Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
Language: en
Pages: 611
Authors: Peter Conrad
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-07 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson

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An exploration of the lives and works of Verdi and Wagner as well as their respective legacies to the present day, written by a noted cultural critic. This is t
Four Last Songs
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Linda Hutcheon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Later life is a fraught topic in our commercialized, anti-aging, death-denying culture. Where does creativity fit in? The canonical composers whose stories are
The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Mark Berry
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This Companion provides an overview and in-depth analysis of Wagner's Ring using traditional critical analysis alongside more recent approaches.
Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Mattia Acetoso
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-24 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and shed
Dictionary of World Biography
Language: en
Pages: 941
Authors: Barry Jones
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-05 - Publisher: ANU Press

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Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school