Isbn: 9780671470876 - the met: one hundred years of grand opera (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Simon & Schuster 1983-10-01 00:00:00 Binding: Hardcover Simon and Schuster Thames and Hudson Metropolitan Opera Guild. 212 illustrations, 41 in color. Dust jacket worn on edges, smudged and torn on back cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 10.6 X 8.7 X 1.5 inches; 368 pages; B&W photographs and illustrations throughout the book. Light fading on front cover's top edge. Minor shelf rubbing on the covers and spine. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

1st Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 368 pages: ill(some col.), facsims,plans,ports. Contents: The audience, its theater and its opera -- Star seasons -- Milestones I: 25th anniversary -- Caruso and the Gatti machine -- Milestones II: the 50th anniversary -- Kirsten Flagstad and the American years -- Milestones III: the 75th anniversary season, Mr. Bing in charge -- Vale atque ave: the move to Lincoln Center -- New house, new era -- The 10th decade, the 2nd century. Subjects: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)Opera New York (State) New York. Opera United States New York. New York (City) Opera Companies Metropolitan Opera to 1982. 1 Kg.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Printing [Stated]. 368 pages. Oversized book, measuring 8-3/4 inches by 11 inches. DJ is price clipped. Minor page soiling. Contains 212 illustrations, 41 in color. Contains Acknowledgments, Notes on the Text; Sources of Illustrations; and an Index. Topics covered include The Audience, The Theater, and its Opera; Star Seasons; Milestones 1: 25th Anniversary. The Joys and Pains, The Politics and Personalities of a Great Season; Caruso and the Gatti Machine; Milestones II; The Fiftieth Anniversary, Delights amidst Despair; Kirsten Flagstad and the American Years; Milestones III: The Seventy-fifth Anniversary Season, Mr. Bing in Charge; Vale atque Ave: The move to Lincoln Center; New House, New Era; and The Tenth Decade, The Second Century. Also contains Notes on the Text; Sources of Illustrations; and an Index. From 1952 to 1975, Martin Mayer critiqued classical recordings for Esquire, and from 1985 to 2004 he was the New York critic for Opera magazine. He wrote "The Met: One Hundred Years of Grand Opera" (1983), reviewed concerts and opera for Musical America magazine, and wrote articles for High Fidelity and Opera News. In The Times magazine, he profiled Igor Stravinsky, Herbert von Karajan, George Szell, Rudolf Bing and Marilyn Horne. His article on Andrés Segovia and his Spanish guitar vibrated with insights: "Like Dolmetsch (who resurrected the recorder), Landowska (who restored the harpsichord) and Casals (whose revisions in the technique of the cello made Bach's suites for that instrument playable in an age of exact intonation), Segovia in effect invented an instrument." This is the story of the end of the old house and the rise of Lincoln Center, the arrival of television and the immense growth of the operatic constituency in America. After a hundred crowded years of incident and personality, the Met flourishes not only in memories, but in bright modern performance--and this book tells the story. Derived from a Kirkus review: This was published on the day of the Metropolitan Opera's 100th-anniversary gala concert: a splendiferously illustrated history of the company--with a wry, informal text that manages to touch on finance, real estate, and administration as well as conductors, singers, and productions. Author/music-critic Mayer moves easily through the decades--from the building of the original opera-house and the first seasons to the Golden Age; from the Gatti years to those of Johnson and Bing. He celebrates the dozens of superstar singers, sometimes finding himself reduced to lists--but reserves the most enshrining attention for Caruso and Flagstad. He gives a lively sense of Gatti's famed management, scorns that of Johnson: "Performances were disfigured, and voices damaged, by resolute miscasting. . .Johnson knew little about running an opera house, and he never learned." As for Mr. Bing, his "feeling of cultural superiority to the press was shallowly rooted in his own personality and in traditional European attitudes toward America, not reality." And, with a nice balance between information and anecdote (drawing on a wide array of sources), there's treatment of the opera's social element, the press, the unions, the board, the orchestra, the Lincoln Center move, the City Opera rivalry, the conductor problems--all enlivened by bits of comment, especially in recent decades. An agreeable, solid survey, with fabulous, fascinating glimpses of bygone faces offstage and on.…