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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera s greatest artists have striven to fuse multiple art forms -- music, drama, poetry, dance -- into a unified synesthetic experience. The composer Matthew Aucoin, a rising star of the opera world,...
Author
Publisher
Amadeus Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Covering 47 operas, The Opera Companion is a classic reference book for opera lovers, whether devoted or casual, and the best introduction for beginners. Synopses of forty-seven of the most frequently performed operas are given, with key words to clue listeners into the action, and musical descriptions designed for those who cannot read music. A catalog of major operas lists composers, libretitists, and dates and places of first performances. The...
3) La strada
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Italiano
Description
Directed by Federico Fellini, the story of a fragile girl who falls in love with a brute circus performer she was sold to by her mother.
Series
Criterion collection volume 149
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2002
Language
Italiano
Description
When she suspects her husband of infidelity, a housewife unleashes an unconscious ripe with erotic fantasies. In this film, Fellini's first feature-length color film, his examination of the sexual psyche unfolds via the surrealistic use of abrupt cut-aways to illustrate the woman' sexual fantasies.
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