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Author : Leo Van Witsen
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Design
ISBN : MINN:31951000007298R
Profusely illustrated. Reproductions of paintings and engravings in the period of a given opera's historical setting illuminate the author's interpretations.
Author : Alexandra B Bonds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351380454
Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and practice of stage dress. Distinguishing attributes include an introduction to the performance style, the delineation of the costume conventions, an analysis of the costumes through their historical precedents and theatrical modifications, and the use of garment shape, color, and embroidery for symbolic effect. Practical information covers dressing the performers and a costume plot, the design and creation of the make-up and hairstyles, and pattern drafts of the major garments. Photographs from live performances, as well as details of embroidery, and close-up photographs of the headdresses thoroughly portray the stunning beauty of this incomparable performance style. Presenting the brilliant colors of the elaborately embroidered silk costumes together with the intricate makeup and glittering headdresses, this volume embodies the elegance of the Beijing opera.
Author : Leo Van Witsen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810827433
Profusely illustrated. Reproductions of paintings and engravings in the period of a given opera's historical setting illuminate the author's interpretations.
Author : Ming-Ju Sun
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 048640367X
Splendid collection of 2 figures and 16 dazzling costumes designed for traditional characters in Chinese opera. Lavishly embroidered robes, elegant headdresses, and painted faces for male and female characters.
Author : Sofia Pantouvaki,Peter McNeil
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350098817
Costume is an active agent for performance-making; it is a material object that embodies ideas shaped through collaborative creative work. A new focus in recent years on research in the area of costume has connected this practice in vital and new ways with theories of the body and embodiment, design practices, artistic and other forms of collaboration. Costume, like fashion and dress, is now viewed as an area of dynamic social significance and not simply as passive reflector of a pre-conceived social state or practice. This book offers new approaches to the study of costume, as well as fresh insights into the better-understood frames of historical, theoretical, practice-based and archival research into costume for performance. This anthology draws on the experience of a global group of established researchers as well as emerging voices. Below is a list of just some of the things it achieves: 1. Introduces diverse perspectives, innovative new research methods and approaches for researching design and the costumed body in performance. 2. Contributes towards a new understanding of how costume actually 'performs' in time and space. 3. Offers new insights into existing practices, as well as creating a space of connection between practitioners and researchers from design, the humanities and social sciences.
Author : April Liu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1773270230
For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure trove of early 20th-century Cantonese opera costumes, props, and stage dressings made its way to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. In the first book-length study of this little known collection, April Liu retraces the arduous journeys of early Cantonese opera troupes who began arriving along the west coast of North America during the mid-19th century. A close examination of the costumes and props reveal the moving songs, stories, performances, and ritual practices of early Chinese migrant communities who struggled to make a home in a foreign and often hostile land.
Author : Helena Matheopoulos
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780500515761
The most theatrical of arts inspires the most visionary fashion designers to create extraordinary costumes for extraordinary productions: a glorious book for fashionistas and opera fans. Fashion and opera are natural arenas for collaboration. In 2009–2010 alone, Viktor & Rolf, Miuccia Prada, Emanuel Ungaro, and Christian Lacroix made successful sorties as costumers for operas in New York, Baden-Baden, Naples, and Berlin. In this sumptuous new book, leading figures in the world of fashion— Giorgio Armani, Marc Bohan, Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, Miuccia Prada, Zandra Rhodes, Emanuel Ungaro, Gianni Versace, and Viktor & Rolf—are profiled, together with illustrations of their costume designs. Helena Matheopoulos’s interviews with many of the designers illuminate the journey that led each to the opera and the challenges of working in a demanding new medium. Costume designs for many well-loved operas—including Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Aida, Thai¨s, Agrippina, Cosi` fan tutte, Attila, and The Magic Flute—are featured. The opera houses commissioning the costume designs include La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the The´a^tre Royal de la Monnaie, the Are`nes de Ni^mes, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, and the San Diego Opera, among many others. Hundreds of color illustrations include original designers’ sketches, photographs of the finished costumes, and images of the actual productions, many of which feature breathtaking stage sets as well.
Author : Sally Metzler,Robert Tuggle,Kahren Jones Arbitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Costume
ISBN : OCLC:39325576
Author : Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342970
Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stages of Venice during the seventeenth century. All of the components necessary to opera production are highlighted, from the financial backing, to the libretto and the score, to the singers, dancers, the scenery, and the costumes.
Author : PWAY NGON. YENG
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911221086
In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is a lonely old man mourning his shattered dreams. His granddaughter Yu Sau struggles to take care of him while trying to make sense of her own life in a rapidly changing country. He speaks Cantonese, and she Mandarin - but will they be able to find common ground through a shared love of Cantonese opera? As Yu Sau looks to her family's past to understand her present, she begins to uncover the secrets that went missing along with the old man's cherished opera costume.
Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135578015
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 1217 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195335538
Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.
Author : Molly Rebuschatis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89090073073
Author : Mark A. Radice
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574670325
These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.
Author : Peter Lovrick,Wang-Ngai Siu
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780774844451
Chinese Opera looks at Chinese society through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country. The book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form and tells the traditional stories that are its narrative foundation. Siu Wang-Ngai's extraordinary images, taken in natural light during performances, lovingly reveal the visual excitement of Chinese opera and point to the differences in costuming and presentation that distinguish each regional style and character type.