Interviews with the world's twenty-three top orchestral conductors provide the basis for accounts of their training, musical tastes, podium techniques, repertoires, lifestyles, and achievements

Maestro: Encounters With Conductors of Today

Arts & Photography

Matheopoulos, Helena

Music

Harpercollins

Top male opera singers explain how they prepare for a performance and describe their approach to the roles with which they are most closely associated

Divo: Great Tenors, Baritones and Basses Discuss Their Roles

Humor & Entertainment

Interviews with the world's twenty-three top orchestral conductors provide the basis for accounts of their training, musical tastes, podium techniques, repertoires, lifestyles, and achievements

Maestro, encounters with conductors of today

Hutchinson

Diva - The New Generation

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Little,Brown

The most theatrical of arts inspires the most visionary fashion designers to create extraordinary costumes for extraordinary productions: a glorious book for fashionistas and opera fans. Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. In 2009–2010 alone, Viktor &amp; Rolf, Miuccia Prada, Emanuel Ungaro, and Christian Lacroix made successful sorties as costumers for operas in New York, Baden-Baden, Naples, and Berlin. In this sumptuous new book, leading figures in the world of fashion― Giorgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, Miuccia Prada, Zandra Rhodes, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianni Versace, and Viktor &amp; Rolf―are profiled, together with illustrations of their costume designs. Helena Matheopoulos’s interviews with many of the designers illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a demanding new medium. Costume designs for many well-loved operas―including Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Aida, Thai¨s, Agrippina, Cosi` fan tutte, Attila, and The Magic Flute―are featured. The opera houses commissioning the costume designs include La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the The´a^tre Royal de la Monnaie, the Are`nes de Ni^mes, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and the San Diego Opera, among many others. Hundreds of color illustrations include original designers’ sketches, photographs of the finished costumes, and images of the actual productions, many of which feature breathtaking stage sets as well. 195 full-color and 7 black-and-white illustrations

Fashion Designers at the Opera

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

Diva

Victor Gollanz

Based on interviews with male opera singers, this book explores the relationship betweeen each singer and some of the roles with which he is identified. The 22 artists, including Pavarotti, Domingo, Allen and Carreras, discuss their roles in detail, analyse their interpretations from both the musical and dramatic angles, and point out some of the main vocal and technical pitfalls lurking in each role. The author's previous books include "Maestro: Encounters with Conductors of Today".

Bravo: The World's Great Male Singers Discuss Their Roles

Victor Gollancz, Ltd.

Diva, Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art

Victor Gollancz

A visual and auditory celebration of the great tenors features an EMI CD, as well as famous librettos, translations of arias, a discography, a glossary of terms, and hundreds of photos of Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti, Caruso, and many more.

The Great Tenors (Includes 75 Minute CD)

Vendome Press

The past eight years have seen the renaissance of the Diva, with the rise to prominence of a number of female singers who are capable of drawing mass audiences as well as delivering performances to rival those of the stars of the past. The divas analyze their roles, both vocally and dramatically, discuss choices in repertoire and reflect on their lives and careers. Matheopoulos interweaves her narrative with insightful and critical commentary, and peppers her profiles with remarks from conductors, directors, voice teachers, coaches and, on occasion, famous colleagues from the past. She also highlights changes in the opera scene, including the appearance in recent years of many talented Russian singers and the prominence of American-born divas during the last decade. Interviews include 14 sopranos, including Barbara Bonney, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Galina Gorchakova, Catherine Malfitano and Carol Vaness, and seven mezzos, including Cecilia Bartoli, Olga Borodina and Jennifer Larmore.

Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzos Discuss Their Art

Northeastern

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