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Opera
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Performing Salome, Revealing Stories
With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source ma...
The Red Count
"A richly contextualized portrait of a key Weimar figure, who deserves to be better known. Easton is a lively writer."—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley "Provocative and original. The Red Count should be welcomed by a growing number of cultural historians interested in reassessing the politics of European modernism and in current debates about the trajectory of German political culture and cultural politics in the decades before the rise of fascism."—Kevin Repp, Yale University "A major addition to understanding the cultural contributions Germany made to the modernist impulse, especially in the years before 1914. Kessler’s numerous activities, as delineated by the author, attest to the cosmopolitanism of many within Germany’s urban, liberal elite. The Red Count is extremely well-written. Easton’s prose is fluid, colorful, and eminently readable. " —Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University
World Guide to Special Libraries
The World Guide to Special Libraries lists about 35,000 libraries world wide categorized by more than 800 key words - including libraries of departments, institutes, hospitals, schools, companies, administrative bodies, foundations, associations and religious communities. It provides complete details of the libraries and their holdings, and alphabetical indexes of subjects and institutions.
The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss
A richly interdisciplinary study of Strauss's contributions to ballet, his collaboration with prominent dance artists of his time, and his explorations of musical modernism.
Strauss
Richard Strauss is an outlier in the context of twentieth century music. Some consider him a composer of the late romantic period, while others declare him a traitor of modernity for his role in National Socialism. Despite the controversy surrounding him, Strauss's works--even beyond his most well-known operas Elektra and Rosenkavalier--are present in the repertories of concert halls worldwide and continue to enjoy large audiences. The details of the composer's life, however, remain shrouded in mystery and gossip. Laurenz Lütteken's Strauss presents a fresh approach to understanding this elusive composer's life and works. Dispensing with stereotypes and sensationalism, it reveals Strauss to be a sensitive intellectual and representative of modernity, with all light and shade of the turn of the twentieth century.
Richard Strauss' Oper "Die schweigsame Frau"
In dieser Monographie zu Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau werden erstmals sämtliche überlieferten Quellen erschlossen und so differenzierte Einblicke in die Entstehungsgeschichte der Oper gegeben. Dabei wird das quellenphilologische Fundament mit einem werkanalytischen Ansatz verbunden. Der Autor begegnet der Materialfülle mit einem paradigmatischen Verfahren, das sich im philologischen Teil an den mehrfach skizzierten Werkteilen, im analytischen Teil an den dramaturgischen Prämissen des Textbuchs von Stefan Zweig orientiert. Der Konflikt um das Erbe wird als die zentrale dramaturgische Trennlinie des I. Aktes ausgemacht, die expositions- von kulminationsdramaturgischen Handlungsmomenten scheidet. Eine Dramaturgie der Intrige prägt den II. und III. Akt. Der umfassende quellenkritische Anhang ordnet den konsultierten Skizzen die skizzierten Werkteile zu.
Richard Strauss und die Sächsische Staatskapelle
Salome, Elektra und Der Rosenkavalier traten einst ihren Siegeszug durch die Welt von Dresden aus an, wo sie umjubelte Uraufführungen erlebt hatten. Insgesamt neun Bühnen- und dazu weitere Werke von Richard Strauss sind hier aus der Taufe gehoben worden, immer wieder stand der Komponist selbst am Pult des von ihm geliebten Orchesters. Seit den 1960er Jahren wurden in der Dresdner Lukaskirche mit der Sächsischen Staatskapelle Schallplattenaufnahmen der wesentlichen Opern in hochkarätigen Besetzungen eingespielt, zudem eine exemplarische Gesamtaufnahmeeinspielung der Orchesterwerke (Leitung: Rudolf Kempe). Volle 66 Jahre umfasste der persönliche Kontakt zwischen Strauss und „der Kapelle...
