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The purpose of this treatise will be to explore Verdi's development of the title role of his opera Rigoletto. The historical timeline will be followed from Verdi's first documented interest in Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse as a libretto...
This treatise examines two of Richard Strauss's and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's operatic trouser roles, Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier) and the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos). The author will discuss the history and operatic traditions of cross...
He Scars of Yggdrasill: A Comparative Study of the Conflict Between Selected Familial Relationships and the Will to Power in Richard Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen
The purpose of this paper is to explore the conflict between power, politics and family relationships in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Selected familial relationships between characters will be analyzed using various method, ...
Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986) was the foremost interpreter of Benjamin Britten's vocal music. Britten composed a majority of his vocal works with Pears's voice in mind: seven song cycles, twelve original opera roles, five canticles, and...
Soprano Mary Garden (1874-1967) was a powerful influence on French operatic style and performance practice in the early twentieth century through her association with composers Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Jules Massenet (1842-1912)....
Tenor Fritz Wunderlich (1930-1966), one of Germany's most famous lyric tenors, died in a tragic accident at the height of his career. Wunderlich's professional career lasted only slightly more than ten years, but he left behind a vocal...
This treatise is meant to increase awareness of a lesser-known work by Joseph Canteloube entitled L'Arada, a cycle of six songs for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Occitan poet Antonin Perbosc. The cycle is unique in that it...
From the peak of the Habsburg dynasty, fin-de-siècle Vienna offered the Viennese bourgeoisie a unique place to broaden their intellectual and artistic creativity. Artists of such caliber as Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg flocked to...
The purpose of this thesis is to provide information and exposure for EMDR therapy as it relates to performance anxiety in singers and other musicians. Since EMDR therapy is a relatively new approach to relieving issues of anxiety, this...
Throughout the history of opera, works of literature have provided inspiration for opera composers. John Harbison's 1999 adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby is a particularly significant and interesting...
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