Curating Opera

Stephen Mould

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• Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this stud... Lees meer

National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera

Michael Halliwell

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• Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas written before the Second World War have become part of ... Lees meer

Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama

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• The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expres... Lees meer

Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven

Martin Nedbal

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• This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna... Lees meer

The Operatic Archive

Colleen Renihan

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• The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in perf... Lees meer

Postopera

Jelena Novak

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• Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of ... Lees meer

Musicality in Theatre

David Roesner

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• As the complicated relationship between music and theatre has evolved and changed in the modern and postmodern periods, music has continued to be imme... Lees meer

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Caitlin Vincent

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• Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. ... Lees meer

Puccini's La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Kathryn Fenton

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• On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla del West , had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City's Metropoli... Lees meer

Opera as Soundtrack

Jeongwon Joe

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• Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of o... Lees meer

Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven

Martin Nedbal

• Paperback | Engels | Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
• This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna... Lees meer

Grétry's Operas and the French Public

R J Arnold

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• Why, in the dying days of the Napoleonic Empire, did half of Paris turn out for the funeral of a composer? The death of André Ernest Modeste Grétry in... Lees meer

Genre Beyond Borders

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• This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. The chapters on... Lees meer

Opera as Soundtrack

Jeongwon Joe

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• Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of o... Lees meer

Grand Opera Outside Paris

Hesselager Jens

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• Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with a widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention has ... Lees meer

English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706

Andrew R Walkling

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• English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared... Lees meer

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Kathryn Fenton

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• On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla del West , had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City's Metropoli... Lees meer

Einstein on the Beach

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• Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach , had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in... Lees meer

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Caitlin Vincent

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• Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. Lees meer

The Operas of Rameau

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• The present volume, devoted solely to the composer's operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an ... Lees meer

The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni

Magnus Tessing Schneider

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• The Original Portrayal of Mozart's Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart's and Da Ponte's opera Don Giovanni , using as a lens the portray... Lees meer

Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688

Andrew R Walkling

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• Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688 presents a comprehensive study of the development of court masque and through-composed opera in England from th... Lees meer

The Business of Opera

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• The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sh... Lees meer

Opera Indigene: Re/Presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures

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• The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. Within this field, the diverse relationships between op... Lees meer