When The Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught is David W. Barber's third foray into the dangerous realm of musical humour.
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David Barber is a journalist, author, composer and performer who lives and works in Toronto.
Dave Donald works as an art director for a Toronto-based national magazine.
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A GREAT Way To Learn Opera!!,
By "mikey38" (Orefield, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught (Paperback)
I am a music major at college and study opera intensivly. There are some really boring books on the subject, but When The Fat Lady Sings is NOT one of them! All of the facts were there and were presented in a way that kept my attention. I would reccomend this book to the music student looking to brush up on composers, to the people who want to know a little more about what opera is, and to the person who wants something interesting to say at a cocktail party. Anyone can learn something from this book with or without music knowledge. I didn't think a book could be written about opera that is both true to the subject AND funny. Well done Mr. Barber!
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Great Intro to Opera History,
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This review is from: When the Fat Lady Sings: Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught (Paperback)
This book tells all the fun stuff that you don't usually hear about opera composers along with a sturdy structure of opera history. Easy to read and intensely funny, this book's only weakness is that it misses a lot of important composers and concentrates on a couple of unimportant ones. Thus, the reader is left with a feeling like the author got tired of writing and stopped halfway through. If the author added enough information for this book to be more comprehensive representation of opera history, it would a wonderful book for both opera experts and opera neophytes.
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Great starter book for anyone new to opera. Good facts and figures but presented like a human being. Laughed all the way through.
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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE to blame for this whole opera business, look no further than Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), a musician at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Boris Godunov, The Mighty Five, The Barber of Seville, The Beggar's Opera, Domenico Barbaja, Donald Jay Grout, Giulio Cesare, Manon Lescaut, New York, The Oprichnik New!
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IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE to blame for this whole opera business, look no further than Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), a musician at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Giovanni, Boris Godunov, The Mighty Five, The Barber of Seville, The Beggar's Opera, Domenico Barbaja, Donald Jay Grout, Giulio Cesare, Manon Lescaut, New York, The Oprichnik New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 5 pages
- The Magic Flute (The Black Dog Opera Library) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 4 pages
- The Barber of Seville (Black Dog Opera Library) by Gioacchino Rossini on 4 pages
- Boris Godunov in Full Score (Rimsky-Korsakov Version) by Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky on page 70, page 74, and page 75
- Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini on page 123, page 127, and page 129
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