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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
A History
Häftad, 2019
787 kr
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Since its inception, French opera has embraced dance, yet all too often operatic dancing is treated as mere decoration. Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera exposes the multiple and meaningful roles that dance has played, starting from Jean-Baptiste Lully's first opera in 1672. It counters …
Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with …
Johann Strauss and Vienna
Operetta and the Politics of Popular Culture
Av Camille Crittenden, Arthur Groos m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
435 kr
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The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety during this period. Camille …
German Opera
From the Beginnings to Wagner
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history. It traces the growth of the humble Singspiel into a vehicle for the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, together with the persistent attempts at German Grand Opera. Seventeenth-century Hamburg opera, the …
Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London
The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance
Av Ian Woodfield, Arthur Groos
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
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In this study, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. It was a period when theatre and opera worlds mixed, venues were shared, and agents and managers collaborated and competed. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first …
Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
The Politics of Halévy's La Juive
Häftad, 2007
491 kr
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This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive (Paris Opéra, 1835) is a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halévy. Hallman explores the politically charged …
Three Modes of Perception in Mozart
The Philosophical, Pastoral, and Comic in Cosí fan tutte
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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This 2004 book is a full-length, scholarly study of what is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera and Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Against the long-standing judgement that the opera uses a misguided confidence in reason to traduce feeling, Goehring's study shows how Cosi affirms …
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Häftad, 2009
821 kr
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This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of …
The Puccini Problem
Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the …
Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the …
Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
Inbunden, 2011
1677 kr
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The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark …
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Häftad, 2009
820 kr
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This book is concerned not so much with the 'prima donna' as with prime donne: a group of working artists (sometimes famous but more often relatively unknown and now long forgotten) and the circumstances of their professional lives. It attempts to locate these singers within a broader history, …
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
Av Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth …
Rossini in Restoration Paris
The Sound of Modern Life
Häftad, 2011
738 kr
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Best remembered for such light-hearted works as Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gioachino Rossini produced a sequence of large-scale serious French operas after his move to Paris in 1824 which overwhelmed audiences with their musical power, and responded to the French Restoration. Rather than presenting a …
Technology and the Diva
Sopranos, Opera, and Media from Romanticism to the Digital Age
Av Karen Henson
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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In Technology and the Diva, Karen Henson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the neglected subject of opera and technology. Their essays focus on the operatic soprano and her relationships with technology from the heyday of Romanticism in the 1820s and 1830s to the …
Situating Opera
Period, Genre, Reception
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and …
German Opera
From the Beginnings to Wagner
Inbunden, 2001
2247 kr
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German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history. It traces the growth of the humble Singspiel into a vehicle for the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, together with the persistent attempts at German Grand Opera. Seventeenth-century Hamburg opera, the …
Rounding Wagner's Mountain
Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
Inbunden, 2014
1928 kr
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Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, …
Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks
Inbunden, 2010
1928 kr
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Through his reading of primary and secondary classical sources, as well as his theoretical writings, Richard Wagner developed a Hegelian-inspired theory linking the evolution of classical Greek politics and poetry. This book demonstrates how, by turning theory into practice, Wagner used this …
Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
Inbunden, 1997
2348 kr
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This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with …
Sentimental Opera
Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama
Inbunden, 2013
1677 kr
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Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to explain the success of operas such as …
Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
The Politics of Halévy's La Juive
Inbunden, 2002
1777 kr
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This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive (Paris Opéra, 1835) is a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halévy. Hallman explores the politically charged …
Johann Strauss and Vienna
Operetta and the Politics of Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2000
1871 kr
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The transformation of Vienna and the Habsburg Empire at the end of the nineteenth century was accompanied by the development of a new musical genre, Viennese operetta, and no composer was better suited than Johann Strauss to express his native city's pride and anxiety during this period. Camille …
Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London
The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance
Av Ian Woodfield, Arthur Groos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this study, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. It was a period when theatre and opera worlds mixed, venues were shared, and agents and managers collaborated and competed. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first …
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785
Inbunden, 2003
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to the aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of …
Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini
Inbunden, 2005
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this unusual study, Emanuele Senici explores the connection between landscape and gender in Italian opera through the emblematic figure of the Alpine virgin. In the nineteenth century, operas portraying an emphatically virginal heroine, a woman defined by her virginity, were often set in the …
Three Modes of Perception in Mozart
The Philosophical, Pastoral, and Comic in Cosí fan tutte
Inbunden, 2004
1727 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This 2004 book is a full-length, scholarly study of what is widely regarded as Mozart's most enigmatic opera and Lorenzo Da Ponte's most erudite text. Against the long-standing judgement that the opera uses a misguided confidence in reason to traduce feeling, Goehring's study shows how Cosi affirms …
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Inbunden, 2006
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is concerned not so much with the 'prima donna' as with prime donne: a group of working artists (sometimes famous but more often relatively unknown and now long forgotten) and the circumstances of their professional lives. It attempts to locate these singers within a broader history, …
Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
Av Victoria Johnson, Jane F. Fulcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1928 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth …
The Puccini Problem
Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2007
1693 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the …
