Da Ponte's oratorio. let the bright seraphim / George Frideric Handel. by Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759

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Da Ponte's oratorio. laudamus te (gloria) / Domenico Cimarosa. by Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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Da Ponte's oratorio. domine deus (gloria) / Domenico Cimarosa. by Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801

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Da Ponte's oratorio. overture / Thomas Arne. by Arne, Thomas Augustine, 1710-1778

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Da Ponte's oratorio. in native worth and honour clad / Joseph Haydn. by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Read, Ernest

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The pursuit of pleasure : gender, space & architecture in Regency London / Jane Rendell. by Rendell, Jane, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Pleasure; Chapter 2: Life in London; Chapter 3: The Clubs of St James's -- Public Patriarchy; Chapter 4: Almack's Assembly Rooms -- Exchanging Property; Chapter 5: The Italian Opera House -- Exchanging Looks; Chapter 6: Life in and out of London; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Racine's Andromaque : absences and displacements / edited by Nicholas Hammond, Joseph Harris.

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Hector's Empty Tomb; Andromaque's Absences; Actions and Transactions in Andromaque; Misrecognitions and Misperceptions in Andromaque; Memories, Fantasies, and Realities of Death in Racine's Andromaque; Andromaque or the Desire to Be Loved; Overcoming the Shadow: Andromaque's Ambivalent Triumph; Translating Liminality: Entrances and Exits in Andromaque since 1667; Andromaque Translated: John Crowne's Racine and the Refugee; 'Principessa infelice!' Andromaque in Italian Opera to 1819; Bibliography; Index…”
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The Design of modern theatre Adolphe Appia's innovations / King's College London. Centre for Computing in the Humanities.

Table of Contents: “…Influence of Classicism (1:15) -- Italian Opera (3:21) -- Richard Wagner's Influence (3:33) -- Scenery in Wagner's Operas (2:27) -- Third Revolt in Traditional Theater (3:32) -- Revolutionary Ideas of Appia (3:32) -- Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's Influence (3:13) -- Success of Eurhythmics (3:32) -- Recreating Setting and Movement (8:08) -- Recreating Music and Eurhythmics (7:26) -- Role of Director David Thomas (2:53) -- Appia's Legacy and Influence (3:23)…”
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The Oratorio, A Documentary with Martin Scorsese / PBS.

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The Oratorio : A Documentary with Martin Scorsese / PBS.

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The politics of opera in Handel's Britain / Thomas McGeary. by McGeary, Thomas, 1948-

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The Oratorio : : A Documentary with Martin Scorsese / PBS.

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Effects of Opera Music from Brain to Body A Matter of Wellbeing / edited by Lorenzo Lorusso, Michele Augusto Riva, Vittorio Alessandro Sironi.

Table of Contents: “…Work and Disease in Italian Operas -- Chapter 8. Operatic Inspiration, Genius and Madness -- Chapter 9. …”
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Performing operas for Mozart : impresarios, singers and troupes / Ian Woodfield. by Woodfield, Ian

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Gaetano Donizetti : a research and information guide / James P. Cassaro. by Cassaro, James P.

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The Castrato and His Wife. by Berry, Helen

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Lucca City of Opera / Star Content Limited.

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The Revolutionaries / Unitel GmbH & Co. KG.

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Nine seventeenth-century organ transcriptions from the operas of Lully / edited with an introduction by Almonte C. Howell, Jr.

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The lively arts of the London stage, 1675-1725 / edited by Kathryn Lowerre.

Table of Contents: “…6From Scaramouche to Harlequin: Dances 'in grotesque characters' on the London Stage7 Music, Magic, and Morality: Stage Reform and the Pastoral Mode; 8Madness 'Free from Vice': Musical Eroticism in the Pastoral World of The Fickle Shepherdess; 9 'Let all be husht': Songs in Praise of Anne Bracegirdle and Arabella Hunt; 10Burning and Stoic Men: Mad Rants and the Performance of Passionate Pain in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee, 1674 to 1678; 11Appreciating Bononcini's Astianatte (1727): An Italian Opera for the London Stage; Part IIIAfterpiece: Comedy, Farce, and Competition; 12 The Right to Write.…”
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