Avidly Reads Opera

Avidly Reads Opera
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 114
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781479811762
ISBN-13 : 1479811769
Rating : 4/5 (769 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Avidly Reads Opera by : Alison Kinney

Download or read book Avidly Reads Opera written by Alison Kinney and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we’re listening for the first time or revisiting the arias that first stole our hearts, Avidly Reads Opera welcomes readers and listeners to a community full of friendship, passion, critique—and, always, beautiful music. In times of delirious, madcap fun and political turmoil, opera fans have expressed their passion by dispatching records into the cosmos, building fairy-tale castles, and singing together through the arduous work of social activism. Avidly Reads Opera is a love letter to the music and those who love it, complete with playlists, a crowdsourced tip sheet from ultra-fans to newbies, and stories of the turbulent, genre-busting, and often hilarious history of opera and its audiences. Across five acts—and the requisite intermission—Alison Kinney takes us everywhere opera’s rich melodies are heard, from the cozy bedrooms of listeners at home, to exclusive music festivals, to protests, and even prisons. Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at culture. With the singular blend of personal reflection and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Opera is an homage to the marvelous, sensational world of opera for the casual viewer.


Avidly Reads Opera Related Books

Avidly Reads Opera
Language: en
Pages: 114
Authors: Alison Kinney
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-12 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.” All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantast
Opera for Everybody
Language: en
Pages: 722
Authors: Susie Gilbert
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-03 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social r
Conducting Opera
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Joseph Rescigno
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Book describes how to conduct major operas that are commonly performed. The author describes his own approach to the most difficult passages in operas by Mozar
Reading Opera
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Arthur Groos
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approache
Space Opera
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Catherynne M. Valente
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's