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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera

Fiction
English
83479 Words
Ages 8 and up
316
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The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Christine Daaé travels with her father, a famous fiddler, throughout Europe, and plays folk and religious music. When Christine was six years old, her mother died and her father was taken to rural France by a patron, Professor Valerius. While Christine was a child, her father told her many stories about the "Angel of Music", who is the personification of musical inspiration. Christine meets and befriends the young Raoul, Viscount of Chagny. One of Christine and Raoul's favourite stories is one of Little Lotte, a girl who is visited by the Angel of Music and possesses a heavenly voice. Christine now lives with "Mamma" Valerius, the elderly widow of her father's benefactor. She eventually is given a position in the chorus at the Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier). She begins hearing a beautiful, unearthly voice which sings to her and speaks to her. She believes this must be the Angel of Music and asks him if he is. The Voice agrees and offers to teach her "a little bit of heaven's music". The Voice, however, belongs to Erik, a physically deformed and mentally disturbed musical genius who was one of the architects who took part in the construction of the opera house. He is in love with Christine. [more]

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John H. John Physiology of The Opera

Fiction
English
17979 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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To most of the world (and we say it advisedly,) the opera is a sealed book. We do [more]

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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux

Fiction
English
85384 Words
No Age Recommendation
140
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In which the author of tis singular work informs the reader how he acquired the certainty that the opera ghost really existed The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. [more]

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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera

Fiction
English
80458 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
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Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868[1] – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of [more]

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Anand Bose Twilight Opera

Fiction
English
7118 Words
Ages 10 and up
90
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This novelette belongs to the postmodern genre of philosophical fiction. It consists of an intrusion into a rewriting [more]

Keywords: Fiction, Postmodernfiction, Experimental fiction, Cross, Acrostic, Bible, Numerology, Tropes, Figures of Speech, Metaphors, Metonymy, Idol, Temple, Prodigal Son, Mount Ararat, 666, Jesus Walking on Water, Maxim, Prophetic, Dreams, Money lying in the ground, Victory, Sleep, Santa is early, Spiritual, Staff of Moses, Midwife, Epiphany, Go tell it to the church, Moses, Pharaoh, Pastmos, Maxim ., Solomon, Stinking Rat, Presenceuation, Catharsis, Angst, Ecstasy, Philosophical Etymology [more][Less]

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Henry Edward Krehbiel Chapters Of Opera (Fiscle Part-11)

Education
English
141531 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Considering The Present State Of Italian Opera In New York City (I Am Writing In The Year Of Our Lord 1908), It Seems More Than A Little Strange That Its Entire History Should Come Within The Memories Of Persons Still Living. It Was Only Two Years Ago That An Ancient Factotum At The Metropolitan Opera House Died Who, For A Score Of Years Before He Began Service At That Establishment, Had Been In Various Posts At The Academy Of Music. [more]

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Henry Edward Krehbiel Chapters Of Opera (Fiscle Part-Iv)

Essay
English
64090 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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For The Reasons Set Forth At The Close Of The Last Chapter There Was No Opera At The Metropolitan Opera House In the Season Of 1892-93, But The Fall Of The Latter Year Witnessed the Beginning Of A New Period, Full Of Vicissitudes. With Many Brilliant Artistic Features, It Was Still Experimental To A Large Extent On Its Artistic Side, The Chief Results Of Its Empiricism Being The Restoration Of German Opera In the Repertory On An Equal Footing With Italian And French. It Also Brought The Largest Wave Of Prosperity To The House That It Had Experienced since Its Opening, Yet Ended in the Shipwreck Of The Lessees, And Disaster That Was More Than Financial. The Lessees Were Again Messrs. Abbey, Schoeffel And Grau, With Whom The Reorganized metropolitan Opera And Real Estate Company (Limited) Effected an Agreement, The Essential Elements Of Which Remained unchanged for Fifteen Years; That Is, Down To The Close Of The Season Of 1907-08. The Term Was Five Years. The Lessees Took The House For An Annual Rental Of $52,000, And Pledged themselves To Give Opera Four Times A Week For Thirteen Weeks In the Winter And Spring. The Lessors Paid Back To The Lessees The $52,000 For Their Box Privileges, And To Insure Representations Which Would Be Satisfactory To Them, Reserved the Right To Nominate Six Of The Singers, Two Of Whom Were To Take Part In every Performance In the Subscription List. The First Season Under The New Lease Was Enormously Successful, Abbey, Schoeffel, And Grau Realizing about $150,000, Including The Visits To Other Cities, And A Supplementary Spring Season Of Two Weeks. They Made Great Losses On Their Other Enterprises, However, Especially On Abbey'S Theater (Now The Knickerbocker), And The American Tours Of Mounet-Sully And Mme. Réjane. Like Results Attended the Seasons Of 1894-95, And 1895-96, The Drag In the Latter Instance Being The Lillian Russell Opera Company, Which, Together With Other Ventures, Brought The Firm Into Such A Financial Slough That It Made An Assignment For The Benefit Of Its Creditors, Who Were Forced to Take Over Its Business To Protect Themselves. Chief Of These Was William Steinway, Who Had Accommodated Abbey, Schoeffel And Grau With Loans To The Extent Of $50,000. Under His Guidance As Chairman Of The Committee Of Reorganization, The Stock Company, Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau (Limited), Was Formed, He Becoming President, And Henry E. Abbey, John B. Schoeffel, And Maurice Grau Managing Directors At A Salary Of $20,000 A Year. Ernest Goerlitz, Who Had Been In the Employ Of The Firm For Some Time, Was Made Secretary And Treasurer. He Remained in an Executive Capacity At The Metropolitan Until The Expiration Of The Consulship Of Conried in 1908. Mr. Steinway Got Rid Of The Debts Of The Company (Or, Perhaps, It Would Be More Correct To Say, Changed their Character) By Issuing Certificates Of Stock And Notes To The Creditors. In this Manner Some Of The Principal Artists Of The Company Became Financially Interested in ope [more]

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Henry Edward Krehbiel Chapters Of Opera (fiscle part-IV)

Essay
English
74257 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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The Making Of This Book Was Prompted By The Fact That With The Season 1907-08 The Metropolitan Opera House In New York Completed An Existence Of Twenty-Five Years. Through All This Period At Public Representations I Have Occupied Stall D-15 On The Ground Floor As Reviewer Of Musical Affairs For The New York Tribune Newspaper. I Have, Therefore, Been A Witness Of The Vicissitudes Through Which The Institution Has Passed In A Quarter-Century, And A Chronicler Of All Significant Musical Things Which Were Done Within Its Walls. I Have Seen The Failure Of The Artistic Policy To Promote Which The Magnificent Theater Was Built; The Revolution Accomplished By The Stockholders Under The Leadership Of Leopold Damrosch; The Progress Of A German Régime, Which Did Much To Develop Tastes And Create Ideals Which, Till Its Coming, Were Little-Known Quantities In American Art And Life; The Overthrow Of That Régime In Obedience To The Command Of Fashion; The Subsequent Dawn And Development Of The Liberal And Comprehensive Policy Which Marked The Climax Of The Career Of Maurice Grau As An Operatic Director, I Have Witnessed Since Then, Many Of The Fruits Of Wise Endeavor And Astute Management Frittered Away By Managerial Incapacity And Greed, And Fad And Fashion Come To Rule Again, Where For A Brief, But Eventful Period, Serious Artistic Interest And Endeavor Had Been Dominant. [more]

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Jessica Bateman Life's Soap Opera

Biography & Autobiography
English
500 Words
No Age Recommendation
409
2

Jessica has some family struggles though her life. Her dad cant keep his priorities strait and her three [more]

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HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL CHAPTERS OF OPERA

Music
English
139469 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Krehbiel was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He received a general education from his father, a German clergyman [more]

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