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The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, brings together all of the published songs that Costello has written with Burt Bacharach, celebrating the three decade songwriting partnership between them. Compiled by Costello, the Super Deluxe Edition includes the newly remastered album, Painted From Memory, along with a new collection, Taken From Life, featuring unreleased songs from the proposed “Painted From Memory” musical score, plus live performances, and a detailed 10,000 word essay by Costello.

Dopo sette anni passati a girare il mondo, il Carosello delle Curiosità torna in Inghilterra; gli artisti della compagnia di Aurelius e Pretorius sono pronti a stupire il pubblico dell’Athenaeum, un vecchio carcere trasformato in teatro che sorge in uno dei quartieri più malfamati e poveri di Londra. Sul palco si esibiranno l’acrobata albina, i gemelli siamesi, la ballerina minuta e il piccolo suonatore di violino dal corpo coperto di peli. Ma l’esibizione più attesa è sempre quella dell’imprendibile Harlequin e del domatore di fiamme, Lucien. All’altro capo della città, Charlotte, orfana e di umili origini, per qualche misteriosa ragione viene accolta da Mr e Mrs Rose nella loro sfarzosa villa; quando i due coniugi muoiono la ragazza si ritrova alla mercé di Odilon, il figlio, nominato suo tutore, che la ricopre di attenzioni indesiderate. Inoltre Charlotte è gravemente malata e secondo i migliori medici d’Inghilterra per lei non esiste alcuna cura..

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations. New to the Fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Brontë's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind this beloved work. Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Now a byword for beauty, Verdi's operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi's operas, in spite of their alleged worthlessness?

Mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza's career always had something of a Spanish flavor to it, even though she excelled in Mozart and Rossini roles and other elements of the traditional repertory. She consistently championed Spanish music, from zarzuela to the songs of Granados and Falla. She also sang the title role of Carmen frequently, bringing her own unique sense of the character to both stage and recordings. A musician of unusual breadth and ability, Berganza was an accomplished pianist and organist and even studied conducting and composition. Her voice, which had an impressive upper extension, managed to cross boundaries as well: in 1960, she was offered the role of Violetta – a mainstay of the soprano repertory – in Verdi's La traviata at La Scala in Milan.