Opera

Christian world, colored by the particular history of postmedieval Freema- sonry, but applicable to others as well.” A further l ...

Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839–1881) The name is also transliterated Mussorgsy or Musorgskii. Editions 1344.Modest Petrovich M ...

Operas in General Emerson, Caryl. “Musorgsky’s Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina.” In Readin ...

Carr, Maureen A. “Keys and Modes, Functions and Progressions in Mus- sorgsky’s Boris Godunov.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Wisconsin-Mad ...

offered, in a rich context of Russian aesthetic disputes of the period and the composer’s efforts to adapt to prevailing views. ...

Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) Faris, Alexander. Jacques Offenbach.New York: Scribner, 1980. 273p. ISBN 0-684-16797-2. ML410 .O4 ...

Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816) Hunt, Jno Leland. Giovanni Paisiello: His Life as an Opera Composer. National Opera Association ...

Carlo Pallavicino (1630–1688) The name also appears as Pallavicini, and the birthdate is in doubt. Smith, Julian. “Carlo Pallav ...

Schultz, William Eben. Gay’s “Beggar’s Opera”: Its Content, History, and Influence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale U.P., 1923. xxiii, 4 ...

A valuable information source on the composer, featuring 489 annotated entries (61 on the operas) that cover the literature. Als ...

La serva padrona Folena, Gianfranco. ll linguaggio della “Serva padrona.”In Muraro (#2576), v.2, 1–20. Librettist Gennaro Feder ...

Carter, Tim. “Jacopo Peri (1561–1633): His Life and Works.” Ph.D. diss., U. of Birmingham, 1980. Carter, Tim. “Jacopo Peri.” M& ...

Williamson, John. The Music of Hans Pfitzner. New York: Oxford U.P., 1992. xiv, 382p. ISBN 0-19-816160-3. ML410 .P32 W5. Life a ...

the first Italian opera performed in English in Britain, at Covent Garden. [It was also the first opera staged in Africa and in ...

style.” His music shows “pre-Neapolitan traits” in the late period: fewer but more elaborate arias and alternation between secco ...

Nestyev, Israel. Prokofiev.Trans. Florence Jonas; foreword by Nicolas Slonim- sky. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford U.P., 1960. 528p. ...

coming to America. Prokofiev set it for the Chicago Opera and conducted the premiere on 30 December 1921. The libretto is compar ...

Greenwald, Helen M. “Recent Puccini Research.” AM65 (1993): 23–50. A useful guide to Puccini scholarship, presenting major writ ...

Letters and Documents Gara, Eugenio, with assistance of Mario Morini. Carteggi pucciniani. Milan: Ricordi, 1958. xxii, 744p. ML ...

An English translation, by William Ashbrook, has been announced. It is a rou- tine biography but conveys interesting perceptions ...