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    • Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
    • By: Alex Ross
    • Narrated by: Alex Ross
    • Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Alex Ross reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence....

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    • A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
    • By: Fred Plotkin
    • Narrated by: Fred Plotkin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values....

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    • My World
    • By: Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright
    • Narrated by: David Dukes
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 05-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In the world of opera, no figure in our time loomed larger than the late Luciano Pavarotti....

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    • A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera
    • By: Ricky Ian Gordon
    • Narrated by: Ricky Ian Gordon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos".

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    • By: Yuval Sharon
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • Opera’s “disrupter-in-residence” director Yuval Sharon has crafted a radical and refreshing book that can act as an introduction to the art form for the culturally curious, or as a manifesto for his fellow artists.

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    • By: Richard Fawkes
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there are as many musical styles as there are composers....

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    • The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary
    • By: Anne Midgette, Herbert Breslin
    • Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is the story of the 36-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, “the greatest career in classical music”....

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    • The Definitive Story
    • By: Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world's most celebrated operas and discover the fascinating stories behind them. Explore the lives of singers such as Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Jonas Kaufmann.

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    • By: John Louis DiGaetani
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-99
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This invaluable primer will introduce the uninitiated to the mysteries of opera and help more experienced fans...

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    • By: Thomson Smillie
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • La Traviata owes its enduring popularity to a superb story of young love and fatal sacrifice, set to music by Italy’s master melodist at the peak of his powers....

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    • A Highly Opinionated, Informative, and Entertaining Guide to Appreciating Opera
    • By: Michael Walsh
    • Narrated by: Michael Walsh
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From opera’s origins in Renaissance Italy to the Who’s rock odyssey “Tommy”, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”, Walsh explores what opera is and what it’s not, what makes a great singer, and why it takes Tristan so long to die....

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    • An Introduction to Opera
    • By: Vivien Schweitzer
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Today, opera is everywhere, from the historic houses of major opera companies to movie theaters and public parks to offbeat performance spaces and our earbuds. A Mad Love is an essential audiobook for anyone who wants to appreciate this living, evolving art form....

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    • 14 opere in forma di racconto
    • By: Vittorio Sermonti
    • Narrated by: Vittorio Sermonti
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-19
    • Language: Italian
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    • Con uno stile raffinato e trascinante, Vittorio Sermonti "spiega al popolo" quattordici opere di Verdi, "il più spudorato genio della musica...

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    • The Key to Escaping Vocal Prison and Making Singing High Notes Easy Again
    • By: Joshua Dennis
    • Narrated by: Joshua Dennis
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In How to Get High: The Key to Escaping Vocal Prison and Making Singing High Notes Easy Again, Joshua Dennis goes through his tried and true method of vocal production that he learned from Master Teacher W. Stephen Smith....

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    • Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
    • By: Michael Rose
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition....

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    • The Untold Story of Rouben Mamoulian, George Gershwin, and Porgy and Bess
    • By: Joseph Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A revelatory history of the operatic masterpiece that both made and destroyed Rouben Mamoulian, its director and unsung hero....

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