Molto Agitato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Molto Agitato write by Johanna Fiedler. This book was released on 2003-09-09. Molto Agitato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If the opera world is full of “intrigue, double meanings, and devious dramatics,” then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, and oversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along with some of the world’s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years as its press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditional secrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertaining account of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met’s early days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, and Caruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years when haughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of a company that would emerge as America’s premiere opera house. She takes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent years as well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances and scandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler’s portrayals of James Levine and Joseph Volpe and their practically parallel ascendancies—Levine rising from prodigy to artistic director, Volpe advancing from stagehand to general manager—and their once strained relationship. Weaving together the personal, economic, and artistic struggles that characterize the Met’s long and vibrant history, Molto Agitato is a must-read saga of power, wealth, and, above all, great music.
The Metropolitan Opera Cookbook
The Metropolitan Opera Cookbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metropolitan Opera Cookbook write by Jules Jerome Bond. This book was released on 1988. The Metropolitan Opera Cookbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Features 180 recipes from past and present stars of the chorus and orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Opera, including Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, and Maria Callas. Includes brief biographies, 200 photographs, and more. "The ultimate operatic dining experience".--Harper's Bazaar.
Grand Opera
Grand Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Opera write by Charles Affron. This book was released on 2014-09-22. Grand Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner’s "Ring," Grand Opera is a remarkable account of management and audience response to the push and pull of tradition and reinvention. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful "Live in HD" simulcasts and other twenty-first-century innovations. Grand Opera’s appeal extends far beyond the large circle of opera enthusiasts. Drawing on unpublished documents from the Metropolitan Opera Archives, reviews, recordings, and much more, this richly detailed book looks at the Met in the broad context of national and international issues and events.
Sing Me a Story
Sing Me a Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sing Me a Story write by Jane Rosenberg. This book was released on 1996-01. Sing Me a Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.
The Metropolitan Opera Murders
The Metropolitan Opera Murders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Metropolitan Opera Murders write by Helen Traubel. This book was released on 2022-02-01. The Metropolitan Opera Murders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one time world famous Heldentenor has been poisoned. The detective assigned to the case, Lt. Quentin, finds himself immersed in the back stage drama of professional opera. His task is made more difficult when he decides that it had really been the star soprano who had been the intended victim, and not the prompter. Will he be able to solve the case before there is another Metropolitan Opera Murder?
