Category: Opera

xvii, 238pp, 16 plates. Home of two of the most famous opera & ballet companies. In this official history the author discusses the achievements, the internal politics, the personalities and the ever-present problems of finance. View more info

Opera & its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music and Staging

By: Donington, Robert

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6950

ISBN: 0300047134

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

248pp, illustrations, music examples. Discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. View more info

Wagner's Ring and its Symbols: The Music and the Myth

By: Donington, Robert

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 1969

Edition: Third Edition

Seller ID: 12558

ISBN: 0571048188

Condition: Very Good

Reprinted 1979. 342pp, music examples. View more info

The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera and Ballet

By: Drogheda, Davison & Wheatcroft

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1981

Seller ID: 12561

ISBN: 0710008805

Condition: Very Good

208pp, 245 illustrations. Previous owners initials. A small repaired tear to back cover else very good. View more info

Music Drama at the Paris Odeon, 1824-1828

By: Everist, Mark

Price: £20.00

Publisher: California University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 8205

ISBN: 0520234456

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

331pp, illustrations, music examples. The Paris Odeon enjoyed a brief but highly successful life during the Bourbon Restoration and its expansion of operatic repertoire through the introduction of foreign works changed the musical life of the city. This study traces the evolution of the Odeon, examining its internal administration, its relationships with composers, librettists, and the city's wider cultural life, and demonstrating how the original license, restricting the theatre to the production of established opera comique and non-French pieces, was instrumental in its success. View more info

The Ring: Anatomy of an Opera

By: Fay, Stephen and Wood, Roger

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg: 1984

Seller ID: 12782

ISBN: 0436151804

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

218pp. Colour and b/w plates. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. This book follows the production of the 'English Ring' at Bayreuth from its inception to performance. View more info

Wagner the Dramatist

By: Garten, H.F.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: John Calder: 1977

Seller ID: 7273

ISBN: 0714536202

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

159pp, frontis, 15 plates. Ex library, remains of plate on endpaper, usual stamps. View more info

Songs of Two Savoyards

By: Gilbert W.S. & Sullivan A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1948

Seller ID: 3866

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

268pp, illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. Neat signature & address of previous owner slightly chipped & price clipped dw View more info

Opera for Everybody - The Story of English National Opera

By: Gilbert, Susie

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: 2009

Seller ID: 12729

ISBN: 0571224938

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

720pp, plates. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. Traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum. View more info

French Opera. A Short History

By: Giroud, Vincent

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2010

Seller ID: 12263

ISBN: 0300117655

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

x, 366pp, 16 plates. From the 17th century to the present this book surveys of works by composers from Lully to Messiaen. Tracing the development of form and style, it profiles the performers and audiences, and unwraps the politics and the scandals. View more info