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1980réf. 010713Scholar Book Publishers 1980. Book. Fine Condition. Cloth. 324 pages. Folio sized hardcover bound in cream colored cloth and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Not dated in English but possibly published c. 1980. Texts in Chinese with a single paged English summary separately laid in. The binding is tight and crisp with no interior markings. The dustjacket now protected by a Mylar cover is in equally fine condition with no tears or losses. Lavishly illustrated with large full color drawings photographs and paintings as well as a number of smaller black and white images that help even the non-Chinese reader to grasp the changes in style and ornament throughout the history of perhaps the oldest civilization of the world. The reader of Chinese will benefit from the great amount of text which presumably offers a scholarly context for the images The English summary counted nine chapters 160000 words and 834 illustrations including 346 color photographs. Beginning with what looks to be a deer pelt adorned with a necklace of shells this history of fashion concludes with the modern stylings of the twentieth century woman in slacks and knee-length dresses. Scholar Book Publishers Hardcover
réf. 72198Peking China: Peking Opera 200. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Fair. Lavishly illustrated including illustrating on otherwise clear plastic. Text in Chinese and English. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Some pages are disbound but present and suitable for framing. Appears complete. Peking opera or Beijing opera is a form of Chinese opera which combines music vocal performance mime dance and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century. The form was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty court and has come to be regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China. The art form is also preserved in Taiwan Republic of China where it is known as Guójù literally: "National theatre". Peking opera features four main types of performers. With their elaborate and colorful costumes performers are the only focal points on Peking opera's characteristically sparse stage. They use the skills of speech song dance and combat in movements that are symbolic and suggestive rather than realistic. Above all else the skill of performers is evaluated according to the beauty of their movements. Performers also adhere to a variety of stylistic conventions that help audiences navigate the plot of the production. The layers of meaning within each movement must be expressed in time with music. . Melodies include arias fixed-tune melodies and percussion patterns. The repertoire of Peking opera includes over 1400 works which are based on Chinese history folklore and increasingly contemporary life. Types of facial makeup are a special method of makeup in Chinese traditional operas. Since every historical character or characters of a certain type are provided with a particular facial type similar to music scores for singing and playing music such a method of makeup is named "Types of facial makeup". Among all Chinese traditional operas types of facial makeup in Peking Opera have developed into the most systematic and mature one. Historical characters in Chinese traditional Peking Opera are provided with different types of facial makeup. They can reflect the identity status personality and appearance of the characters and therefore can intensify the artistic appeal on stage. As an impressionistic and exaggerated art types of facial makeup in Peking Opera is featured by painting brows eyelids and jowls in various patterns such as bat swallow wing and butterfly wing. Also it is characterized by portraying facial expressions with exaggerated nasal fossas and lipped fossas. The age can be reflected by the height and shape of "Crow's-feet" temperament by the opening and closing of "Chordal furrow" and personality by different patterns of "Glabella furrow". Additionally in the types of facial makeup in Peking Opera there exist some invariable images including white-faced Tsao Tsao and black-faced Bao Zheng. The white-faced image symbolizes wickedness and viciousness while black-faced image stands for equity and selflessness. Due to unchangeable rules in types of facial makeup personalities of a character with certain facial makeup can be seen from the facial colors and figures. As one of the onstage art techniques various types of facial makeup in Peking Opera enable the audience to know a character's personality easily and accordingly get more involved in the appreciation of the performance. Thus types of facial makeup enjoy the fame of "Interior Pictures" which is an extremely crack skill of art exclusively existing in Chinese operas. Patterns of theatrical masks have served as a symbol of China. Nowadays on the market there appear many exquisite and aesthetic commodities and stamps printed with such patterns which are of high appreciating and collecting values. Peking Opera hardcover
réf. 3735785New-York: Samuel French 121 Nassau Street 1855. 8vo. 34 2pp. Original printed wrappers ornamental border; light wear partial splitting along length of spine clean and well-preserved. Scarce American libretto for a mid-19th-century English opera troupe’s rendition of Rossini’s Cinderella performed at the Broadway Theatre in New York. While Rossini’s score is credited the adaptation is Anglicized and adjusted to suit the Broadway Theatre’s stage and audience. Based loosely on Rossini’s La Cenerentola 1817 this booklet was sold or distributed at performances serving both as a libretto and souvenir. This 1855 production starred Miss Louisa Pyne in the title role and Mr. W. Harrison as Prince Felix two leading figures of the Pyne & Harrison Troupe known for popularizing English-language opera in America during the 1850s. The cast list includes comic and magical roles such as Dandini Clorinda Thisbe and the Fairy Queen. unknown
réf. 51-1774San Francisco: 1971. . Poster. 34 x 22 inches. Photography by Pete Peters. San Francisco: 1971. unknown
1977réf. 100072March 5 1977. 1977. Fine. - One-and-a-half pages with over 85 words penned on both sides of 10-3/8 inch high by 7-1/8 inch wide creamy white paper. The Opera director and producer tells Jean Dalrymple that he'd "be delighted to hear Jay Willoughby. However I'm off to San Francisco very shortly for Carmen". He asks if Willoughby could contact him when he's back. He goes on to invite Jean to the "second set of performances May 19-22 - featuring the first performance of Dominick Argento's monologue A Water Bird Talk and an incredible chamber opera written in Theresienstadt concentration camp - The Emperor of Atlantis." Signed in full "Ian Strasfogel". Folded for mailing the edges are very faintly darkened. Near fine. The one-act opera "The Emperor of Atlantis or The Disobedience of Death" Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder Die Tod-Verweigerung was composed by Viktor Ullmann and Peter Kien while interned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. It was not allowed to be performed and the script was not finished until the 1970s. The poet Aaron Kramer prepared an English translation which the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater first performed in April 1977 and which had its New York premiere at the New Opera Theatre of the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 19 1977. The world premiere of Dominic Argento's "A Water Bird Talk" also took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music that same evening. The opera director and producer Ian Strasfogel born 1940 was the author of several plays screenplays and librettos and of a novel titled "Operaland". Strasfogel directed over 100 productions throughout Europe and North America and frequently collaborated with Gyorgy Ligeti Luciano Berio Bruno Maderna Hans Werner Henze and Otto Piene. Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Cary Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jose Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member producer and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. March 5, 1977. unknown
réf. 9979Undated. England 1880s. 4to 4 pp. Bifolium. 87 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair on aged paper with wear to extremities and a spike hole to one corner. Written in ink in a Victorian hand and with three changes in pencil. Docketed at head 'The art of Vocalization'. Towards beginning writes that the subject is one which he has 'studied many years in close connexion with the most eminent Masters of Italy most of whom I may rank among my personal friends and the pith of whose conversations added to my own experience I propose embodying in a few short essays upon the Formation of the Voice'. Gives 'the advice of a tenor singer of some renown in Otello &c literally as I heard it spoken to a student - the author died two years ago at Milan' beginning: 'I know but little of music - in comparison to me you are a professor - my voice was by nature imperfect - my figure is diminutive - yet I have been 1st tenor of some of the best Theatres and with success - mark me if you want to sing .'. Ends with offer to extend his remarks 'to the other Voices' in 'a future number'. Undated. [England, 1880s? unknown
réf. 100368Libretto Opera - Carlo Magno dramma serio - ed. 1817 Teatro Parma pp. 49 - Rara edizione per il carnevale 1817 - - Lingua italiana - Copertina rigida. - Condizioni molto buone - unknown
réf. 125326Libretto Opera - I Visionari: Dramma Giocoso per Musica - ed. 1773 - Testo in lingua italiana. Pagine 52 - Copertina semirigida. - Condizioni buone con segni del tempo come da foto. - - unknown
réf. 52001Musica - Gran metodo elementare per violino composto e dedicato al suo genitore dai f.lli Alday - Torino Racca e Balegno fine '800 - Pag. 149 con alcune illustrazioni. - Copertina rigida - Testo in italiano. - Buone condizioni. - unknown
réf. 95744Spartiti - Il Furioso - Opera in due Atti di Gaetano Donizetti per Pianoforte - ed. 1890 ca. - Formato piccolo. Pagine 110 - Copertina rigida. - Condizioni buone con segni del tempo come da foto. - unknown
réf. 5034628" x 10". Half-length pose by John E. Reed Hollywood signed and inscribed to Joseph Huntley. Very good. Signed and inscribed to African-American usher and autograph collector Joseph Huntley. Bliss 1917-2014 soprano; in various operettas on Broadway. One film credit. unknown
1978réf. 2092902138302100Taimasa Shoji Publishing Department 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 372p Size: 21cm Taimasa Shoji Publishing Department paperback
1927réf. 503491Half-length pose by Witzel Los Angeles signed and inscribed: "To Joseph Huntley - With the best of good wishes Virginia Flohri 1927." 9 1/2" x 7 /12" Very good. Rare. Flohri 1893-1974 opera singer; screen credit "Alibi" 1929. unknown
1827réf. AQ21248London: S. G. Fairbrother 1827. Single leaf broadside. All edges uncut. Some spotting very short tear to one margin. An apparently unrecorded playbill advertising a staging at the English Opera House of William Moncrieff's 1794-1857 popular Monsieur Tonson a two-act farce first performed in 1821 with Mary Anne Goward 1805-1899 in the lead female role. In 1829 Goward married actor Robert Keeley 1793-1869 who also appears on the present bill as part of a 'new musical farce' Before Breakfast! Two further comic pieces were a part of the night's proceedings the performances interspersed with the overtures to Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Figaro. . Dimensions 215 x 350 mm. S. G. Fairbrother unknown
réf. 22384'Bury St. Edmunds. Royal Hotel. Thusday. April 6th. no year'. 3pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf one corner of which has been slightly damaged by the opening of the wafer. Folded twice. The letter begins: 'Mme. Goldschmidt presents her best Compliments to Lady Cullum and begs to express her sincere thanks for the most beautiful flowers she received this morning from Lady Cullum and which certainly do “enliven” her drawing room at the Hotel'. As the weather was 'so unfavorable' she was not able to visit Hardwick that afternoon in order to thank Lady Cullum in person. In the 1850s Lind settled in England with her husband the German composer Otto Goldschmidt 1829-1907. 'Bury St. Edmunds. | Royal Hotel. | Thusday. April 6th. [no year]'. unknown
réf. ria9781800856257_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
réf. 69954Précis d'acoustique physique musicale physiologique par J. Anglas - 1 ed. 1910 - Pag. 382 con illustrazioni - Copertina rigida - Testo in francese. - Condizioni molto buone. - unknown
réf. 69038Early Keyboard instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820 by Philip James - 1 ed. 1930 - Pag. XVIII 153 - 65 tavole f.t. - Copertina rigida - Testo in inglese - Condizioni molto buone. unknown
1959réf. 91828USA: RCA Victor Soria Series 1959. USA LD 6409 Red label shaded dog. Four mono LP records in sleeves in original slipcase box with 24 page text booklet and leaflet with essay by Beecham No visible faults to record surfaces in about Very Good box with some rubbing to corners and split to portion of top edge. The Booklet which was produced by Skira is only in Acceptable condition with the spine strip chipped away has a 4 inch triangular piece missing from the back cover and edge chips and small tears to some pages but all the colour pastedowns of the artwork reproductions are there. Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra with Jennifer Vyvyan Monica Sinclair John Vickers Giorgio Tozzi. A heavy set. 4.0 Jm FRT03top. Vinyl LP. Very Good. Used Vinyl LP records. RCA Victor Soria Series Paperback
2008réf. Q-0813925878University of Virginia Press 2008-02-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Virginia Press paperback
1949réf. SHEL1210New York: Metropolian Opera and The Texas Company Texaco 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original vintage 1949 year not printed poster of the Metropolitan Opera New York City printed on heavy paper board stock. Stated 9th year presented by The Texas Company which would be 1949. Carmen was performed that year and the colorful image on the poster/broadside is apparently of that opera. Very moderate curling / small bumps at corners. Slight browning - perhaps a stain on narrow edges of lower left corner. No pin or nail holes. Very good or better condition and a rather showy piece for display with appropriate presentation/framing. Size: just about 12 1/2" x 19 1/2 Metropolian Opera and The Texas Company (Texaco) hardcover
réf. 39380Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881. 25x 16cm one sheet folded 4 pages decorated titles in frame borders with 4 local advertisments on the margins & a full last page ad for J.L. Orme & Son on fine light weight tinted grey paper in fine condition rare. On Plays with actors listed include: "A Husband in Clover" and "Old Gooseberry". "During the evening the Band of the Governor General's Foot Guards will perform. Ottawa. Free Press Print. 1881 unknown
2006réf. 26735red large landscape over record P: Opera Gallery Singapore 2006. Hardcover. Good. Hadback no D/J in good condition. Opera Gallery Singapore hardcover
1887réf. 56496N.p. Providence 1887. Folio broadside approx. 12" x 4¾" text in a single column beneath the running head light toning very good. Listing the cast of characters for this Irish comedy in four acts a summary of which is appended as well as a list of the Providence Opera House Orchestra and an announcement of two matinees Atkinson's Aphrodite and Peck's Bad Boy. unknown
réf. n0119CASA MUSICALE SONZOGNO DIPIERO OSTALI 1917. 224 pages. AsNew Hardcover Green cloth Gilt lettering. 12.75"x9.25". be7 CASA MUSICALE SONZOGNO DIPIERO OSTALI hardcover
