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From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera?s greatest artists have striven to fuse multiple art forms?music, drama, poetry, dance?into a unified synesthetic experience. The composer Matthew Aucoin, a rising star of the opera world, posits...
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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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Expanse volume 6
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
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"A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
11) 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.
12) 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.
13) Dune
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
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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...
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Chicago Stars volume 9
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Thaddeus Walker Bowman Owens, the backup quarterback for the Chicago Stars, is a team player, talented sideline coach, occasional male underwear model, and a man with a low tolerance for Divas. Olivia Shore, international opera superstar, is a driven diva with a passion for perfection, a craving for justice, too many secrets-and a monumental grudge against the egotistical, lowbrow jock she's been stuck with. It's Mozart meets Monday Night Football...
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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.
19) Ancillary sword
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Imperial Radch volume 2
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
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"What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now everyone is fully civilized -- or should be. But everything...
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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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