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Opera Unveiled 2006
Art Forms, Inc. OV
31 Valencia Loop
Santa Fe, NM
87508
505-466-8222
FAX: 505-466-1908
artforms@prestige-services.com
Desirée Mays is now a director of
Act 1
Performing Arts Tours, a company that takes arts aficionados to see the best
operas, ballets, and concerts in leading capitals of the world. Join Desirée or
Sherwin Sloan, director of the Los Angeles Opera, in St. Petersburg, Italy, New
York, for The Ring at the Met. or in Adelaide, Australia. Full details on the
tours can be found on our web site at
www.act1performingartstours.com
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Desirée's new book, Opera Unveiled 2006, the eighth in the
series, is now available. This new book discusses: Carmen, Cinderella,
The Magic Flute, Salome, and The Tempest.
 You may order the
Opera Unveiled books online
using our secure shopping cart from CCNow. Just select the book you want
below, and you will be sent to the order page.
 If you prefer to send a check via US Mail, print our
ORDER FORM and send it along with your
check made out to Art Forms, Inc., OV to the address on the form.
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- Opera Unveiled 2006
 | Carmen |
| Cinderella |
| Magic Flute |
| Salome |
| The Tempest |
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Opera Unveiled
Opera packs a powerful punch. Music and
drama join to reach out and grab the emotions. The characters become real,
their dilemmas haunting - especially if you know who and what they are.
Since 1999, in her Opera Unveiled series of books, Desirée Mays
has been telling you just what you need to know about each of the five operas of
The Santa Fe Opera's summer season. With grace and wit she
previews the stories of each of that season's operas and supplies you with
unsuspected knowledge of the opera repertoire.
Desirée's Opera Unveiled books continue to be an
indispensable guide to opera, both for friends and for yourself, even after each
season is over.
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As a regular pre-performance lecturer at The Santa Fe Opera - and truly
every librettist's friend - Desirée Mays has won many admirers with her
delightful commentary, her uncommon flair for making even the most
difficult plots accessible, and her gift for communicating opera's
timeless relevance. We are happy she has chosen to share her passion for
opera on the printed page. In this way her words and her humor will be
ever ready.
Thank you, Desirée.
Richard Gaddes
General Director
The Santa Fe Opera
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- Opera Unveiled 2005
| Turandot |
| Peter Grimes |
| Barber of Seville |
| Ainadamar |
| Lucio Silla |
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- Opera Unveiled 2004
| Simon Boccanegra |
| Don Giovannia |
| Beatrice & Benedict |
| Agrippina |
| La sonnambula |
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- Opera Unveiled 2003
| La Belle Helene |
| Katya Kabanova |
| Madame Mao |
| Cosi Fan Tutte |
| Intermezzo |
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- Opera Unveiled 2002
| Eugene Onegin |
| La Traviata |
| La Clemenza di Tito |
| L'Italiana in Algeri |
| L'Amour de Loin |
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- Opera Unveiled 2001
| Lucia di Lammermoor |
| Falstaff |
| Mitridate |
| Wozzeck |
| The Egyptian Helen |
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- Opera Unveiled 2000
| Rigoletto |
| Le Nozze di Figaro |
| Elektra |
| Ermione |
| Venus and Adonis |
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- Opera Unveiled 1999
| Dialogues
of the Carmelites |
| Countess Maritza |
| Carmen |
| Idomeneo |
| Ariadne auf Naxos |
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| The Opera Unveiled books, along with
telling the stories of the operas, include details of their sources, the
lives of the composers and librettists, and above all, provide a sense of
the political, philosophical, sociological, geographical and historical
state of affairs at the time the operas were written. The operas are described conversationally,
and the books are an ideal way either to prepare for going to the opera, or to further
explore the work after attending a performance. |
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