Elements in Musical Theatre – serie
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16 produkter
Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes
The 1840s and the First Opera Companies
Av José Manuel Izquierdo König
Häftad, 2023
291 kr
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During the 19th century, Italian opera became truly transatlantic and its rapid expansion is one of the most exciting new areas of study in music and the performing arts. Beyond the Atlantic coasts, opera searched for new spaces to expand its reach. This Element discusses about the Italian opera in …
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest
From Cosmopolitan Night-Clubs to Stalinist Dogma
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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Since the introduction of modern revues in 1925, the genre faced near-constant political scrutiny in Budapest. Yet by the 1930s, the city had become the capital of Central European cosmopolitan nightlife. The closure of Hungary's borders after World War II ended any hope of reclaiming this …
The Rebirth of Satire in Revivals of European Operettas
Häftad, 2025
301 kr
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Since 1997, revivals have moved operetta away from the nostalgic performance style of the mid twentieth century, returning to its original satirical spirit grounded in ironic mockery of political and social norms and institutions. This Element compares productions of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and …
Singing Zarzuela, 1896-1958
Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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In the last few years, digitizations and reissues of historical recordings of Spanish zarzuela - from wax cylinders in the 1890s to long-play records in the 1950s - have revealed a range of contrasting vocal performance styles. By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a …
Singing Zarzuela, 1896-1958
Approaching Portamento and Musical Expression through Historical Recordings
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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In the last few years, digitizations and reissues of historical recordings of Spanish zarzuela - from wax cylinders in the 1890s to long-play records in the 1950s - have revealed a range of contrasting vocal performance styles. By focusing on portamento, this Element sets the foundations for a …
The Revue in Twentieth-Century Budapest
From Cosmopolitan Night-Clubs to Stalinist Dogma
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Since the introduction of modern revues in 1925, the genre faced near-constant political scrutiny in Budapest. Yet by the 1930s, the city had become the capital of Central European cosmopolitan nightlife. The closure of Hungary's borders after World War II ended any hope of reclaiming this …
Gypsy and the Broadway Musical Madwoman
A Feminist Analysis
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Gypsy, the groundbreaking 1959 Broadway musical by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents, introduced the world of musical theater to one of the most formidable female characters ever to strut onto the stage: Madam (Momma) Rose. She embodies the archetypal "stage mother" whose lifelong …
Gypsy and the Broadway Musical Madwoman
A Feminist Analysis
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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Gypsy, the groundbreaking 1959 Broadway musical by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents, introduced the world of musical theater to one of the most formidable female characters ever to strut onto the stage: Madam (Momma) Rose. She embodies the archetypal "stage mother" whose lifelong …
The Rebirth of Satire in Revivals of European Operettas
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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Since 1997, revivals have moved operetta away from the nostalgic performance style of the mid twentieth century, returning to its original satirical spirit grounded in ironic mockery of political and social norms and institutions. This Element compares productions of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and …
Between Speech and Song
Aspects of Hybrid Voice in Twentieth-Century German Opera
Häftad, 2026
354 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, operatic singing in the German-speaking world remained deeply influenced by the Italian tradition, which implied a lyrical vocal style that prioritised technical precision, tonal beauty, and expressive clarity. From the 1910s onward, composers increasingly and …
Between Speech and Song
Aspects of Hybrid Voice in Twentieth-Century German Opera
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, operatic singing in the German-speaking world remained deeply influenced by the Italian tradition, which implied a lyrical vocal style that prioritised technical precision, tonal beauty, and expressive clarity. From the 1910s onward, composers increasingly and …
A Huge Revolution of Theatrical Commerce
Walter Mocchi and the Italian Musical Theatre Business in South America
Häftad, 2020
317 kr
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In the first third of the twentieth century, South America became the most important market for many European theatrical companies. When Italy found itself in various theatrical crises, Walter Mocchi created a transoceanic theatrical empire, using his business acumen to craft viable solutions. …
"Why Aren't They Talking?"
The Sung-Through Musical from the 1980s to the 2010s
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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In the American musical theater, the most typical form of structuring musicals has been the book musical, in which songs interrupt spoken dialogue and add means to depict characters and dramatic situations. After 1980, a form of structuring musicals that expands upon the aesthetic conventions of …
The Empire at the Opéra
Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris
Av Mark Everist
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of …
West Side Story in Spain
The Transcultural Adaptation of an Iconic American Show
Av Paul R. Laird, Gonzalo Fernández Monte
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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West Side Story first became famous in Spain when the Robert Wise film opened there in 1962, the version remaining popular for decades. Brief international tours came to various cities in Spain in the 1980s, but their presence did not diminish memory of the film, which played a major influence on …
Offenbach Performance in Budapest, 1920-1956
Orpheus on the Danube
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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As a legacy of the Habsburg Empire, performances of Jacques Offenbach's musical stage works played an important role in Budapest musico-theatrical life in the twentieth century. However, between the collapse of the Empire and the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution, political ideologies strongly influenced …
