Bestsellers
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Written by: Alex Ross
- Narrated by: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving...
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Opera
- The Definitive Story
- Written by: Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom...
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The History of Opera
- Written by: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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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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Pavarotti
- My World
- Written by: Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright
- Narrated by: David Dukes
- Length: 3 hrs
- Abridged
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This behind-the-scenes look reveals the highs and lows of an international superstar whose impact was felt beyond the opera houses.
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A New Philosophy of Opera
- Written by: Yuval Sharon
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The King and I
- The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary
- Written by: Anne Midgette, Herbert Breslin
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- Written by: Alex Ross
- Narrated by: Alex Ross
- Length: 28 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
This program is read by the author and includes excerpts from Richard Wagner's musical compositions throughout. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving...
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Opera
- The Definitive Story
- Written by: Alan Riding, Leslie Dunton-Downer
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
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. Meet composers like Mozart, Wagner, and Britten, and the librettists with whom...
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The History of Opera
- Written by: Richard Fawkes
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
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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Pavarotti
- My World
- Written by: Luciano Pavarotti, William Wright
- Narrated by: David Dukes
- Length: 3 hrs
- Abridged
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This behind-the-scenes look reveals the highs and lows of an international superstar whose impact was felt beyond the opera houses.
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A New Philosophy of Opera
- Written by: Yuval Sharon
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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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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The King and I
- The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary
- Written by: Anne Midgette, Herbert Breslin
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Gondola
- Written by: Donna Leon
- Narrated by: Antoinette LaVecchia
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than the gondola. The internationally acclaimed "American with the Venetian heart," Donna Leon, tells its fascinating story (The Washington...
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Opera Wars
- Inside the World of Opera and the Battles for Its Future
- Written by: Caitlin Vincent
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Blunt, irreverent, and at times wittily subversive, Opera Wars spotlights opera’s colorful and sometimes warring personalities, increasingly fierce controversies over content, and the battles being waged for its economic future. Drawing on interviews with dozens of opera insiders—as well as...
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Sing for Your Life
- A Story of Race, Music, and Family
- Written by: Daniel Bergner
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air). "One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time." —Pamela Paul, New York Times...
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Stand Up Straight and Sing!
- A Memoir
- Written by: Jessye Norman
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stand Up Straight and Sing!, Jessye Norman recalls in rich detail the strong women who were her role models, from her ancestors to family friends, relatives, and teachers. She hails the importance of her parents in her early learning and experiences in the arts. And she describes coming...
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly
- Written by: Thomson Smillie
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Original Recording
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Madama Butterfly runs the gamut of operatic emotions....
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The Great Minds Collection - George Bernard Shaw and Richard Wagner
- The Perfect Wagnerite - A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring with Wagner's Art and Revolution
- Written by: George Bernard Shaw, Richard Wagner
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This unique book brings together George Bernard Shaw's witty and iconoclastic take on Wagner's masterwork, The Ring of the Nibelungen, with the composer's own essay....