Italian Opera Since 1945

Author : Raymond Fearn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134419180

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Italian Opera Since 1945 by Raymond Fearn Pdf

First published in 1988. Italy, the birthplace of opera in the late sixteenth century, has in recent decades seen remarkable and vital musical growth, with composers as diverse as Luciano Berio and Nino Rota, Luigi Nono and Sylvano Bussotti, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna and Salvatore Sciarrino. The musical theatre has figured prominently in the work of Italian composers during this period, ranging from operas conceived in a traditional mode to works of a Music Theatre variety, and in style from popular to avant-garde. In this book Raymond Fearn surveys this Italian musico-theatrical phenomenon in the period since the Second World War, examining a wide range of works such as Nono's Intolleranza and Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore, Berio's Passaggio and Un re in ascolto, Manzoni's Atomtod and La Sentenza and Castiglioni's Oberon and The King's Masque, and places these developments within a cultural and theatrical context

Author : David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521466431

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Italian Opera by David R. B. Kimbell Pdf

David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190247966

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Understanding Italian Opera by Tim Carter Pdf

Opera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohème. Shedding light on the creative collusions and collisions involved in bringing opera to the stage, the various, and varying, demands of the text and music, and the nature of its musical drama, Carter also shows how Italian opera has developed over the course of music history. Complete with synopses, cast lists, and suggested further reading for each work discussed, Understanding Italian Opera is a must-read for anyone with an interest in and love for this glorious art.

Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521426979

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Singers of Italian Opera by John Rosselli Pdf

Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.

Author : Harriet Boyd-Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169272

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The Politics of Opera in Post-War Venice by Harriet Boyd-Bennett Pdf

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

Author : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521257328

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The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi by John Rosselli Pdf

Author : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135578015

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Opera by Guy A. Marco Pdf

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 : Naomi Jacob,James Constable Robertson
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000061428362

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Opera in Italy by Naomi Jacob,James Constable Robertson Pdf

Author : Allen Scott
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253014566

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Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition by Allen Scott Pdf

Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Composers
ISBN : OCLC:220933121

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Italian Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108843867

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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective by Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl Pdf

This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianit...) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555536832

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The Autumn of Italian Opera by Alan Mallach Pdf

The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300064543

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Dramma Per Musica by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.

Author : Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190282769

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The New Music Theater by Eric Salzman,Thomas Desi Pdf

Alternatives to grand opera and the popular musical can be traced at least as far back as the 1912 premiere of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." Yet this ongoing history has never been properly sorted out, its complex ideas and philosophy as well as musical and theatrical achievements never brought fully to light. The New Music Theater is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover this still-emerging art form in its widest range. This book provides a wealth of examples and descriptions not only of the works themselves, but of the concepts, ideas, and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world. Authors Salzman and Desi consider the subject of music theatre from a social as well as artistic point of view, exploring how theatre works in culture, and how music works in the theatre. Illuminating their discussion with illustrations from current artists and their works, The New Music Theater both describes where we have been and points the way to the future of this all-encompassing art form.

Author : Mark Gilbert,Robert K. Nilsson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810864283

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy by Mark Gilbert,Robert K. Nilsson Pdf

Italy is a country that exercises a hold on the imagination of people all over the world. Its long history has left an inexhaustible treasure chest of cultural achievement. The historic cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice are among the most sought-after destinations in the world for tourists and art lovers, and Italy's natural beauty and cuisine are rightly renowned. Italy's history and politics are also a source of endless fascination. Modern Italy has consistently been a political laboratory for the rest of Europe. In the 19th century, Italian patriotism was of crucial importance in the struggle against the absolute governments reintroduced after the Congress of Vienna, 1814-15. After the fall of Fascism during World War II, Italy became a model of rapid economic development, though its politics has never been less than contentious and its democracy has remained a troubled one. The second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy is an attempt to introduce the key personalities, events, social developments, and cultural achievements of Italy since the beginning of the 19th century, when Italy first began to emerge as something more than a geographical entity and national feeling began to grow. This is done through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a map, a bibliography, and some 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent individuals, basic institutions, crucial events, history, politics, economics, society, and culture.