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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On opening night of The Nutcracker, the magnificent red velvet curtain is about to rise. The ballet dancers, singers, actors and musicians of the Royal Opera House are warming up in the wings and in the orchestra pit. Backstage, the crew prepares the lights, sets, props and costumes. Open this book and join Figaro the theater cat on a special backstage tour; where--from wigs and hats to scenery painting, ballet rehearsals to the orchestra pit, you'll...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Marie-Grace is excited that a well-known English opera company will perform at the very theater where she takes singing lessons from Aunt Océane, but as she and her friend Cécile help out backstage, the make disturbing discoveries.
64) Fitzcarraldo
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
65) Wagner & me
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Actor Stephen Fry visits the Wagner festival at Bayreuth in an exploration of Wagner's life, music and drama, his music's association with Hitler and Nazi Germany, and Fry's own efforts to reconcile his passion for Wagner's music with the music's "stained legacy."
67) Diva
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world....
Publisher
Universal Classics Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Italiano
Description
The pathos of this heart-rending story about a sweet-natured Japanese girl and the caddish American naval lieutenant who marries then deserts her has seldom been conveyed with such emotional directness. In his sumptuous filming of Puccini's opera, director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle uses an array of cinematic effects to evoke the protagonists' irreconcilably separate lives and worlds. As Butterfly, Mirella Freni is unbearably moving in one of the finest...
69) Roman + Jewel
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jerzie Jhames will do anything to land the lead role in Broadway's hottest new show, Roman and Jewel, a Romeo and Juliet inspired hip-hopera featuring a diverse cast and modern twists on the play. But her hopes are crushed when she learns mega-star Cinny won the lead...and Jerzie is her understudy. Falling for male lead Zeppelin Reid is a terrible idea-especially once Jerzie learns Cinny wants him for herself. Star-crossed love always ends badly....
70) Elysium fire
Author
Series
Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction...
72) Knight
Author
Series
Sibyl's war volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A legend of Space Opera is back with the second book in the Sibyl's War. Nicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called the Fyrantha. Now she is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with the aliens and their ship, and no one is happy. Competing factions control different parts...
73) The risen empire
Author
Series
Succession volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life-after-death, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power is absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshipped as living gods. The Rix are machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary size. Cool, relentless...
75) Operatic
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Somewhere in the universe, there is the perfect tune for you. It's almost the end of middle school, and Charlie has to find her perfect song for a music class assignment. The class learns about a different style of music each day, from hip-hop to metal to disco, but it's hard for Charlie to concentrate when she can't stop noticing her classmate Emile, or wondering about Luka, who hasn't been to school in weeks. On top of everything, she has been...
76) Nathan's song
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, Nathan embarks on a voyage from Russia to New York City hoping to become an opera singer, and works hard while missing his home and family. Includes note about the author's grandfather, who inspired the story, and his children.
77) La bohème
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A four-act opera set in 19th-century Paris about a poor poet and his love for a beautiful girl who dies of tuberculosis.
79) Andrea Chénier
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Set before and during the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier is an idealistic poet, caught in the political violence, and Maddalena is the woman he loves.
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