Isbn: 9780520076082 - the ultimate art: essays around and about opera (28 risultati)

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Hardback. Condizione: Good. Anyone who cares about opera will find "The Ultimate Art" a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination with the many worlds from which it sprang. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, opera has been decried by its detractors for its elitism, its artifice, its absurd costliness, and its social irrelevance. But Littlejohn makes us see that opera embraces an extraordinary amount of intense human emotion and experience, Western culture, and individual psychology. It is also the most complex, challenging, and demanding form of public performance ever developed - at its most spectacular it pulls together in one evening a play, a concert, a ballet, and a pageant, not to mention an exhibition of painting and sculpture. Every opera is a veritable piece of cultural history. The book begins with "The Difference Is They Sing", a potentially controversial essay on the nature of opera and its place in modern culture. From there Littlejohn goes on to consider everything from "Sex and Religion in French Opera" to "What Peter Sellars Did to Mozart". He tells us about every major staging of Wagner's "Ring cycle" since 1876, the troubled fate (in legend, history, and opera) of the city of Nuremberg, and the volatile collaboration of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Littlejohn presents these and many other fascinating moments in the history of opera with conviction and flair. By the end of the book the reader may very well be persuaded that opera is indeed the ultimate art.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condizione: Good. 2nd. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Cloth. Condizione: Poor. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Bumping to DJ and binding at top of spine, elsewise a bright, clean, tight, scholar/collector-worthy copy. ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. "Anyone who cares about opera will find 'The Ultimate Art' a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera-that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form-and his fascination with the many worlds from which it sprang. From its seventeenth-century beginnings, opera has been decried by its detractors for its elitism, its artifice, its absurd costliness, and its social irrelevance. But Littlejohn makes us see that opera embraces an extraordinary amount of intense human emotion and experience." CONTENTS (16 Essays): Singing Greek Tragedy; When Opera Was Still Serious; Ariosto and His Children; 'Don Giovanni': The Impossible Opera; What Peter Sellars Did to Mozart; 'Norma': The Case of Bel Canto; Hugo Sung and Unsung: Or Why We Put Up with Dumb Opera Plots; Sex and Religion in French Opera; Nuremberg Used and Abused; Whatever Became of the Breastplates?; What Makes 'Otello' Work? The Odd Couple: Offenbach and Hoffmann: The Janacek Boom; Herr von Words and Doctor Music; The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare; Artists on the Opera Stage. 303 pages. *NOTE: Due to size and weight of the book additional shipping cost will be required for out-of-U.S. shipment. GG4.…

Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. 303pp. Index. Light wear, DJ: rubbing, wear extremities, sticker back.

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used-Very Good. dj. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Light wear on dust jacket. Owner's bookplate inside front board. Gift inscription in ink.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition / First Printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page (signature only - no additional inscription). Some foxing, primarily on top edge of text block; dust jacket with a bit of edgewear. Signed Copy. …

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Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Bound in navy blue cloth. A bright, presentable copy, with a little unobtrusive faint spotting on top edge, and a crease in top corner of jacket's front flap. 255 x 175 mm. xviii, 308 pp. Occasional b&w illustrations. Includes suggestions for further reading and index. Book.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket.; Signed and inscribed by the author.; 10.10 X 7.10 X 3.60 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A book for opera enthusiasts by a critic who is engaging, agile, and (for an opera enthusiast) unusually equable: but DO NOT miss his massive quarrel with Peter Sellars. The finely written book stands out for its good sense, its careful scholarship, and -- most important - its broad sympathy with the array of competing elements that make up an operatic event.…

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; Half title page inscribed by David Littlejohn.; 303 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.

First edition. Kl.4° (26 x 18 cm). Erste Auflage, xvii, 303 pp. OLeinen, OU. / Editor's cloth, dj. Sprache: Englisch, With some figures and plates. Schutzumschlag gering angeränder / Dj very slightly chipped.