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THEATER, OPERA, & CLASSICAL MUSIC
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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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1.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
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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.

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

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

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...

 
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio 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.

 
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More Famous Composers
More Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | 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.

 
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Euripides
Euripides
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio 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.

 
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Masterpieces of Western Music
Masterpieces of Western Music
by Jeffrey Lependorf
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)

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.

 
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Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar - Robert Greenberg
Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar - Robert Greenberg
by Robert Greenberg
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video

Music: Heart, Soul and Dollar with Robert Greenberg speaking at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program.

 
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Moliere
Moliere
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio 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...

 
10.
The Life and Works of Beethoven
The Life and Works of Beethoven
by Jeremy Siepmann
Available on: Audio Download ($21.58) | Audio CD ($24.28) | Audio Cassette

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

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
13.
Pavarotti: My World
Pavarotti: My World
by Luciano Pavarotti
Available on: Audio Download ($12.57) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette

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

 
14.
Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music
by Richard Freedman
Available on: Audio Download ($34.95)

Music is a performative art. It stresses movement through time and engages our suggestive sense of its passing. Music has tendency, it normally invokes goals of various sorts, both near and far.

 
15.
The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
by Perry Keenlyside
Available on: Audio Download ($18.38) | Audio CD ($18.38)

Hear the story behind today's most often performed classical composer's accomplishments, during his short life of just 35 years.

 
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The History of Opera
The History of Opera
by Richard Fawkes
Available on: Audio Download ($23.18) | Audio CD ($23.18) | Audio Cassette

Opera, said Moliére, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...

 
17.
Royal Courts of Europe
Royal Courts of Europe
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio 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.

 
18.
The Best of Mark Twain In Person, Volume 1
The Best of Mark Twain In Person, Volume 1
by Mark Twain
Available on: Audio Download ($1.00)

Studio recorded selections from Richard Henzel's celebrated stage play.

 
19.
Lives of the Musicians
Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
Available on: Audio Download | Audio CD ($24.95) | Audio Cassette

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

 
20.
Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion
Benjamin Zander on Music and Passion
by Benjamin Zander
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

 
21.
Composers' Letters
Composers' Letters
by Ludwig van Beethoven
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette

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...

 
22.
Famous Composers
Famous Composers
by Darren Henley
Available on: Audio Download ($14.38) | Audio CD ($14.38)

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich.

 
23.
CBC Radio: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies in 9 Days Podcast
CBC Radio: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies in 9 Days Podcast
by Bramwell Tovey
Available on: Podcast

Nine conversations about Beethoven's nine symphonies. Bramwell Tovey - Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra - and CBC Radio 2's Bill Richardson consider these mighty works and talk about what makes them so powerful.

 
24.
Paul Robeson: The Actor
Paul Robeson: The Actor
by Sheila Evans
Available on: Audio Download ($13.99)

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

 
25.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
by Sherwin T. Wine
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)

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


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