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Music and Nationalism: A Study of English Opera
Cecil Forsyth
Opera studies / nationalism / British music · 1911 · English
Cecil Forsyth. Music and Nationalism: A Study of English Opera. London: Macmillan and Co., 1911.
Published in London in 1911, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research role,…
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Great Operas
Michael Steen
Opera guide / audience reference · 2012 · English
Michael Steen. Great Operas: A Guide to Twenty-Five of the World’s Finest Musical Experiences. Icon Books, 2012. ISBN 9781848316119.
Steen’s guide selects twenty-five widely performed operas and treats each as a complete cultural and theatrical experience. Plot is combined with composer biography, historical setting, musical points to listen for and information about the circumstances of composition and first performance. The selection ranges from Handel and Mozart through…
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The Standard Operas
George P. Upton
Opera reference / repertory guide · English
George P. Upton. The Standard Operas.
The Standard Operas by George P. Upton is preserved here as a curated bibliographic dossier so that the work can be found reliably by title, author and normalized variants. Its principal value is historical and documentary: it provides a period perspective on the standard operas and complements modern…
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The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera, with Full Descriptions of All Works in the Modern Repertory
R. A. Streatfeild
Opera history / repertory guide · 1897 · English
R. A. Streatfeild. The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera, with Full Descriptions of All Works in the Modern Repertory. London, 1897.
A compact historical survey combined with descriptions of repertory works, useful for studying late Victorian opera canon formation and reception.
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A Second Book of Operas
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Opera guide / criticism · 1917 · English
Henry Edward Krehbiel. A Second Book of Operas. New York, 1917.
A continuation of Krehbiel’s repertory guide, extending the historical and critical discussion to additional operas and early twentieth-century stage practice.
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The Opera Goer's Complete Guide
Leo Melitz
Opera reference guide · 1921 · English
Leo Melitz. The Opera Goer's Complete Guide. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1921.
A quick-reference compendium of more than two hundred opera plots with cast lists and key musical numbers.
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Chapters of Opera
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Opera history / New York performance chronicle · 1908 · English
Henry Edward Krehbiel. Chapters of Opera. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1908.
Published in New York in 1908, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research…
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More Chapters of Opera
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Opera history / performance chronicle · 1919 · English
Henry Edward Krehbiel. More Chapters of Opera. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919.
Published in New York in 1919, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research…
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Massenet and His Operas
Henry T. Finck
Opera biography / works study · 1910 · English
Henry T. Finck. Massenet and His Operas. New York: John Lane Company, 1910.
Published in New York in 1910, this volume belongs to the historical literature through which musicians, critics and teachers organized knowledge about its subject. Its value in Classical Archive is not only bibliographic: the dossier records the edition identity, principal responsibility, publication context and the work's likely research…
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The Opera, Past and Present
William Foster Apthorp
Opera history / criticism · 1901 · English
William Foster Apthorp. The Opera, Past and Present. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1901.
The Opera, Past and Present is represented here as a researched bibliographic dossier for a historically significant source in music study. The volume belongs to the literature surrounding opera history / criticism and is catalogued with normalized title and author variants so that it remains discoverable even when…
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Handel’s Operas, 1704–1726
Winton Dean and J. Merrill Knapp
Opera studies / composer works study · 1987 · English
Winton Dean and J. Merrill Knapp. Handel’s Operas, 1704–1726. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1987.
This dossier identifies Handel’s Operas, 1704–1726 by Winton Dean and J. Merrill Knapp as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when…
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Handel’s Operas, 1726–1741
Winton Dean
Opera studies / composer works study · 2006 · English
Winton Dean. Handel’s Operas, 1726–1741. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2006.
This dossier identifies Handel’s Operas, 1726–1741 by Winton Dean as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when the physical PDF has…
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The Operas of Richard Strauss
William Mann
Opera studies / composer study · English
William Mann. The Operas of Richard Strauss.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Richard Strauss by William Mann, selected for its direct relevance to opera history and the biography or analysis of major operatic repertory.
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The Complete Operas of Verdi
Charles Osborne
Opera guide / Verdi studies · English
Charles Osborne. The Complete Operas of Verdi.
A curated dossier for The Complete Operas of Verdi by Charles Osborne. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Stanley Sadie (ed.)
Opera encyclopedia · 1992 · English
Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan Press, 1992.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The…
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The Oxford Dictionary of Opera
John Warrack and Ewan West
Opera dictionary · 1992 · English
John Warrack and Ewan West. The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
The Oxford Dictionary of Opera is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier…
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The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia
David Hamilton (ed.)
Opera encyclopedia · 1987 · English
David Hamilton (ed.). The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier records…
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The New Penguin Opera Guide
Amanda Holden (ed.)
Opera reference guide · 2001 · English
Amanda Holden (ed.). The New Penguin Opera Guide. London: Penguin, 2001.
The New Penguin Opera Guide is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier…
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The New Kobbé’s Opera Book
Lord Harewood and Antony Peattie (eds.)
Opera encyclopedia / repertory guide · 1997 · English
Lord Harewood and Antony Peattie (eds.). The New Kobbé’s Opera Book. London: Ebury Press, 1997.
The New Kobbé’s Opera Book is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier…
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The Viking Opera Guide
Amanda Holden, Nicholas Kenyon and Stephen Walsh (eds.)
Opera encyclopedia / repertory guide · 1993 · English
Amanda Holden, Nicholas Kenyon and Stephen Walsh (eds.). The Viking Opera Guide. London: Viking, 1993.
The Viking Opera Guide is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier records…
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Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama
George Ainslie Hight
Opera analysis / Wagner studies · 1912 · English
George Ainslie Hight. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: An Essay on the Wagnerian Drama. London: Methuen & Co., 1912.
Examines Tristan und Isolde as drama and music, including leitmotivic process, poetic design and Wagnerian aesthetics.
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Studies in the Wagnerian Drama
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Opera criticism / Wagner studies · 1891 · English
Henry Edward Krehbiel. Studies in the Wagnerian Drama. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891.
Essays on Wagner's dramatic method, mythic sources, leitmotifs and the interpretation of the music dramas.
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Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance
Gary Tomlinson
Opera / Renaissance-Baroque studies · English
Gary Tomlinson. Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance.
A curated dossier for Monteverdi and the End of the Renaissance by Gary Tomlinson. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names…
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A History of Opera
Burton D. Fisher
General opera history / reference guide · 2005 · English
Burton D. Fisher. A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses. Opera Journeys Publishing, 2005. ISBN 9781930841987.
Fisher presents opera history as a sequence of major transformations in style, theatrical convention and cultural function. The book is designed for the informed general reader and moves across the principal periods and schools of the repertory, using representative composers and works to mark changes from early opera…
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The Standard Light Operas
George P. Upton
Reference guide / opera · 1902 · English
George P. Upton. The Standard Light Operas. A. C. McClurg, 1902.
This curated dossier identifies The Standard Light Operas by George P. Upton and makes the work discoverable through the unified Library search even when the underlying document uses a shortened or inconsistent technical filename. The record preserves the work as a bibliographic reference and places it within the…
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The Art of Music — Volume 9
Daniel Gregory Mason (editor) with associate editors
Music history / reference series · 1915 · English
Daniel Gregory Mason (editor) with associate editors. The Art of Music — Volume 9: The Opera. New York: The National Society of Music, 1915.
Volume 9 of the fourteen-volume 1915 reference series The Art of Music is devoted to The Opera. The series combines narrative history, specialist essays, illustrations, reference tools and musical examples, creating a broad survey of the repertory and musical culture recognized by English-language scholarship in the early twentieth…
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Richard Wagner: Composer of Operas
John F. Runciman
Biography / opera criticism · 1913 · English
John F. Runciman. Richard Wagner: Composer of Operas. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1913.
A concise critical life organized around Wagner's operas, with strong opinions on the composer's development and dramatic achievement.
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Gluck and the Opera
Ernest Newman
Composer study / opera history · 1895 · English
Ernest Newman. Gluck and the Opera. Bertram Dobell, London, 1895.
Gluck and the Opera is represented here as a researched bibliographic dossier for a historically significant source in music study. The volume belongs to the literature surrounding composer study / opera history and is catalogued with normalized title and author variants so that it remains discoverable even when…
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Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume II: Opera and Drama
Richard Wagner
Aesthetic treatise / opera theory · 1900 · English; translated by William Ashton Ellis
Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner’s Prose Works, Volume II: Opera and Drama. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900.
This volume belongs to William Ashton Ellis’s eight-volume English translation of Richard Wagner’s prose writings. It preserves essays and theoretical texts that document Wagner’s ideas about music drama, theatre, performance, culture and society, and is therefore useful as a primary-source witness to the intellectual framework surrounding his stage…
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Bellini: His Life and His Operas
Herbert Weinstock
Biography / composer / opera studies · 1971 · English
Herbert Weinstock. Bellini: His Life and His Operas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.
This expanded dossier treats Bellini: His Life and His Operas as a substantial source on Vincenzo Bellini. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between…
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The Operas of Verdi, Volume I
Julian Budden
Verdi opera studies · English
Julian Budden. The Operas of Verdi, Volume I.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Verdi, Volume I by Julian Budden. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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The Operas of Verdi, Volume II
Julian Budden
Verdi opera studies · English
Julian Budden. The Operas of Verdi, Volume II.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Verdi, Volume II by Julian Budden. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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The Operas of Verdi, Volume III
Julian Budden
Verdi opera studies · English
Julian Budden. The Operas of Verdi, Volume III.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Verdi, Volume III by Julian Budden. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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The Operas of Puccini
William Ashbrook
Puccini opera studies · English
William Ashbrook. The Operas of Puccini.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Puccini by William Ashbrook. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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The Operas of Mozart
William Mann
Mozart opera studies · English
William Mann. The Operas of Mozart.
A curated dossier for The Operas of Mozart by William Mann. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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Mozart’s Operas
Edward J. Dent
Mozart opera studies · English
Edward J. Dent. Mozart’s Operas.
A curated dossier for Mozart’s Operas by Edward J. Dent. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even…
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The Wagner Operas
Ernest Newman
Wagner opera studies · English
Ernest Newman. The Wagner Operas.
A curated dossier for The Wagner Operas by Ernest Newman. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even…
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Janáček’s Operas: A Documentary Account
John Tyrrell
Documentary opera studies · English
John Tyrrell. Janáček’s Operas: A Documentary Account.
A curated dossier for Janáček’s Operas: A Documentary Account by John Tyrrell. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera
William Berger
Composer biography / opera guide · English
William Berger. Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera.
A curated dossier for Verdi with a Vengeance: An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera by William Berger. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record…
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La Nilsson: My Life in Opera
Birgit Nilsson
Singer autobiography · English
Birgit Nilsson. La Nilsson: My Life in Opera.
A curated dossier for La Nilsson: My Life in Opera by Birgit Nilsson. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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Life of Rossini
Stendhal
Biography / contemporary opera criticism / reception history · 1972 · English, translated from French
Stendhal. Life of Rossini. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972.
Stendhal’s Rossini is less a conventional biography than a contemporary, argumentative portrait of the composer and the operatic culture around him. Written while Rossini was still the dominant European opera celebrity, it mixes description of works, theatrical gossip, aesthetic polemic and observations on singers, audiences and institutions.
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Great Singers — First Series
George T. Ferris
Collective singer biography / opera performance history · English
George T. Ferris. Great Singers — First Series.
The first series gathers biographical portraits of famous singers and gives a vivid sense of the celebrity culture surrounding nineteenth-century opera and concert performance. It preserves descriptions of voices, stage presence and public reception from an era with no surviving recordings of most of its subjects.
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Great Singers — Second Series
George T. Ferris
Collective singer biography / opera performance history · English
George T. Ferris. Great Singers — Second Series.
The second series extends Ferris’s gallery of singers and further documents the transnational operatic world in which reputations circulated between Italian, French, German, British and American stages.
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The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth
Albert Lavignac
Wagner studies / opera guide · 1898 · English
Albert Lavignac. The Music Dramas of Richard Wagner and His Festival Theatre in Bayreuth. New York, 1898.
A detailed contemporary guide to Wagner’s music dramas and the Bayreuth Festival, including thematic and theatrical discussion from the period close to the original Wagner tradition.
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Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas
W. J. Henderson
Biography / opera analysis · 1901 · English
W. J. Henderson. Richard Wagner: His Life and His Dramas. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.
Combines Wagner biography with explanations of the major music dramas, their sources, dramatic structures and musical techniques.
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Puccini: His Life and Works
Julian Budden
Scholarly biography / composer / opera studies · 2002 · English
Julian Budden. Puccini: His Life and Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
This expanded dossier treats Puccini: His Life and Works as a substantial source on Giacomo Puccini. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person…
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Rossini
Gaia Servadio
Biography / composer / opera history · 2003 · English
Gaia Servadio. Rossini. London: Constable, 2003.
This expanded dossier treats Rossini as a substantial source on Gioachino Rossini. It records the bibliographic identity of the volume and situates the narrative within the artist’s chronology, professional network, repertory, institutional environment and reception. Particular attention is paid to the difference between first-person testimony, retrospective recollection and…
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Cavalli
Jane Glover
Composer biography / Venetian opera · 1978 · English
Jane Glover. Cavalli. London, 1978.
This dossier identifies Cavalli by Jane Glover as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when the physical PDF has an abbreviated…
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Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works
Edward J. Dent
Biography / opera and vocal music · 1905 · English
Edward J. Dent. Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works. London: Edward Arnold, 1905.
This dossier identifies Alessandro Scarlatti: His Life and Works by Edward J. Dent as a distinct research source for Baroque music. It places the work within scholarship on the composer, repertory and institutions concerned while indexing title and author variants so that the record remains discoverable even when…
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Puccini: His International Art
Michele Girardi
Puccini biography / opera studies · English
Michele Girardi. Puccini: His International Art.
A curated dossier for Puccini: His International Art by Michele Girardi. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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Rossini: A Biography
Herbert Weinstock
Composer biography / opera history · English
Herbert Weinstock. Rossini: A Biography.
A curated dossier for Rossini: A Biography by Herbert Weinstock. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even…
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Massenet: A Chronicle of His Life and Times
Demar Irvine
Composer biography / opera history · English
Demar Irvine. Massenet: A Chronicle of His Life and Times.
A curated dossier for Massenet: A Chronicle of His Life and Times by Demar Irvine. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal…
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Richard Strauss and His World
Bryan Gilliam
Composer biography / cultural history · English
Bryan Gilliam. Richard Strauss and His World.
A curated dossier for Richard Strauss and His World by Bryan Gilliam. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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Verdi: His Music, Life and Times
George Whitney Martin
Composer biography / opera history · English
George Whitney Martin. Verdi: His Music, Life and Times.
A curated dossier for Verdi: His Music, Life and Times by George Whitney Martin, selected for its direct relevance to opera history and the biography or analysis of major operatic repertory.
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Stravinsky: A Creative Spring — Russia and France, 1882–1934
Stephen Walsh
Composer biography · English
Stephen Walsh. Stravinsky: A Creative Spring — Russia and France, 1882–1934.
A curated dossier for Stravinsky: A Creative Spring — Russia and France, 1882–1934 by Stephen Walsh. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both…
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Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure
Stephen Walsh
Composer biography / Russian music history · English
Stephen Walsh. Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure.
A curated dossier for Musorgsky and His Circle: A Russian Musical Adventure by Stephen Walsh. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal…
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Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
Singer biography · English
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend.
A curated dossier for Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal…
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Callas: The Art and the Life
John Ardoin
Singer biography / performance study · English
John Ardoin. Callas: The Art and the Life.
A curated dossier for Callas: The Art and the Life by John Ardoin. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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Joan Sutherland: The Authorized Biography
Norma Major
Singer biography · English
Norma Major. Joan Sutherland: The Authorized Biography.
A curated dossier for Joan Sutherland: The Authorized Biography by Norma Major. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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A Prima Donna’s Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland
Singer autobiography · English
Joan Sutherland. A Prima Donna’s Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland.
A curated dossier for A Prima Donna’s Progress: The Autobiography of Joan Sutherland by Joan Sutherland. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both…
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The Song Continues: My Life in Music
Marilyn Horne
Singer autobiography · English
Marilyn Horne. The Song Continues: My Life in Music.
A curated dossier for The Song Continues: My Life in Music by Marilyn Horne. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names…
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In My Own Voice: Memoirs
Christa Ludwig
Singer memoir · English
Christa Ludwig. In My Own Voice: Memoirs.
A curated dossier for In My Own Voice: Memoirs by Christa Ludwig. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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Pavarotti: My Own Story
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright
Singer autobiography / biography · English
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright. Pavarotti: My Own Story.
A curated dossier for Pavarotti: My Own Story by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names…
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Pavarotti: My World
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright
Singer memoir · English
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright. Pavarotti: My World.
A curated dossier for Pavarotti: My World by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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My First Forty Years
Plácido Domingo
Singer autobiography · English
Plácido Domingo. My First Forty Years.
A curated dossier for My First Forty Years by Plácido Domingo. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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Tito Gobbi: My Life
Tito Gobbi
Singer autobiography · English
Tito Gobbi. Tito Gobbi: My Life.
A curated dossier for Tito Gobbi: My Life by Tito Gobbi. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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My Memoirs in Pictures
Birgit Nilsson
Singer memoir / pictorial autobiography · English
Birgit Nilsson. My Memoirs in Pictures.
A curated dossier for My Memoirs in Pictures by Birgit Nilsson. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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Kirsten Flagstad: Singer of the Century
Howard Vogt
Singer biography · English
Howard Vogt. Kirsten Flagstad: Singer of the Century.
A curated dossier for Kirsten Flagstad: Singer of the Century by Howard Vogt. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and…
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Jussi Björling: His Life and Career
Andrew Farkas and Anna-Lisa Björling
Singer biography / career study · English
Andrew Farkas and Anna-Lisa Björling. Jussi Björling: His Life and Career.
A curated dossier for Jussi Björling: His Life and Career by Andrew Farkas and Anna-Lisa Björling. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both…
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Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior
Shirlee Emmons
Singer biography / Wagner performance history · English
Shirlee Emmons. Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior.
A curated dossier for Tristanissimo: The Authorized Biography of Heroic Tenor Lauritz Melchior by Shirlee Emmons. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both…
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Alan Jefferson
Singer biography · English
Alan Jefferson. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
A curated dossier for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf by Alan Jefferson. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles even when…
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography
Hans A. Neunzig
Singer biography / Lied performance history · English
Hans A. Neunzig. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography.
A curated dossier for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: A Biography by Hans A. Neunzig. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work…
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Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family
Enrico Caruso Jr.
Singer biography / family memoir · English
Enrico Caruso Jr.. Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family.
A curated dossier for Enrico Caruso: My Father and My Family by Enrico Caruso Jr.. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal…
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Pages from My Life
Feodor Chaliapin
Singer autobiography · English
Feodor Chaliapin. Pages from My Life.
A curated dossier for Pages from My Life by Feodor Chaliapin. The work is included for its direct relevance to opera history, vocal interpretation, repertory, or the biography of major operatic figures. The record is designed to make the book discoverable through both personal names and work titles…
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