Curating Opera

Stephen Mould

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• This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes that guide them. 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

The Grand Theater of the World

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• Music and space in the early modern world shaped each other in profound ways, and this is particularly apparent when considering Rome, a city that def... Lees meer

Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage

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• After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. In the f... 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 dialogue in opera studies by drawing on ideas from performance s... 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

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

Musicality in Theatre

David Roesner

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• Music continues to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner off... Lees meer

Puccini's La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Kathryn Fenton

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• This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccini's opera, La fanciulla del West as it intersected with both opera ... 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

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

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

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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• Jeongwon Joe examines the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, and what elements set opera apart from... 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

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

Einstein on the Beach: Opera Beyond Drama

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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

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