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This LearnOutLoud.com category includes biographies of artists, history, and criticism related to these art forms, but does not include full audio presentations of the art works. Many opera and classical music titles are interspersed with musical selections along with their narration. For a full list of dramatic plays see the sub-category 'Drama' under the 'Literature' category, and for a presentation of plays recorded with a full cast see the sub-category 'Full Cast Dramatization' under the 'Arts & Entertainment' category.

There are many audio and video titles about the history of these art forms. Classical music producer NAXOS has published histories of theater, opera, & classical music as well as the lives of the artists in these fields. The Teaching Company has their Great Masters series as well as "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" and "How to Listen to and Understand Opera". Here you'll also find titles on theater like "The Life and Times of William Shakespeare" and "The History of Theatre".


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Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
 
Keyboard Conversations: Mozart and Friends
by Jeffrey Siegel
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Ballet Stories
by David Angus
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Available on: Digital Download

Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most famous of Shakespeare’s plays and is thought to be the most famous love story in Western history.

 
2.
The Story of Classical Music
The Story of Classical Music
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio CD ($15.98) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($15.98)

The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

 
3.
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)

In the world of Shakespeare was friend and competitor Christopher Marlow. Eldest son of a Canterbury shoemaker, Marlowe became famous as a translator and playwright.

 
4.
Euripides
Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)

The greatest century of Greek culture was the fifth century B.C. It is the century of the Persian Wars and the amazing victory of the Greeks over a formidable empire.

 
5.
The History of Classical Music
The History of Classical Music
by Richard Fawkes
Available on: Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years...

 
6.
Lives of the Musicians
Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
Available on: Audio CD ($22.46) | Audio Cassette ($14.36) | Digital Download

This is no stuffy music appreciation lesson. Author Kathleen Krull makes these great artists come alive...

 
7.
WNYC's Fishko Files Podcast
WNYC's Fishko Files Podcast
by Sarah Fishko
Available on: Podcast

From WNYC, New York Public Radio, join WNYC's cultural attaché Sara Fishko for her personal radio essays on music, art, culture and media.

 
8.
Moliere
Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)

France under Louis XIV reached the peak of its power. Its culture bridged the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Moliére was the son of a successful upholsterer who became...

 
9.
Paul Robeson: The Actor
Paul Robeson: The Actor
by Sheila Evans
Available on: Digital Download ($13.99)

Paul Robeson was a validictorian honor scholar, lawyer, writer, author, concert singer, humanitarian, linguist, and actor.

 
10.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)

Poet, novelist and playwright Beckett embodied a radical response to the outrageous events of two world wars.

 
11.
Handel As Orpheus
Handel As Orpheus
by Ellen Harris
Available on: Online Video

MIT Professor of Music Ellen Harris discusses Handel's chamber cantatas written from 1706-23, from a social point of view, exposing the exclusive and secret homosexual society in which they were created.

 
12.
The Life of Mozart
The Life of Mozart
by Edward Holmes
Available on: Audio CD ($35.99) | Digital Download | MP3 CD

Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based upon Mozart's own letters and memoirs.

 
13.
The Life and Works of Beethoven
The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio CD ($21.58) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived...

 
14.
Royal Courts of Europe
Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Digital Download ($4.95)

When Mozart was born, Europe was dominated by wealthy and powerful monarchies, with their kings and aristocrats. What we call 'Classical Music' emerged in the royal courts of these kingdoms.

 
15.
Pavarotti: My World
Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($12.57)

In the world of opera today, there is no one more famous or better loved than Luciano Pavarotti...

 
16.
Indianapolis Museum of Art Raw and Uncut
Indianapolis Museum of Art Raw and Uncut
by Salvador Gonzalez Escalona
Available on: Video Download

Some things are just too good to edit...and some things, well, we just don't have time to edit.

 
17.
The History of Theatre
The History of Theatre
by David Timson
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($28.98) | Digital Download ($23.18)

Here is a diverse and fascinating story of the Theatre, from the first tragedies and comedies of Ancient Greece to the high-tech mega-musicals of the late 20th century...

 
18.
More Famous Composers
More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio CD ($14.38)

The first volume of Famous Composers written by Darren Henley and read by Marin Alsop, the American conductor, won a prestigious Audie in the US.

 
19.
Aida: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
Aida: An Introduction to Verdi's Opera
by Thomson Smille
Available on: Audio CD ($22.46)

Aida is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity.

 
20.
Ballet Stories
Ballet Stories
by David Angus
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)

The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...

 
21.
Masterpieces of Western Music
Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
Available on: Audio CD

From the "Spring" of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring, our appreciation of musical masterpieces can be deeply enhanced by an understanding of what makes them great.

 
22.
L.A. Theatre Works "The Play's the Thing" Podcast
L.A. Theatre Works "The Play's the Thing" Podcast
Available on: Podcast

The Play's the Thing, produced by L.A. Theatre Works, www.latw.org, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed weekly radio show, heard nationwide and overseas.

 
23.
Art and Technology
Art and Technology
by Alan Brody
Available on: Online Video

High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing

 
24.
Composers' Letters
Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Available on: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)

In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...

 
25.
Downstage Center
Downstage Center
Available on: Digital Download

“Downstage Center” offers in-depth single subject interviews with theatre artists, producers and others in the field, addressing their most recent work as well as providing an overview of their careers.


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