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Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Le nozze di Figaro is one of Mozart's best-loved and most enduring works. The first of the three operas he wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte and based on Beaumarchais's play, it established the thirty-year-old Mozart as an opera composer of the very first rank. Its combination of wit, acute psychological obse ...Show more
Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Otello, Verdi's penultimate opera, was composed more than a dozen years after Aida, which he had intended to be his last work for the stage. He was persuaded by his publisher Giulio Ricordi to work with the librettist Arrigo Boito on an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello; the resulting work is one of t ...Show more
Parsifal by Wagner Richard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
From its conception in 1857 to its first performances in 1882, Parsifal represented the culmination of the themes that preoccupied Wagner during the latter part of his life. This guide includes a series of articles on Wagner's profound and complex opera, which the composer preferred to call a Bu¨hnenwei ...Show more
Simon Boccanegra by English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Giuseppe Verdi; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versions are included in this guide, with a number of essays which focus on the differences between the two. Rodolfo Celleti provides the story's historical context ...Show more
TOSCA by PUCCINI GIACOMO
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Here is one of Puccini's greatest hits, in an affordable version for complete orchestra. This story of love, art and death in Rome during the Napoleonic wars is today considered a classic for such arias as "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art; I lived for love), but at its premiere in 1900 it was denounced a ...Show more