Zarzuela Soprano

Download or read book The Zarzuela Companion written by Christopher Webber and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that zarzuela means to Spain what operetta means to Vienna, Offenbach to Paris, Gilbert and Sullivan to London, and the musical to Broadway. Zarzuela is Spain's unique contribution to lyric theatre, a mixture of spoken and sung drama with a complex history extending over four centuries. The Zarzuela Companion is a comprehensive guide to zarzuela's most popular and romantic works written after 1850, with chapters devoted to the major Spanish zarzuela composers, writers and singers. Complete synopses of all sixty works selected are delivered at the level of detail necessary for non-Spanish speakers to follow along with ease. The book also features special sections on the history of the genre, and on the parallel Catalan and Cuban zarzuela traditions. A foreword by Plácido Domingo, a selected discography with current catalog reference numbers, a brief bilingual bibliography and glossary of Spanish terms make this book indispensable for the newcomer and aficionado alike.

Download or read book Cuban Zarzuela written by Susan Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 29, 1927, Cuban soprano Rita Montaner walked onto the stage of Havana's Teatro Regina, her features obscured under a mask of blackened glycerin and her body clad in the tight pants, boots, and riding jacket of a coachman. Standing alongside a gilded carriage and a live horse, the blackfaced, cross-dressed actress sang the premiere of Eliseo Grenet's tango-congo, "Ay Mama Ines." The crowd went wild. Montaner's performance cemented "Ay Mama Ines" as one of the classics in the Cuban repertoire, but more importantly, the premiere heralded the birth of the Cuban zarzuela, a new genre of music theater that over the next fifteen years transformed popular entertainment on the island. Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage marks the first comprehensive study of the Cuban zarzuela, a Spanish-language light opera with spoken dialogue that originated in Spain but flourished in Havana during the early twentieth century. Created by musicians and managers to fill a growing demand for family entertainment, the zarzuela evidenced the emerging economic and cultural power of Cuba's white female bourgeoisie to influence the entertainment industry. Susan Thomas explores zarzuela's function as a pedagogical tool, through which composers, librettists, and business managers hoped to control their troupes and audiences by presenting desirable and problematic images of both feminine and masculine identities. Zarzuela was, Thomas explains, "anti-feminist but pro-feminine, its plots focusing on female protagonists and its musical scores showcasing the female voice." Focusing on character types such as the mulata, the negrito, and the ingenue, Thomas uncovers the zarzuela's richly textured relationship to social constructs of race, class, and especially gender.

Download or read book So You Want to Sing Light Opera written by Linda Lister and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So You Want to Sing Light Opera is a concise handbook for performers, teachers, and directors who want to learn more about the delightful genre of light opera, including Viennese operetta, English comic opera, French opéra bouffe, and Spanish zarzuela. Award-winning opera director and singer Linda Lister brings clarity to this often misunderstood and overlooked category of music with detailed information on how to prepare and perform roles with stylistic and musical sensitivity and to deliver spoken dialogue and choreography with confidence. Lister focuses on the attributes of a light opera performer, light opera singing style, historical references, audition advice, directing insights, extensive repertoire recommendations Singing professionals, teachers, students, conductors, stage directors, coaches, and choreographers will find this book to be an ideal resource for the style. The So You Want to Sing seriesis produced in partnership with the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Like all books in the series, So You Want to Sing Light Opera features online supplemental material on the NATS website. Please visit www.nats.org to access style-specific exercises, audio and video files, and additional resources.

Download or read book Zarzuela written by Janet Lynn Sturman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the most popular form of Spanish entertainment short of the bullfight, the zarzuela boasts a long history of bridging the categories of classical and popular art. It is neither opera nor serious drama, yet it requires both trained singers and good actors. The content is neither purely folkloric nor high art; it is too popular for some and too classical for others. In Zarzuela, Janet L. Sturman assesses the political as well as the musical significance of this chameleon of music-drama. Sturman traces the zarzuela's colorful history from its seventeenth-century origins as a Spanish court entertainment to its adaptation in Spain's colonial outposts in the New World. She examines Cuba's pivotal role in transmitting the zarzuela to Latin America and the Caribbean and draws distinctions among the ways in which various Spanish-speaking communities have reformulated zarzuela, combining elements of the Spanish model with local characters, music, dances, and political perspectives. The settings Sturman considers include Argentina, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the American cities of El Paso, Miami, and New York. Sturman also demonstrates how the zarzuela plays a role in defining American urban ethnicity. She offers a glimpse into two longstanding theaters in New York, Repertorio Espa ol and the Thalia Spanish Theatre, that have fostered the tradition of zarzuela, mounting innovative productions and cultivating audiences. Sturman constructs a profile of the audience that supports modern zarzuela and examines the extensive personal network that sustains it financially. Just as the zarzuela afforded an opportunity in the past for Spaniards to assert their individuality in the face of domination by Italian and central European musical standards, it continues to stand for a distinctive Hispanic legacy. Zarzuela provides a major advance in recognizing the enduring cultural and social significance of this resilient and adaptable genre.

Download or read book Zarzuela written by Vincent J. Cincotta and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive work is a complete reference guide to Zarzuela, the Spanish Lyric Theatre. Includes history, biographies of composers and librettists, plot synopses, discography, bibliography, chronological tables and a full index of titles.

Download or read book Renata's Vengeance written by Abraham De Santander and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many times I have been asked: What is the book about? It is a story based in real facts transcribed from life itself where defenseless children at the mercy of a satanic and pederast father; children claiming for mercy when Sebastian Mairsen Levi sexually and physically abused them, as he abused the children of the county of Jaen, namely Andujar.vhe would rape them to later murder them and inter them in his farm. Renata is the oldest of five siblings born to Esmeralda del Mar, a famous singer, separated from her children due to an infamy carried out by Sebastian, her husband, who made usufruct of her fortune and was the one responsible for the disintegration of her home. When Moises Zaldivar Quinones heard Renata sang and saw she was the spitted image of her mother, he decided to have her trained for a destiny. Renata finally learned where the absent one had been kept for fifteen years. She returned to the Madrid of her childhood. She started to perform at the Moulin Rouge in Madrid, Esmeralda's former stage. Her voice and the resemblance to her mother were the helpers in carrying out her vengeance, bringing a chain of events resulting in the re appearance of her enemies. Moises Zaldivar is murdered and there is a murder attempt on her mother through a fire at her theater. Hence these were the reasons why she took justice in her own hands. She discovered friends among enemies, truth among lies, in what the world knew as: Renata's Revenge

Download or read book Federico Moreno Torroba written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last of the Spanish Romantics, composer, conductor, and impresario Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982) left his mark on virtually every aspect of Spanish musical culture during a career which spanned six decades, and saw tremendous political and cultural upheavals. Federico Moreno Torroba: A Musical Life in Three Acts explores not only his life and work, but also the relationship of his music to the cultural milieu in which he moved.