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Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell'arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an unlikely hero, grotesque in his mannerisms, with a bulging belly, occasional hunchback, and an insatiable desire for macaroni. Still, this bulbous misfit took his place next to kings, caliphs, and intellectual heavyweights. Pulcinella's Brood traces the transnational arc of the Enlightenment-era Pulcinella, from his native Naples to Paris, from Rome to London. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics – how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a champion of education. It examines how Pulcinella, along with his transnational brood, was a constant, pervasive presence during the Enlightenment and a squeaky-voiced participant in the ideological and theoretical debates that defined the era. Exploring the diffusion of Italian popular comedy throughout Europe, Pulcinella's Brood proposes that Pulcinella, a grotesque, food-obsessed clown, can be wielded as a historical disruptor and a rich and dynamic source for casting both the Enlightenment and our contemporary world in a different light.

This encyclopedia lists, describes and cross-references everything to do with American opera: works (both operas and operettas), composers, librettists, singers, and source authors, along with relevant recordings. The approximately 1,750 entries range from ballad operas and composers of the 18th century to modern minimalists and video opera artists. Each opera entry consists of plot, history, premiere and cast, followed by a chronological listing of recordings, movies and videos.

«Con un cognome come Pappano non farai mai carriera». Questo si sentì dire agli esordi colui che è oggi tra i direttori d'orchestra più noti e celebrati al mondo. Della determinazione a migliorarsi appresa dai genitori, emigrati italiani a Londra da un piccolo paese della Campania, Antonio Pappano ha fatto una regola di vita che lo ha portato a dirigere nei maggiori teatri, da Oslo a Bruxelles, da Parigi a New York. In questa toccante testimonianza sul potere della musica di trasformare l'esistenza, si volta indietro per tracciare un primo bilancio del cammino fatto finora, tra successi e delusioni, amicizie e collaborazioni, scommesse folli e colpi di fortuna. Assecondando i movimenti dei ricordi, come in una sinfonia, racconta dell'infanzia e dell'emozione della prima opera diretta, del dialogo costante con le note di Wagner, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini fino ai compositori contemporanei, svelando i segreti e le lezioni sempre nuove che riesce a trarre da ogni esecuzione e dalla conoscenza minuziosa delle opere e della loro storia. Apre squarci illuminanti sul «dietro le quinte», le prove e i contrasti prima di ogni spettacolo, in una coinvolgente incursione nella memoria che colpisce per la vitalità con cui ritrae le figure di sommi interpreti, come Plácido Domingo, e direttori del calibro di Daniel Barenboim. L'esito di questo meraviglioso viaggio di scoperta è la voglia di restituire almeno in parte quanto ricevuto, insegnando ai giovani, affinché attraverso la musica possano apprendere la collaborazione, l'ascolto, la capacità di intonarsi agli altri. Dalle pagine emerge immutata la stessa passione di quel bambino che accompagnava il padre al pianoforte e che ha ancora tanto da imparare, perché – scrive l'autore – «non importa quante volte ti chiameranno “maestro”, non devi mai smettere di crescere»

Language was the Italian humanists'stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of these, including two review essays, focuses specifically on the humanist Lorenzo Valla and on his philosophy of language. The third section of the book opens out the coverage of Italian Renaissance cultural history and includes studies of several new texts - among them a description of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, and a call for press censorship - and of the religious culture of mid-15th-century Rome. Le langage était l'instrumet de base des humanistes italiens, la rhétorique leur discipline de fond. Dans ce volume, le professeur Monfasani rassemble ses articles les plus importants sur le sujet. Un groupe d'entre eux, comprenant deux comptesrendus, se concentre spécifiquement sur l'humaniste Lorenzo Valla et sur sa philosophie du langage. La troisième section du recueil élargit le champ de connaissance de l'histoire culturelle de la Renaissance italienne et inclus des études de plusieurs textes nouveaus - parmi ceux-ci, une description de la décoration intérieure de la chapelle Sixtine et un appel à la censure de la presse -, ainsi que de la culture religieuse romaine au milieu du 15e siècle.

Christiane Kruse stellt in diesem Buch fünfzig mutige Frauen aus verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Schichten vor, die sich unter Lebensgefahr in Untergrundorganisationen engagierten, Verfolgte versteckten oder ihnen zur Flucht verhalfen, Flugblätter verteilten oder Treffpunkte organisierten. Ruth Andreas-Friedrich • Hilde Benjamin • Emmi Bonhoeffer • Hilde Coppi • Inge Deutschkron • Marlene Dietrich • Christine von Dohnanyi, geb. Bonhoeffer • Bella Fromm • Mildred Harnack • Liselotte Herrmann • Hannah Höch • Annedore Leber • Freya von Moltke • Käthe Niederkirchner • Margarethe von Oven • Elfriede Paul • Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg • Sophie Scholl • Libertas Schulze-Boysen • Johanna Solf • Gabriele Tergit • Elisabeth von Thadden • Margarete von Trotha • Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg • Clara Zetkin • u. v. m.

A passionate and illuminating memoir by the celebrated Music Director of the Royal Opera House.'Mesmerising.'DANIEL BARENBOIM Sir Antonio Pappano is one of the best known and most celebrated conductors alive today. His deeply held belief in the power of music to inspire and enlighten is the motivation behind this long anticipated memoir. In 1969, decades before he was chosen to conduct the music at the Coronation of King Charles, Sir Antonio Pappano was a ten-year-old boy accompanying his father's singing lessons. My Life in Music tells the moving tale of a legendary conductor who, nurtured in childhood by his parents and their dedicated work ethic, goes on to conduct at many of the most influential opera houses of Europe and North America. Pappano skilfully evokes an extensive selection from his wide-ranging repertoire - operas and orchestral works spanning from Mozart to Birtwistle and Mark Anthony Turnage, as well as art song and chamber music works in which he has performed as a pianist - and makes a compelling case for the potential classical music has to captivate new and wider audiences.

Lange Zeit haben sich die deutschen Universitäten vor allem als Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft gesehen. Erst allmählich und widerstrebend setzte sich die Einsicht durch, dass das nicht die ganze Geschichte ist. Inzwischen sind zahlreiche Untersuchungen zu einzelnen Universitäten, Disziplinen, Wissenschaftlern erschienen. Michael Grüttner legt mit diesem Buch auf der Grundlage jahrelanger Quellenforschung erstmals eine Gesamtdarstellung zu den Universitäten im Dritten Reich vor. Die 23 Universitäten, die am Ende der Weimarer Republik in Deutschland existierten, waren seit 1933 massiven «Säuberungen» ausgesetzt, die sich vor allem gegen Studierende und Wissenschaftler jüdischer Herkunft richteten. Dieser «Machtergreifung» von oben entsprach eine «Machtergreifung» von unten: Viele Professoren traten in die Partei ein, manche versuchten wie Carl Schmitt und Martin Heidegger, sich als Vordenker des NS-Regimes in Stellung zu bringen. Michael Grüttner schildert eindringlich die erstaunlich geräuschlose Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten, analysiert die Hochschulpolitik des Regimes, die sich ganz unterschiedlich auf die verschiedenen Fächer auswirkte, und erklärt, warum die Wissenschaften im Dienst des Nationalsozialismus nicht nur unfreier wurden, sondern mitunter sogar größere Handlungsspielräume besaßen als je zuvor. Ein Epilog zur Nachgeschichte rundet diese souveräne, längst überfällige Gesamtgeschichte ab.