Three Loves for Three Oranges

Dassia N. Posner is Associate Professor of Theatre and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Her books include The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde and The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance.Kevin Bartig is Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. His books include Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film and Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky.Maria De Simone is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama (IPTD) program at Northwestern University. Maria also holds an MA from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she was first introduced to 18th-century Venetian theatrical practices.

Uniquely, this volume gives us innovative translations, detailed comparisons and interdisciplinary analyses of all three texts detailing the journey from Carl Gozzi's fiaba, through Meyerhold/Soloviev/Vogak's Divertissement, to Prokofiev's opera. Previous literature mapped some of the changes, but none offered the comprehensive analyses we find in this book. . . . The tripartite structure of the book is the most logical in terms of the material and, together with the cited paired chapters, as well as reading chapters as stand-alone texts, allow a multi-focus use both for the specialist and the general reader. The editors are to be congratulated for their overall innovative approach and for making the work of many Italian and Russian scholars available in English.- F Jane Schopf (Stanislavski Studies) This is a delightful book, as scholarly in its method as it is light-hearted in its approach. It is also unique in that it brings together for the very !rst time in publication history three famous, but not fully excavated and known works by Carlo Gozzi, Vsevolod Meyerhold (together with Vladmir Solovyev and Konstantin Vogak), and Sergey Proko!ev.- Maria Shevtsova (New Theatre Quarterly) A complex and rigorous exploration of the artistic lineages, Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev offers a detailed study of the intertwined creative paths of Gozzi's theatrical fairy tale (fiaba), Meyerhold's divertissement, and Prokofiev's opera. This carefully conceived and elegantly executed collection of essays and originally translated theatrical texts is an immense multidisciplinary historiographic undertaking, which includes insightful contributions of seventeen scholars from the fields of theater and art history, Italian and Slavic Studies, and musicology. . . . Highlighting the importance of multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives in historiographic research, the volume boldly paves the way for further investigations of theatrical genealogies.- Julia Listengarten (The Russian Review)

• Editorial NotesList of Definitions and AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsList of Musical ExamplesPreface: How Not to Die Laughing in a Lethal Time, by Caryl EmersonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Dassia N. Posner, Kevin Bartig, and Maria De SimonePart I: The Fiaba1. Reflective Analysis of the Fairy Tale The Love of Three Oranges, by Carlo Gozzi , by Maria De Simone2. The Love of Three Oranges, Venice 1761: A Theatrical Provocation, by Alberto Beniscelli3. A Short Note on the First Sacchi Company , by Giulietta Bazoli4. Gozzi's The Love of Three Oranges: A New Horizon of Expectations, by Domenico Pietropaolo5. Carlo Gozzi's Reactionary Imagination, by Ted Emery6. A Cultural Pastiche of Fantasy, Satire, and Citrus: Gozzi's The Love of Three Oranges in its German Afterlife, by Natalya BaldygaPart II: The Divertissement7. Love for Three Oranges. A Divertissement in Twelve Scenes, a Prologue, an Epilogue, and Three Interludes, by Konstantin Vogak, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Vladimir Soloviev, by Dassia N. Posner8. Carlo Gozzi in The Journal of Doctor Dapertutto , by Raissa Raskina9. Meyerhold and the Russian Commedia dell'Arte Myth , by Vadim Shcherbakov10. The Miklashevsky Connection, by Laurence Senelick11. From Divertissement to Opera: Two Russian Oranges, by Julia GalaninaPart III: The Opera12. Love for Three Oranges, by Sergei Prokofiev , by Kevin Bartig13. Tsardom and Buttocks: From Empress Anna to Prokofiev's Fata Morgana, by Inna Naroditskaya14. Notes on the Musical Parody in Prokofiev's Three Oranges , by Natalia Savkina15. Notes on the Notes , by Simon A. Morrison16. Boris Anisfeld, an Alchemist of Color , by John E. Bowlt17. Oranges in Leningrad , by Kevin BartigList of ContributorsIndex