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Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
This is a comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive, by Halévy.
Rossini
Gioachino Rossini was one of the most influential, as well as one of the most industrious and emotionally complex of the great nineteenth-century composers. Between 1810 and 1829, he wrote 39 operas, a body of work, comic and serious, which transformed Italian opera and radically altered the course of opera in France. His retirement from operatic composition in 1829, at the age of 37, was widely assumed to be the act of a talented but lazy man. In reality, political events and a series of debilitating illnesses were the determining factors. After drafting the Stabat Mater in 1832, Rossini wrote no music of consequence for the best part of twenty-five years, before the clouds lifted and he be...
The Rough Guide to Opera
Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.
Donizetti and His Operas
The series will include both new and recent titles drawn from the whole range of the Press's very substantial publishing programs.
The Pop Palimpsest
A fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays on intertextual relationships in popular music
Gioachino Rossini
Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary ands secondary sources related to this composer.
Translation and Interpretation
A volume in honour of Angela Locatelli The book explores the significance of literary translation and interpretation, in the widest sense of terms, as multiple processes of meaning and cultural transfer, by investigating how and why literature can be considered as a repository and a disseminator of knowledge and values. Featuring essays by a number of scholars focusing on a wide range of literary and critical texts of different nations and cultures and encompassing the last three centuries, this book intends to offer a contribution to the study of translation and interpretation as literary processes of cultural and epistemic dissemination of knowledge from both a theoretical and a practical perspective.
