Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance – serie
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15 produkter
"Don Giovanni" Captured
Performance, Media, Myth
Av Richard Will
Inbunden, 2022
403 kr
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“Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing …
Networking Operatic Italy
Inbunden, 2022
536 kr
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A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.Opera’s role in shaping Italian identity has long fascinated both critics and scholars. Whereas the romance of the Risorgimento once spurred analyses of how …
New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859
Inbunden, 2022
492 kr
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A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world.New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859 explores the thriving operatic life of New Orleans in the first half of the nineteenth century, drawing …
Screening the Operatic Stage
Television and Beyond
Inbunden, 2024
1108 kr
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An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.From the early days of television broadcasts to today’s live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences. But how do these new forms of …
Screening the Operatic Stage
Television and Beyond
Häftad, 2024
337 kr
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An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.From the early days of television broadcasts to today’s live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new audiences. But how do these new forms of …
Richard Wagner's Political Ecology
Inbunden, 2026
448 kr
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A study of the deep history of the Wagnerian environmental imagination. Richard Wagner's operas are bursting with environmental imagery, from tittering birds to flowing rivers to towering trees. In Richard Wagner's Political Ecology, Kirsten S. Paige asks where Wagner's environmental imagination …
Lyric Personhood
On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West
Av Dan Wang
Inbunden, 2025
1898 kr
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A new theory of personhood makes the case that a “person” has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one. What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words …
Lyric Personhood
On the Aesthetics of Being Someone in the West
Av Dan Wang
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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A new theory of personhood makes the case that a “person” has always been an aesthetic category, not just a legal, political, or moral one. What does it mean to be a person? One might think of the possession of certain rights, having the capacity for love, or being self-determined. But if words …
Opera and the Built Environment
Inbunden, 2025
1020 kr
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The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music scholar Laura Vasilyeva considers the remarkable mass construction of opera houses around the world since the 1800s and the no-less-remarkable bids to standardize the …
Opera and the Built Environment
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music scholar Laura Vasilyeva considers the remarkable mass construction of opera houses around the world since the 1800s and the no-less-remarkable bids to standardize the …
Operatic Infrastructures
Materiality and Meaning in 1890s London, Paris, and New York
Inbunden, 2026
492 kr
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An exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London, Paris, and New York.At the end of the nineteenth century, London, Paris, and New York were quintessential modern metropolises and vital centers for opera. In Operatic Infrastructures, …
After the King
Watteau, Spectacle, and the Poetics of Memory
Inbunden, 2026
492 kr
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Musicologist Georgia J. Cowart explores how Antoine Watteau’s late paintings reimagine the symbolic order of absolutism in the wake of Louis XIV’s death.Antoine Watteau has long been known for the theatricality of his paintings, but what that theatricality signifies has remained elusive. In After …
Deathly Pleasures of Form
Opera, Mimesis, Agency
Inbunden, 2027
1648 kr
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Opera offers a rich space in which to think about problems of mimesis—how artworks imitate ideal forms, how humans imitate the things around us, and how words attempt to represent reality.In this book, musicologist and cultural historian Sarah Collins shows how the strange, exhilarating, and …
Deathly Pleasures of Form
Opera, Mimesis, Agency
Häftad, 2027
402 kr
Kommande
Opera offers a rich space in which to think about problems of mimesis—how artworks imitate ideal forms, how humans imitate the things around us, and how words attempt to represent reality.In this book, musicologist and cultural historian Sarah Collins shows how the strange, exhilarating, and …
Singing Sappho
Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera
Av Melina Esse
Inbunden, 2021
439 kr
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From the theatrical stage to the literary salon, the figure of Sappho--the ancient poet and inspiring icon of feminine creativity--played a major role in the intertwining histories of improvisation, text, and performance throughout the nineteenth century. Exploring the connections between operatic …
