Michael Steen was born in Dublin, studied at the Royal College of Music, was organ scholar at Oriel College, Oxford and is currently chairman of the Royal College of Music Society. He is also the author of 'Great Operas' (Icon, 2013)
35 Ebooks by Michael Steen
Michael Steen: The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs
Michael Steen's 'Great Composers' was originally …
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Michael Steen: Puccini’s Tosca
Tosca’s première in Rome in January 1900 was nearly disrupted by a terrorist threat to blow up Italy’s King Umberto. Victorien Sardou had written the melodrama for the great actress Sarah Bernhardt. …
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Michael Steen: Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro
Although the story of Figaro’s success in preventing the Count of Almaviva’s seduction of his fiancée Susanna was politically explosive, it was tolerated in the court of the relatively enlightened …
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Michael Steen: Great Operas
With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don …
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Michael Steen: Rossini’s La Cenerentola
Rossini’s La Cenerentola (or Cinderella) is one of the most popular comic operas in the classical repertoire – the timeless fairy tale about the triumph of virtue over snobbery. Its first performance …
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Michael Steen: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
With a wealth of famous tunes and meticulous characterisation, Don Giovanni is an undisputed masterpiece created by Mozart out of a thread-bare fairground gig. The Don – for whom both sexes have a …
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Michael Steen: Puccini’s La Bohème
Puccini’s obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished ‘artistes’ in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby …
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Michael Steen: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor : A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Sir Walter Scott’s story of a Scottish girl forced by her family into an arranged marriage still resonates today, two centuries after it was published. Donizetti’s opera, which premiered in Naples in …
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Michael Steen: Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte : A Short Guide to a Great Opera
A couple of smooth army officers in metropolitan Naples become increasingly horrified as they find that they are losing their bet with a misogynist philosopher. The wager? That their fiancees will be …
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Michael Steen: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
The great Russian poet Pushkin’s novel in verse tells the story of Tatyana, a love-struck country girl who unwisely wrote to the arrogant city-slicker Yevgeny Onegin professing her love. The tale …
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Michael Steen: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Butterfly is a delicate and impressionable geisha who thinks she has married Pinkerton, a US naval officer briefly stationed in Japan. Naive and loving as she is, she does not realise that for him …
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Michael Steen: Britten’s Peter Grimes
Britten’s opera Peter Grimes is based on George Crabbe’s horrifying poem The Borough about early 19th century Aldeburgh, a North Sea fishing town in East Anglia. Its premiere at Sadlers Wells in …
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Michael Steen: Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Even Salieri, the notorious villain of Peter Shaffer’s drama Amadeus, admired Mozart’s comic opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), which was premièred in Vienna a few weeks before Mozart’s death …
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Michael Steen: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
With the ‘Tristan chord’ at the start of Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde, the composer launched modern music. The political refugee, a former revolutionary, was living in Zurich when the lovely …
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Michael Steen: Bizet’s Carmen
The Paris audience in 1875 was shocked by the sexually explicit realism of Bizet’s exotic operatic masterpiece, its ‘verismo’ depiction of low life and brutal passion. But since the disastrous …
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Michael Steen: Verdi’s La Traviata : A Short Guide to a Great Opera
Verdi’s now-popular opera was a fiasco in Venice in 1853, attributable perhaps to the prima donna being noticeably obese, despite apparently wasting with tuberculosis. Soon, however, Verdi’s scandalo …
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Michael Steen: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
The première in 1816 in Rome of Gioachino Rossini’s famous opera was a fiasco comparable to those of Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Bizet’s Carmen. But Il barbiere di Siviglia was soon recognised as being …
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Michael Steen: Verdi’s Rigoletto
From the première of Rigoletto at Venice’s La Fenice in 1851, the Duke’s La donna è mobile caught on with the public and has done much to ensure the ongoing popularity of Verdi’s opera about the body …
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Greg Grandin & James Hannam: FREE Icon Books eBook Sampler
Icon Books is an independent British publisher which publishes popular and engaging non-fiction for adults. We’re proud to be part of the Independent Alliance in the UK, publishing companies who …
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Michael Steen: Mozart
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Beethoven
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Bach
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Handel : The Great Composers
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steen’s book The Lives and Times of the Great Com …
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Michael Steen: Tchaikovsky
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Schubert
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Mendelssohn
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.Extracted from Michael Steen’s book The Lives and Times of the Great …
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Michael Steen: Verdi
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Puccini
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
Extracted from Michael Steen’s book The Lives and Times of the Great …
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Michael Steen: Haydn
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Mahler : The Great Composers
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steen’s book The Lives and Times of the Great Com …
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Michael Steen: Wagner : The Great Composers
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music. Extracted from Michael Steen’s book The Lives and Times of the Great Com …
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Michael Steen: Chopin
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Brahms
Welcome to The Independent’s new ebook series The Great Composers, covering fourteen of the giants of Western classical music.
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Michael Steen: Great Operas of Puccini
This compendium of short guides to all twelve Puccini’s operas is part of the author’s series A Short Guide to a Great Opera. Puccini’s highly-charged music provides an unforgettable experience for …
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Michael Steen: More Great Operas
In volume II of self-standing Short Guides to 25 of the world’s greatest operas, Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, and Great Operas provides another …
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