"This book contrasts the buoyant initial intentions of television's policy makers and creative advisers with the subsequent inability (for various reasons) to deliver as intended. The decline in the relationship between television and its commissioned operas is charted through three case studies: Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC), Britten's Owen Wingrave (BBC), and Gerald Barry's The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit (Channel 4) - the first a live broadcast, the second a video recording, and the third a filmed opera made for television."--Jacket.

"Kenneth Morgan, who began collecting Reiner's recordings while still a schoolboy, has consulted printed and archival resources and undertaken new interviews with Reiner's associates, critics, and family. Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet also offers the first close and systematic look at Reiner's recordings, interpretations, and musicality, vividly characterizing Reiner's distinctive qualities as a conductor."--Jacket.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.

First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today, Verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier research. For researchers who have not spent years with the Verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of this giant’s fife and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeed. It is primarily for these researchers that this guide is intended. Its purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer, presenting enough material in annotations that researchers may survey the many myriad directions Verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interested.

Collects X-Force (1991) #20-26, X-Force Annual (1992) #2, Cable (1993) #1-4, Deadpool: The Circle Chase (1993) #1-4, Nomad (1992) #20. Out on their own! With Cable thought dead and Xavier's pacifist dream behind them, the members of X-Force are carving out their own aggressive destiny - beginning with a trip to Cable's space station, Graymalkin. But when S.H.I.E.L.D. and War Machine come looking for answers, things get explosive! The young mutants must grow up fast in battles against the Friends of Humanity and their former teacher Magneto - but Cable's bombshell return sheds light on longstanding mysteries! What is Cable's true identity? Where has he been? And is X-Force prepared to welcome him back? Meanwhile, Deadpool hunts for the secret prize in Tolliver's will. Can he defeat Juggernaut, Black Tom and Slayback to claim it? Plus: The Six Pack meets Nomad, and Adam-X makes his extreme debut!