Author:  Cone, John Frederick

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Beggar’s Opera

     Author:  Pepusch, John Christopher

     Holdings:  ML50.5 .B3 1962

 

Bringing Opera to Life:  Operatic Acting and Stage Direction

     Author:  Goldovsky, Boris

     Holdings:  ML1700 .G738B7

 

Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera

     Author:  Meyer, Stephen C.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Complete Singer-Actor:  Training for Music Theater

     Author:  Balk, H. Wesley

     Holdings:  ML3858 .B25

 

Complete Stories of the Great Operas

     Author:  Cross, Milton John

     Holdings:  MT95 .C76

 

Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart’s Vienna:  A Poetics of Entertainment

     Author:  Hunter, Mary Kathleen

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Early Opera in America

     Author:  Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore

    Holdings:  ML1711 .S73 1963

 

Encyclopedia of Opera

     Author:  Chase, Gilbert

     Holdings:  ML102.O6 E6

 

Exploring Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung

     Author:  Fisher, Burton D.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Foundations of English Opera:  A Study of Musical Drama in England During the Seventeenth Century

     Author:  Dent, Edward Joseph

     Holdings:  ML1731.2 .D4 1965

 

Great Singers:  From the Dawn of Opera to our Own Time

     Author:  Pleasants, Henry

     Holdings:  ML400 .P65

 

History of Opera

    Author:  Sadie, Stanley

    Holdings:  ML1700 .H57 1990

 

History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses

     Author:  Fisher, Burton D.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Inventing the Business of Opera:  the Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice

     Author:  Glixon, Beth Lise.

     Holdings:  ML1733.8.V4 G65 2006

 

Lily Pons:  A Centennial Portrait

     Author:  Drake, James A. and Kristin Beall Ludecke

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Listening to Theatre:  The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera

     Author:  Wichmann, Elizabeth

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Master Builders of Opera

     Author:  Jell, George Clarence

     Holdings:  ML390 .J29 1970

 

Metropolitan Opera, 1883-1966: A Candid History

     Author:  Kolodin, Irving

     Holdings:  ML1711.8.N3 M44 1966

 

Metropolitan Opera Annals:  A Chronicle of Artists and Performances

     Author:  Seltsam, William H.

     Holdings:  Reference ML1711.8.N32 M48

 

Musical Theater Synopses:  An Index

     Author:  Drone, Jeanette Marie

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

My Golden Age of Singing

     Author:  Hempel, Frieda

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

New Encyclopedia of the Opera

     Author:  Ewen, David

     Holdings:  ML102.O6 E9 1971

 

New Kobbé's Complete Opera Book

     Author:  Kobbé, Gustav

     Holdings:  MT95 .K52 1976

 

Nicolai Gedda:  My Life & Art

     Author:  Gedda, Nicolai

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini

     Author:  Pistone, Danièle

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

On Russian Music, Critical and Historical Studies of Glinka’s Operas, Balakirev’s Works,  Etc.,With Chapters Dealing with Compositions by Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glazunov, and Various Other Aspects of Russian Music

     Author:  Abraham, Gerald

     Holdings:  ML300 .A16S82 1970

 

Opera

     Author:  Hamm, Charles

     Holdings:  ML1700 .H34

 

Opera:  A History

     Author:  Headington, Christopher

     Holdings:  ML1700 .H42 1987b

 

Opera, the Extravagant Art

     Author:  Lindenberger, Herbert Samuel

     Holdings:  ML1700 .L56 1984

 

Opera in America:  A Cultural History

     Author:  Dizikes, John

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Opera in Context:  Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini

     Author:  Radice, Mark A.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Opera in Perspective

     Author:  Drummond, John D.

     Holdings:  ML1700 .D75 1980

 

Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice:  The Creation of a Genre

     Author:  Rosand, Ellen

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Opera Scenes for Class and Stage

     Author:  Wallace, Mary

     Holdings:  MT955 .W24

 

Oxford Illustrated History of Opera

    Author:  Parker, Roger

    Holdings:  ML1700 .O95 1994

 

Peking Opera: A Short Guide

     Author:  Halson, Elizabeth

     Holdings:  ML1751.C4 H34

 

Performing Arts, the Economic Dilemma:  A Study of Problems Common to Theater, Opera, Music, and Dance

     Author:  Baumol, William J.

     Holdings:  PN1586 .B3

 

Richard Strauss, The Staging of His Operas and Ballets

     Author:  Hartmann, Rudolf

     Holdings:  ML410.S93 H3713 1981

 

Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement

     Author:  Morrison, Simon Alexander

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950

     Author:  Jackson, Paul

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Short History of Opera

    Author:  Grout, Donald Jay

    Holdings:  ML1700 .G83 1965

 

Sociology of Opera

     Author:  Martorella, Rosanne

     Holdings:  ML1711 .M38 1982

 

Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar’s Opera: A Collection of Critical Essays

     Author:  Noble, Yvonne

     Holdings:  PR3473.B6 N6

 

Twentieth Century Opera in England and the United States

     Author:  Northouse, Cameron

     Holdings:  ML128.O4 N7

 

Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera

     Author:  Littlejohn, David

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Verdi at the Golden Gate:  Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years

     Author:  Martin, George Whitney

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

When the Fat Lady Sings

     Author:  Barber, David W.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

World Treasury of Grand Opera

    Author:  Marek, George Richard

    Holdings:  ML1700.1 .M33 1971

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