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1) Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity
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"Winner of the 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Rice University" Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek literature and culture and fellow and director of Studies in Classics at King's College, University of Cambridge. His many books include Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant...
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Pub. Date
c2007
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Peony is the cloistered daughter of a wealthy family betrothed to a suitor she has never met. In the garden of the Chen family villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from the epic opera, Peony Pavillon. Peony attends the production, watching from behind a screen, but catches sight of a handsome man and begins a journey of love and sorrow.
3) Roseblood
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Sent to the Roseblood Conservatory to study voice, Rune German develops a friendship with Thorn, a mysterious masked boy, but Thorn is torn between his feelings for Rune and his loyalty to his father, the Phantom, who haunts Roseblood and has sinister plans for Rune.
4) Opera cat
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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422 p. ; 24 cm.
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Building a successful career by helping couples to conceive, an early twentieth-century obstetrician makes a risky decision after meeting a talented opera singer whose infertility issues prompt her to leave her husband and pursue a career abroad.
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Imperial Radch volume 1
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren, a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose--to...
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Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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325 pages ; 24 cm
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A reimagining of "The Phantom of the Opera" finds a young woman named Isda, born with the supernatural ability to manipulate memories through song, fighting against an outside world that fears her and threatens the young singer she loves.
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Plaza Janaes
Pub. Date
2021.
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474 pages ; 23 cm
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"Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other--a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their unison is haunted by irreversible events from the past"--
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Libros Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
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color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Lalo the parrot encourages the animals in the Ecuadoran jungle--including the hungry snake Yoli and the aged parrot, Teteté, who knows only an Indian language--to put on an opera until he hears about an old woman who speaks an unknown tongue.
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2016.
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Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls...
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2013.
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242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Tove Monrad, famosa cantante de ópera y ex mujer del aclamado director de orquesta Mattias Lemming, es asesinada en el mítico teatro de la idílica ciudad sueca de Drotningholm. Puck Ekstedt, doctora en Literatura, hija de un prestigioso profesor y casada con Einar Bure, vive en la misma ciudad rodeada por sus amigos y amigas de la burguesía adinerada. Ante el asesinato de Tove, la curiosa Puck no podrá por menos de intentar desenmascarar al...
12) Diva
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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324 pages ; 25 cm
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"New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world....
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