Lentz, Timothy Paul
Summary: In the spring of 2017 David DiChiera's nearly fifty-five year tenure as the guiding spirit of opera in southeast Michigan came to an end with his retirement from Michigan Opera Theatre. The Impresario and civic leader extraordinaire was stepping aside, and the company he founded was in excellent shape with a bright and sustainable future and a beautiful world-class home in the Detroit Opera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Wayne State University Press] 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.1 LENSummary: A spectacular retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom of the Paris opera house; a crazed composer who schemes to make a beautiful young soprano, the star of the opera company and wreak revenge on those who stole his music. Nelson Eddy, the heroic baritone, tries to win the affections of Foster as he tracks down the disfigured "monster" who has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PHAAffron, Charles
Contents: A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : Bel canto -- Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 AFFChee, Alexander
Summary: Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEEdmonds, Lucinda
Summary: Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILSummary: A hilarious and affectionate look at the path to stardom inside the competitive world of grand opera. Weaving together portions of eight acclaimed operas with personal interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, the film explores the choristers' lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTruman, Margaret
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUAbbate, Carolyn.
Summary: Looks at the long history and evolution of opera, discussing the social, political, literary, and economic circumstances relevant to it, as well as the polemics that have accompanied it and the problems that it has faced in the last half century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 782.109 ABBSummary: Documentary film about the 2007 National Council Auditions grand finalists, Jamie Barton, Kiera Duffy, Michael Fabiano, Disella Larusdottir, Ryan McKinny, Angela Meade, Nicholas Pallesen, Matthew Plenk, Alek Shrader, Ryan Smith, and Amber L. Wagner. Looks at the pressures these young opera singers face as they struggle to succeed in one of the most difficult professions in the performing arts....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Opera 2008
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS AUDKolodin, Irving
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. A. Knopf 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.0973 KOLLloyd Webber, Andrew
Contents: Think of me -- Angel of music -- Little Lotte ; The mirror ; Angel of music -- The phantom of the opera -- The music of the night -- I remember ; Stranger than you dreamt it -- Magical lasso -- Notes ; Prima donna -- Poor fool, he makes me laugh -- Why have you brought me here ; Raoul, I've been there -- All I ask of you -- All I ask of you : (reprise) -- Masquerade ; Why so silent -- Notes ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 1987
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PHACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW PhaTruman, Margaret
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TRUWaleson, Heidi
Summary: In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.5 WALHoelterhoff, Manuela.
Summary: A wickedly funny look at opera today - the feuds and deals, maestros and managers, divine voices and outsized egos - and a portrait of the opera world's newest superstar at a formative point in her life and career. In Cinderella & Company, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manuela Hoelterhoff takes us on a two-year trip on the circuit with Cecilia Bartoli, the young mezzo-soprano who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 HOESummary: Cats: The Jellicle Cats gather in their junkyard, preparing for the Jellicle Ball, for this is the night when patriarch Old Deuteronomy will choose a cat to be reborn into a new life on the Heavyside Layer. There are stories, songs, and dances from Victoria the White Cat, Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Grizabella, Jemima, Gus the Theatre Cat, Jellylorum, Skimbleshanks, Macavity, Demeter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ANDWlaschin, Ken.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 791.436 WLASummary: Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS PHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Phantom 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHAForman, Denis
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 782.1 FORSummary: In the first film of the collaboration between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, Don Lope de Aguirre dreams about conquering South America and leads his army on a doomed mission into oblivion. Jonathan Harker embarks on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalize real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman, little realizing that he is about to become involved with a dangerous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HERSummary: Aida was acclaimed at its first performance in 1871 and has grown in stature ever since to become one of the best-loved and most-performed grand operas of all time. Filmed at the Royal Opera House, Elijah Moshinsky's 1994 production of Giuseppe Verdi's extravagant and magnificent Egyptian opera features Cheryl Studer in the title role and a cast that includes Dennis O'Neill and Luciana...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994