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Drama
On Poetry
By Glyn Maxwell
Hardback
Published 01-May-2012
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Refugee Boy
By Benjamin Zephaniah
Paperback
Published 09-Mar-2013
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History of Opera
By Carolyn Abbate
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
| RRP: | £30.00 |
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Opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten.
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In Two Minds: a Biography of Jonathan Miller
By Kate Bassett
Hardback
Published 15-Nov-2012
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My Old Man
By John Major
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall.
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Verdi and/or Wagner
By Peter Conrad
Paperback
Published 25-Feb-2013
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Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfort to mankind.
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Under Milk Wood
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Audio
Published 02-Apr-2001
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The 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices", about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
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Verdi and/or Wagner
By Peter Conrad
Hardback
Published 17-Oct-2011
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Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. This book investigates their affinities and explains their mutual mistrust.
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Not Hamlet
By Janet Suzman
Hardback
Published 01-Jun-2012
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Vocal Arts
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Hardback
Published 28-Mar-2008
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"Refreshing and imaginative, this book teaches through enhanced awareness, and instructs through clear and specific exercises" Cicely Berry Written by two voice experts from RADA, this practical workbook and DVD helps actors to fully develop expressive voice skills.
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