15 results for 'figaro'

The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro...

This volume contains the complete libretti for Mozart's operas "Le nozze di Figaro" (The marriage of Figaro) and "Così fan tutti" (Women are like that) in the original Italian with line-for-line...

Alors que Figaro, le valet du comte Almaviva, doit épouser Suzanne, la première camériste de la comtesse, son maître, sensible aux charmes de la future mariée, décide de restaurer le droit de...

Oubliant les nombreux services que son valet Figaro lui a rendus dans Le Barbier de Séville, le comte Almaviva tente de lui dérober sa fiancée Suzanne.Avec l'ingéniosité de celle-ci et l'aide de la...

Kitty wants to be a superhero like her mother, once she gets over her fear of the dark, but when Figaro the cat needs help she springs into action.

“Most satisfying . . . A highly accessible initial foray into an astonishing, and inexhaustible, subject.” —The Cleveland Plain DealerMozart’s music has enthralled listeners for centuries. In this...

An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and drama come together in opera to make a whole that conveys emotional reality. In...

“A beautifully memorable and unusual story about war and what it does to us” from the bestselling author and founder of Doctors Without Borders (The Independent).In 1919, in a small town in the...

« Il faut le dire: on est bouleversé. Au-delà de ses beautés fulgurantes, l'écriture de Lobo Antunes rend réelle cette idée que nous sommes à chaque instant tous ceux que nous avons été. [...]...

A rowdy reel of a novel that spans a hundred years and one family's far flung roots by the internationally acclaimed author of Fault Lines. Screenwriter Milo Noirlac is dying. As he lies in his...

A major work of scholarship by world-renowned, prize-winning philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, The Republic of Love reveals opera as a profound form of political thought--and an often-overlooked force...

Building on the long-established success of Ethan Mordden's Opera Anecdotes, The New Book Of Opera Anecdotes continues where the original left off, bringing into view the new corps of major singers...

Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a...

« On a voulu être sympathiques, on a acheté des tulipes, ma femme m'a déguisé en type de gauche, mais la vérité est que je n'ai aucun self-control, je suis un caractériel pur... » La pièce Le Dieu du...