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Full Score-Thomas Adès? The Tempest one of the most striking and successful operas of recent years is available for the first timeas a beautifully produced limited-edition full score. Featuring the stunning image ?Octopus? by artist Claire Burbridge this unique cased edition includes colour plates of exclusive images from Adès? original handwritten score and sketches. Each copy is signed and numbered by the composer. From the turbulent orchestral prelude with which it begins to Ariel?s stratospheric yet ethereal ?Five fathoms deep? and the radiant quintet of reconciliation inits final act Thomas Adès conjures up a wholly compelling musical world in The Tempest.Responding to librettist Meredith Oakes? clear unfussy refashioning of Shakespeare into formalised rhyme schemes Adès has created a new kind of tonal language that is both direct and communicative but also indelibly contemporary.? Limited to 250 copies with signed and numbered limitation page.? Cased square back and sewn.? Endpapers feature original artwork ?The Firmament? by Claire Burbridge.? Case features original artwork ?Octopus? by Claire Burbridge printed in neon Pantone 809 with scratch-proof matt lamination and high gloss uv.? Black book-block edges ribbon and head

Opera in 3 acts Text: Meredith Oakes after Shakespeare-The Libretto of the Opera by Thomas Ades adapted from the Shakespeare comedy by Meredith Oakes. The Opera was first performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in February 2004.

This opera opened April 23 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performances at both the Opera Comique and Savoy Theatres. The county dames are in love with two poets while the poets are both in love with Patience the village milkmaid. The brigade men don't see the point to aesthetics but decide they had better give it a try to win the women's love.

'Powder Her Face' is an opera by Thomas Ades. It was comissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the 'Everyman Theatre' cheltenham on July 1st 1995 as part of the Cheltenham festival.

Camelot is a popular Musical which also received a film adaptation in 1967. Available here is the Libretto for the Musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The show is based on the King Arthur legend as based on the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King.

Par WHITTALL ARNOLD / DUNSBY J.. Ecrit pour les étudiants et les enseignants, la préoccupation centrale des auteurs est avec les approches du XXe siècle à deux types de musique : que basé sur la tonalité (la langue de Bach, Beethoven et Brahms) et d'autre part, antonal et composition de série, avec Schoenberg et Webern les maîtres représentatifs. Le livre se termine par une introduction à la plus en plus importante remplacée par la nouvelle ISBNject du structuralisme et sémiologie musicale./ Recueil / Opéra