Alan Riding Books

THE ONE-STOP, SINGLE-VOLUME COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE'S GREATEST WORKS-HIS HISTORY PLAYS, COMEDIES, TRAGEDIA, ROMANCES, AND POETRY A portrait of Shakespeare's life and times: critics, contemporaries, patrons, and the era's vibrant theater. Full commentaries on all 39 plays including detailed plot summaries, a survey of dramatic interpretations on stage and screen, and an introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poetry. Insight into Shakespeare's unique world, including his language, his sources of inspiration, and teh secret of his enduring universal appeal.

Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works still remain fresh and relevant today. Shakespeare: His Life and Works is an accessible and lavishly illustrated celebration of the Bard himself and his 39 plays, great sonnets, and narrative poems. Themes, plots, characters, and language are brought to life with act-by-act plot summaries, resumes of main characters, and in-depth analysis of Shakespeare's use of, and influence on, the English language. Entries also explore Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets in the context of his life and the world of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, and reveal his sources and inspirations, further enriching your experience of his work, be it on the page, stage, or screen. Shakespeare: His Life and Works is the perfect gift for existing Shakespeare fans, and anyone looking to find out more about the work of the world's most celebrated playwright.

A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.

A guide for opera enthusiasts and converts to this ancient rite. It explores 400 years of music drama from late-Renaissance Italy to works from contemporary names including Philip Glass and Thomas Ades. It helps you discover hundreds of classic and modern opera interpretations and learn about the lives of operatic masters.

In the weeks after the Germans captured Paris, theaters, opera houses, and nightclubs reopened to occupiers and French citizens alike, and they remained open for the duration of the war. Alan Riding introduces a pageant of twentieth-century artists who lived and worked under the Nazis and explores the decisions each made about whether to stay or flee, collaborate or resist.We see Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf singing before French and German audiences; Picasso painting and occasionally selling his work from his Left Bank apartment; and Marcel Carne and Henri-Georges Clouzot, among others, directing movies in Paris studios (more than two hundred were produced during this time). We see that pro-Fascist writers such as Louis-Ferdinand Celine and Robert Brasillach flourished, but also that Camus's The Stranger was published and Sartre's play No Exit was first performed-ten days before the Normandy landings.Based on exhaustive research and extensive interviews, And the Show Went On sheds a clarifying light on a protean and problematic era in twentieth-century European cultural history.

Die Oper von ihren schönsten Seiten entdecken Der Saal verdunkelt sich, das Orchester beginnt zu spielen, eine Arie setzt ein – ein Besuch in der Oper ist ein besonderes Erlebnis. Doch wie nahm die Oper ihren Anfang? Was ist überhaupt eine Oper? Und wo stehen weltweit die berühmtesten Opernhäuser? Dieser großartig illustrierte Bildband nimmt alle Opernfans mit auf eine bewegende Zeitreise durch 400 Jahre Operngeschichte und porträtiert eindrucksvoll Epochen, Komponist*innen und legendäre Opernsänger*innen. Ein Opernführer der etwas anderen Art! Die Geschichte der Oper in einem Bildband: - 400 Jahre Operngeschichte: Von den Ursprüngen an den Höfen Italiens im 17. Jahrhundert bis zu heutigen Uraufführungen - Was ist eine Oper? Ein Einführungskapitel erklärt die wichtigsten Begriffe und Bestandteile einer Inszenierung, vom Libretto bis zu den Opernstars - Von Monteverdi über Mozart bis Ethel Mary Smyth: Die bedeutendsten Komponist*innen jeder Epoche werden anschaulich porträtiert - Die Entwicklung als Genre: Stimmungsvolle Kapitel erkunden die Kulturgeschichte nationaler Opern, von der deutschen Oper über die russische, italienische oder Tschechische Oper - Berühmte Opernbühnen weltweit: Großartige Fotografien setzen beeindruckende Opernhäuser aus aller Welt opulent in Szene Ein Opernführer durch den Wandel der Zeit Die Hochzeit des Figaro, La Traviata, Wagner oder Puccini – pure Musik in den Ohren für alle Opernliebhaber*innen. Wie kaum ein anderes Genre begeistert die Oper seit Jahrhunderten mit epischen Kompositionen, emotionalen Geschichten, opulenten Bühnenbildern und Kostümen. Dieser Bildband erkundet alle Epochen der Oper , richtet das Scheinwerferlicht auf die wichtigsten Komponist*innen und Sänger*innen ihrer Zeit und wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen berühmter Opernhäuser wie der Mailänder Scala, der Met in New York und dem Sydney Opera House. Ein faszinierender Überblick über die Welt der Oper, für Einsteiger*innen und Liebhaber*innen. Ein wahrer Schatz für alle Opernfans: 400 Jahre Operngeschichte – Epochen, Künstler*innen und Werke in einem beeindruckenden Bildband