Avidly Reads Opera / / Alison Kinney.
“Opera is community, comfort, art, voice, breath, life. It’s hope.”All art exists to make life more bearable. For Alison Kinney, it was the wild, fantastical world of opera that transformed her listening and her life. Whether we’re listening for the first time or revisiting the arias that first stol...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 b/w illustration |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Act I: Hope
- Act II: “Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome!”
- Act III: Losing Our Heads
- Intermission: The World’s Greatest Work of Opera Fan Art
- Act IV: Let No One Sleep
- Act V: Pilgrimage
- Epilogue: Transformation
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: A Crowdsourced Tip Sheet for First- Time Operagoers Afraid of Getting Eaten Alive
- Sources
- About the Author