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Bel Canto Bully
Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja was the influential force behind the careers of a plethora of artists including Vincenzo Bellini, Gioachino Rossini and the great mezzo-soprano Isabella Colbran. In this book, Eisenbeiss unlocks the enigma of this eccentric and fascinating personality that has been hitherto neglected.
Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.
The Definitive Job Book
There are few books available which cover the full job-searching, application, interview and negotiation process. The Definitive Job Book is just that – it covers every single aspect of job-hunting in seven chapters. Each chapter includes 'advice from the inside' interviews with HR and recruitment specialists and 'I've been there too' interviews with people who have successfully navigated the recruitment minefield. The Definitive Job Book Is an essential reference for anyone - from graduates starting out, to senior executives seeking a change - to the job-hunting process. You will need only THIS book to get the job of your dreams.
The Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger and Catharina Steinbruch
Johann Peter Klinger was born 3 November 1773 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His parents were Johann Philip Klinger (1723-1811) and Eva Elisabeth Beilstein (1730-ca. 1815). He married Catharina Steinbruch, daughter of Adam Steinbrecher and Anna Margaretha Hoffman, in about 1791 in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. They had eleven children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Pennsylvania and Indiana.
The Divine Claudia
“Muzio was a case apart: you cannot classify her, for in the end you have been so emotionally destroyed by her performance, you did not even know anymore what kind of instrument she had”. So spoke Lucrezia Bori, the beloved soprano of the Metropolitan Opera. Bori was echoing the opinion of many of Claudia Muzio’s contemporaries and successors such as Eva Turner, Rosa Ponselle, and Mafalda Favero who wrote:“Actually,” she [Favero] admitted with her total candor, “it took me a long time to find my own interpretation [La traviata], for I was haunted by Claudia Muzio in this role. When she sang it at the Colon in Buenos Aires in 1933, I went to each rehearsal, worshiping her, and it ...
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The Neapolitan Canzone in the Early Nineteenth Century as Cultivated in the Passatempi musicali of Guillaume Cottrau
This volume is a multi-disciplinary study of the Neapolitan tradition of nineteenth-century song or “Canzona napoletana.” It is based on primary (original music manuscripts) and secondary (correspondence, diaries, and varied historical materials) sources recovered from Neapolitan archives, libraries, and private collections. The book takes as its focus the figure of Guillaume Cottrau (1797-1847), a musician and publisher who left a significant breadth of original songs and arrangements issued in the song collection and series entitled Passatempi musicali. Cottrau was a cultural auteur, who integrated his diverse activities as editor, folklorist, and patron of salon music and musicians (i...
Tutto, sempre, ovunque
Dall'autore del brillante Grand Hotel Abisso, una nuova storia culturale, filosofica e artistica raccontata con la stessa spigliatezza. La postmodernità è la distruzione creativa che ha ridotto in frammenti il nostro tempo. Ha scardinato il modernismo, con il suo senso della storia, che aveva dominato il mondo occidentale per la maggior parte del XX secolo. Ma sotto la sua superficie scintillante nascondeva uno sporco segreto: era la foglia di fico per un nuovo tipo di capitalismo rapace. È stato anche il terreno di coltura della “post verità”, attraverso la quale i valori occidentali sono stati stravolti. Stuart Jeffries racconta una vicenda che parte dai primi anni Settanta e arriva fino a oggi, attraverso una galleria tumultuosa di ritratti che include David Bowie, l’Ipod, Madonna, il post-fordismo, Deleuze e Guattari, il Nixon Shock, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, i Sex Pistols, la Principessa Diana, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, l’11 settembre e molto altro.
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Trenomania!
Da bambino Jaroslav sognava di fare il ferroviere, come lo zio Miroslav, con la sua bella divisa azzurra e il cappello con la ruota alata. Una vista un po’ difettosa gli ha impedito di realizzare questo sogno, e oggi è uno scrittore con diversi romanzi, fumetti e sceneggiature all’attivo. Ma la passione per i treni non l’ha mai abbandonato, e in questo libro la racconta senza freni, con una voce ironica e spigliata. Perché quella del mondo ferroviario è una specie di religione, praticata più o meno in segreto da decine di migliaia di persone in tutta Europa. Persone che, come faceva Proust, sfogliano l’orario ferroviario come un catalogo di desideri, che conoscono tutti i ristora...
