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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great...
Author
Language
English
Description
Political opera has been alive and well in Washington D.C. since the city became the nation's capital, and the Washington National Opera company, housed at the Kennedy Center, is no stranger to politics itself. Murder at the Opera re-introduces a popular couple who have appeared in some of the earlier Capital Crimes novels: law professor Mac Smith and his wife, Georgetown gallery owner Annabel Reed-Smith, who has a professional relationship with some...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through classics like Carmen and La Boheme, and spanning to Brokeback Mountain and The Death of Klinghoffer in recent years. Musician and critic Vivien Schweitzer...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A bold, engaging exploration of opera's fundamental nature and enduring appeal, from the sixteenth century to the present. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political, and literary backgrounds, its economic circumstances, and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. The authors examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works-- once opera's lifeblood--...
18) Opera music
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book introduces opera music, discussing its beginning more than 300 years ago, instruments in the orchestra, and famous composers and singers, such as Mozart, Puccini, and Placido Domingo.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers' chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls...