Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera – serie
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Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples
Häftad, 2016
949 kr
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The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. The considerable resonance of 'Neapolitan' opera in …
Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama
Av Jelena Novak, John Richardson
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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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 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both …
Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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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 between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about …
Operatic Archive
American Opera as History
Inbunden, 2020
2197 kr
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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 performance studies and the philosophy of history. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic conceptions of opera, this book argues for opera’s powerful …
Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas
Sources, Performance, Interpretation
Av Ellen Rosand, Stefano La Via
Inbunden, 2022
2888 kr
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Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive …
Masque and Opera in England, 1656-1688
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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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 the mid-1650s to the Revolution of 1688–89. In seeking to address the problem of generic categorization within a highly fragmentary corpus for which a …
National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera
Myths Reconsidered
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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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 the repertoire. It is only in the late 1970s and early 1980s that there is evidence of the successful systematic production of indigenous opera. The …
Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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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 portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his …
Curating Opera
Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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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 study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and processes that guide them. In turn, …
Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands
In Concert and on Stage
Inbunden, 2020
2578 kr
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The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of …
Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands
In Concert and on Stage
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of …
Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2021
2578 kr
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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. The book begins by exploring digital scenography’s dramaturgical possibilities and establishes a critical framework for identifying and comparing the …
Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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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. The book begins by exploring digital scenography’s dramaturgical possibilities and establishes a critical framework for identifying and comparing the …
Business of Opera
Av Anastasia Belina-Johnson, Derek B. Scott
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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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 sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning marketing, audience development, promotion, arts administration and economic issues that beset …
Grétry's Operas and the French Public
From the Old Regime to the Restoration
Av R.J. Arnold
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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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 1813 was one of the sensations of the age, setting off months of tear-stained commemorations, reminiscences and revivals of his work. To understand …
Curating Opera
Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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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 study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and processes that guide them. In turn, …
Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera
Av Wendy Heller, Eleonora Stoppino
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they were intended to be heard: there is something musical about Homer's use of language and a vivid …
English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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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 on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth …
Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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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 Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an …
Grand Theater of the World
Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Rome
Av Valeria De Lucca, Christine Jeanneret
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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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 defined itself as the "grande teatro del mondo". The aim of this book is to consider music and space as fundamental elements in the performance of …
Grand Opera Outside Paris
Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Häftad, 2019
829 kr
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Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In …
Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment
Inbunden, 2012
2818 kr
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What is it about musical theatre that audiences find entertaining? What are the features that lead to its ability to stimulate emotional attachment, to move and to give pleasure? Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End and on Broadway …
Opera as Soundtrack
Av Jeongwon Joe
Inbunden, 2013
2818 kr
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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 opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe focusses primarily on the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces …
Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This new 'cult of mountains' reacted to the symptoms and alienating forces associated with modern culture, defining and reinforcing …
Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures
Av Pamela Karantonis, Dylan Robinson
Inbunden, 2011
3262 kr
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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 opera and First Nations and Indigenous cultures, however, have received far less attention. Opera Indigene takes this subject as its focus, addressing …
Operas of Rameau
Genesis, Staging, Reception
Av Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to …
Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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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 portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his …
Opera Outside the Box
Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2022
2197 kr
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Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and …
Opera Outside the Box
Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2024
667 kr
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Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and …
Genre Beyond Borders
Reassessing Operetta
Av Bruno Bower, Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other …
