Opera

61 - 80 of 228 results
Product List
    • By: Willa Cather
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Series: Prairie Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Written in 1915 and featuring lyrical and authentic insights about life on the frontier, this book is the second in Willa Cather's "Prairie Trilogy", following O Pioneers! and preceding My Ántonia....

    Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    • The Learned Musician
    • By: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • This engaging new biography portrays Bach as the living, breathing, and sometimes imperfect human being that he was, while bringing to bear all the advances of the last half-century of Bach scholarship. Wolff demonstrates the intimate connection between the composer's life and his music....

    Regular price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions: Why should I listen to classical music? How can I get the most from the listening experience? Listen to find out....

    Regular price: $13.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.50 or 1 credit

    • Why He Matters
    • By: Harvey Sachs
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Arnold Schoenberg from notoriety, Schoenberg restores him to his rightful place in the pantheon of twentieth-century composers....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    • By: Robert Philip
    • Narrated by: Zeb Soanes
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to today’s mass-produced songs....

    Regular price: $18.71 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.71 or 1 credit

    • A Personal Guide
    • By: Anthony Tommasini
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Tommasini offers his own personal guide to the canon - and what greatness really means in classical music. Tommasini draws on elements of biography, the anxiety of influence, the composer's relationships with colleagues, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time....

    Regular price: $24.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.75 or 1 credit

    • A Musical Wayfarer
    • By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, and provides an insightful biography of the great composer, revealing his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius....

    Regular price: $30.09 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.09 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $11.69 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.69 or 1 credit

    • The Second Baroque Mystery
    • By: Beverle Graves Myers
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Venice, 1734. Castrato soprano Tito Amato, star of Venice opera, has let fame go to his head....

    Regular price: $20.97 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.97 or 1 credit

    • By: Clive Unger-Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Bach, Vivaldi and Handel are the three great composers of the Baroque era, though there are many other well-known figures, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti....

    Regular price: $14.82 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $14.82 or 1 credit

    • By: Thomson Smillie
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 10-26-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • La Bohème is one of the three operas - the others are Carmen and Aida - believed to be the most popular ever written....

    Regular price: $6.08 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $6.08 or 1 credit

    • An Inspector Herman Preiss Mystery
    • By: Morley Torgov
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • It is late March 1868. In Munich, composer Richard Wagner is completing his new opera Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg....

    Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Retelling the Phantom of the Opera
    • By: Alydia Rackham
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A grieving soprano becomes entangled in a web of magnificent music and secret revenge—and the climax will either exceed all her greatest dreams, ...

    Regular price: $3.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $3.99 or 1 credit

    • By: Alex Ross
    • Narrated by: Alex Ross
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • Listen to This showcases the best of Ross’s writing on pop and classical music from more than a decade at The New Yorker....

    Regular price: $24.74 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.74 or 1 credit

    • How the Sounds of the Western World Changed
    • By: Stuart Isacoff
    • Narrated by: Jamie Rennell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The invention of music notation by a skittish Italian monk in the eleventh century. The introduction of multilayered hymns in the Middle Ages. The birth of opera in a Venice rebelling against the church’s pious restraints....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $24.95 or 1 credit

    • A Novel
    • By: Vivien Shotwell
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In late-18th-century London, a young girl takes her first singing lessons with a mysterious castrato in exile. Her life is forever changed. Having learned everything he can teach her, Anna leaves behind all the security and familiarity of home and journeys to Naples and Venice....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • An Introduction to Opera
    • By: Vivien Schweitzer
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Today, opera is everywhere, from the historic houses of major opera companies to movie theaters and public parks to offbeat performance spaces and our earbuds. A Mad Love is an essential audiobook for anyone who wants to appreciate this living, evolving art form....

    Regular price: $19.48 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.48 or 1 credit

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Mark Evan Bonds
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 04-14-22
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • Discarding tired myths about the composer, music historian Mark Evan Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self....

    Regular price: $11.17 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $11.17 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership