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(author?) 2004. Books into Film: Death on the Nile. Firsts: the book collector's magazine (June). About the film by John Guillermin, after the Agatha Christie novel. Apter, E. 1996. Acting out orientalism: Sapphic thatricality in turn-of-the-century Paris. In: Performance and Cultural Politics. Ed. E. Dimond. London: Routledge: 15-34. Bartoli, Jean-Pierre. 1996. À la recherche d’une représentation sonore de l’Égypte antique: l’égyptomanie musicale en France de Rossini à Debussy. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 479-506. Musical Egyptomania. Brophy, Brigid. 1988. Mozart the Dramatist. New York: Da Capo Press. Includes a discussion of Mozart's debt to Terrasson's 1731 novel, Sethos. Cueva, Covadonga Sevilla. 2003. Vincent Lleó's operetta: La Corte de Faraón. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 63-76. The comic operetta (first staged in 1910) is at once a parody of Aida and a satire on contemporary Spanish politics. Includes a scene-by-scene synopsis. Dann, Kelly & Ann Murray & Ann Sears & Zephorene L. Stickney. 1999. An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and "The Diadem of Stars." Norton, Massachusetts: Wheaton College. Catalog from an exhibition of this composer's abstract pastels, scenic drawings, and the score from opera based on Akhenaten, monotheism, and pacificism. Frandsen, P.J. 1993. Philip Glass's Akhenaten. The Musical Quarterly 77.2: 241-267. Humbert, Jean-Marcel. 2003. How to stage Aida. Translated by Daniel Antoine & Lawrence Stewart Owens. . In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 47-62. Comparison of two very different productions of the opera, both staged in 2001. Kentridge, Willliam. 2007. Flute. David Krut. Chronicles Kentridge's 2007 production of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Lassell, Michael & Tim Rice. 2000. Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida: the making of the Broadway musical. New York: Hyperion. Navratilova, Nana. 2001. Some Egyptianizing Theatre Decorations at the Stage of the National Theatre in Prague, 1883-1900. Archiv orientální 69.3:419-426. Nichols, Robert. 1984. Truckin' with the Grateful Dead to Egypt. San Rafael: Moonbow Press. NEW 7/08: Richardson, John. 1999. Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's Akhnaten. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
Ringling Brothers. 1911. Ringling
Brothers World's Greatest Shows Magazine of Wonders and Daily Review.
June 19 and 20, 1911. Chicago: Peterson
& Kimball. Official
program for the 1911 season, for shows in Providence and Pawtucket,
Rhode Island on these dates. Includes "Display No. 1 Grand Introductory
Pageant: A Panoramic Picture of Pomp and Splendor of the Ancient
Egyptians." NEW 6/08: Ryan, Donald P. 2007. Ancient Egypt on stage: a brief introduction to two splendid operas. Kmt 17.3:75-85. NEW 6/08: Ryan, Donald P. 2007. Cleopatra had a jazz band: Egypt in early 20th century sheet music. Kmt 18.1:74-80. De Van, Gilles. 1995. Fin de Siècle Exoticism and the Meaning of the Far Away. The Opera Quarterly 1995 11.3:77-94. Republished in the Atti of the second International Conference Letteratura, musica e teatro al tempo di Ruggero Leoncavallo, held at Locarno in October 1993 Viale Ferrero, Mercedes. 1996. Aïda à Milan: l’image de l’Égypte aux archives Ricordi. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 531-550. The first performance of Verdi's opera Aida in Milan, including the stage design, and Verdi's own reaction. Wild, Nicole. 1996. Eugène Lacoste et la première d’Aïda à l’Opéra de Paris. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 507-529. The costume designs by Lacoste for the 1880 production of Verdi's opera in 1880. Whitehead, Clay C. 1978. Mozart's The Magic Flute. International Review of Psych-Analysis 5:105-121. Zibelius-Chen, Karola. Das Alte Ägypten im Klassischen Ballett: Petipas "La Fille du Pharaon." In: Gegengabe. Festschrift für Emma Brunner-Traut. Ed. Ingrid Gamer-Wallert, Wolfgang Helck. Tübingen: Attempto Verlag: 359-377. Ziter, Edward. 2003. The Orient on the Victorian Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Examines the Middle East as portrayed in nineteenth century ballet, opera, melodrama, and other theater arts. WEB SITES: NEW 5/08: King Tut - Salt Lake City, Utah <<http://www.myspace.com/kingtutmusical>>. Web site for a musical that premiered in April 2008; music downloads (fee charged). |
