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Calcutta: a cultural and literary history
Calcutta: a cultural and literary history
... Printed in Canada Page 6. FOREWORD by Anita Desai (vii) PREFACEANDACKNOWLEDGMENTS
(xiv) INTRODUCTION « KOLIKATA, CALCUTTA, KOLKATA Kalighat (4) CHAPTER ONE (9) ...
LikeMusic in the British Provinces, 1690-1914
Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914
The period covered by this volume, roughly from Purcell to Elgar, has
traditionally been seen as a dark age in British musical history. Much has been
done recently to revise this view, though research still tends to focus on ...
Re-gendering the Libertine; or, the Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don Giovanni on the early …
Re-gendering the Libertine; or, the Taming of the Rake: Lucy Vestris as Don Giovanni on the early …
When Luigi Bassi entered the stage of the Prague National Theatre in 1787 to
create the title role of Mo2art and Da Ponte's Don Giovanni, he could have drawn
inspiration from a rich tradition of theatrical, pantomimic and marionette ...
Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music
Europe, empire, and spectacle in nineteenth-century British music
This volume illuminates musical connections between Britain and the continent of
Europe, and Britain and its Empire. The seldom-recognized vitality of musical
theatre and other kinds of spectacle in Britain itself, and also the ...
Thirty years' musical recollections
Thirty years' musical recollections
VI CONTENTS. PAGE THE YEAR 1849 (Royal Italian Opera.) 85 M. Meyerbeer's
Operas—" Le Prophete." - 91 M. Auber's Operas. - - 104 THE YEAR 1850 (Her
Majesty's Theatre.) - - 111 THE YEAR 1850 (Royal Italian Opera.) - - - 120 ...
The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Goldrush Australia
The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Goldrush Australia
PATRICIA CLANCY was for many years a senior lecturer in the French Department of
the University of Melbourne. She is a winner of the Victorian Premier's Award
for Literary Translation. JEANNE ALLEN taught French at La Trobe and ...
A history of Victoria
A history of Victoria
Page 1. A History of Victoria Geoffrey Blainey ... A HISTORY OF VICTORIA Geoffrey Blainey
has written over thirty books, including A Short History of the World. ...
En travesti: women, gender subversion, opera
En travesti: women, gender subversion, opera
... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data En travesti: women, gender
subversion, opera/edited by Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. ...
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900
Copyright © 2007 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton
University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United
Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire ...
Voicing gender: castrati, travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera
Voicing gender: castrati, travesti, and the second woman in early-nineteenth-century Italian opera
Page 1. AND THE SECOND WOMAN IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN OPERA Naomi
Andre Page 2. Page 3. Voicing Gender This One 6KK8-U5Z-DANZ Page 4. MUSICAL
MEANING AND INTERPRETATION Robert S. Hatten, editor Page 5. ...
Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna
This collection of essays, by a distinguished international group of scholars,
explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second
half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains the ...
The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna: a poetics of entertainment
The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna: a poetics of entertainment
Mozart's comic operas are among the master- works of Western civilization, and
yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte
wrote these now- popular operas has received little critical atten -tion. ...
Opera on the road: traveling opera troupes in the United States, 1825-60
Opera on the road: traveling opera troupes in the United States, 1825-60
A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book. ... UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana and Chicago ... Publication of this book was supported
by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent ...
Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse
Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse
Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse* ... Mimicry reveals
something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that
is behind. The effect of mimicry is cam- ouflage. . . . It is not a ...
The location of culture
The location of culture
The Location of Culture 'The work being done in my field, African and
African-American Studies, is unimaginably richer because of Homi Bhabha's
stunning contribution to literary, historical, and cultural studies. The ...
The opera industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: the role of the impresario
The opera industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: the role of the impresario
This is the first systematic social history of the workings of the opera
industry in Italy from the time of Cimarosa and Mozart to the latter part of
Verdi's career. Italian opera in the days of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, ...
Singers of Italian opera: the history of a profession
Singers of Italian opera: the history of a profession
John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the
chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the present.
Where did they come from? How were they trained? What did they earn, and ...