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Opera Companies
The Metropolitan Opera 2010 Engagement Calendar
This beautiful, practical and portable daily planner/calendar from The Metropolitan Opera is the perfect gift for the opera lovers in your life. With stunning photographs of Met stars from the past 100 years as well as facts and trivia. The Metropolitan Opera 2010 Engagement Calendar will fascinate, entertain and keep you organized in 2010. Coil bound. $16.99.
Opera for Everybody: The Story of English National Opera
Susie Gilbert
At last a lively yet authoritative history of England's oldest continuously performing arts company. Setting the English National Opera's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front of and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years. Hardcover, 703 pp. $45.00.
 Thank Heaven: A Memoir
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron's appearance in An American in Paris opposite Gene Kelly made her an overnight star, but five decades of unparalleled performances on stage and screen have made her a legend. Thank Heaven is a wry, poignant and entertaining memomir of her life, love and truly remarkable career. Evident on every page are the same qualities that made her a star, most notably her singular ability to illuminate the emotional core of her subject. Hardcover, 275 pp. $32.50.
 The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera
Joseph Volpe
A fascinating, anecdote-filled, behind-the-scenes look at more than
forty years of the highlights, successes, and day-to-day inner working --
all about productions, the divas, and backstage dramas - of New York's
Metropolitan Opera House by Joseph Volpe, the only general manager
to have risen
through
the ranks. The Toughest Show on Earth is the ultimate insider's chronicle
of the art, personalities, productions, and politics of the Metropolitan
Opera in our time. Softcover, 303 pp. $21.00.
 Start-Up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1966-1976
Paul Jackson
In this new volume, Paul Jackson expands his survey of the broadcasts by examining the decade (1966-1976) that saw the move from the old opera house uptown to the current technological marvel at Lincoln Center. An era of historical importance comes to life in these pages. The legendary creations of Tebaldi and Corelli, Nilsson and Vickers, Sutherland and Tucker, of Caballe, Crespin, Price, Rysanek, Bergonzi, Gedda, to name a few, are explored in depth. Including 100 dramatic photographs of performers and performances, Start-up at the New Met will delight devotees of the broadcasts and opera lovers everywhere. Hardcover, 640 pp. $64.95.
 The Ring: An Illustrated History of Wagner's Ring at The Royal Opera House
Richard Snelson
A celebratory history of one of the greatest of operatic events at
one of the greatest of world opera houses, this handsome full-colour
edition charts the story of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at
The Royal Opera House from the first staging in 1892 -- conducted
by Gustav Mahler -- through to the increasingly controversial productions
of the late 20th century. The pictorial record, The Royal Opera House
Collections, includes many images never published before. Hardcover,
182 pp. $87.95.
 Bavarian
State Opera
Various authors
Sir Peter Jonas was "Intendant" at the Bavarian State Opera for
thirteen years. With the summer season of 2006, his tenure came to
an end, and with it, an era in the history of the opera house with
the richest
tradition north of the Alps, an era that will remain unforgettable
for more than just passionate opera fans. Together with General Music
Director Zubin Mehta, he cast the Munich Opera in a new light, artistically,
aesthetically,
socially, and in terms of cultural politics -- even in a way that
reached the so-called man on the street. This luxurious book celebrates
the Jonas/Mehta
era in pictures. Hardcover, 263 pp. $115.00.
 Placido Domingo and the Royal Opera
Christina Franchi, editor
Placido Domingo, one of the legendary opera singers of our time,
is the subject of this first opera book in the Royal Opera House
Heritage Series.
This book illustrates all aspects of Domingo's work with The Royal
Opera: in rehearsal, in performance, on the big screen, and backstage
after galas.
It also includes a selection of family photographs provided by the Domingos.
Softcover, 133 pp. $50.00.
 Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
Johanna Fiedler
If the opera world is full of "intrigue, double meanings, and devious
dramatics," then no place exemplifies this more than the world-famous
Metropolitan Opera". In this wonderfully entertaining account, Johanna
Fiedler draws on her fifteen years as the Met's press representative to expose
the politics, ambition, and oversized egos that have characterized this opera
house's tumultuous history. Softcover, 413 pp. $23.95.
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