Mamontov S Private Opera

Author : Olga Haldey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253004345

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Mamontov's Private Opera by Olga Haldey Pdf

The Moscow Private Opera, founded, sponsored, and directed by Savva Mamontov (1841--1918), was one of Russia's most important theatrical institutions at the dawn of the age of modernism. It presented the Moscow premieres of Lohengrin, La Bohà ̈me, and Khovanshchina, among others; launched the career of Feodor Chaliapin; gave Sergei Rachmaninov his first conducting job; employed Vasily Polenov, Victor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Mikhail Vrubel as set designers; and served as a model for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Part commercial enterprise, part experimental studio, Mamontov's company revolutionized opera directing and design, and trained a generation of opera singers. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished primary sources and evidence from art and theater history, Olga Haldey paints a fascinating portrait of a railway tycoon turned artiste and his pioneering opera company.

Author : Marina Frolova-Walker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691185514

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Rimsky-Korsakov and His World by Marina Frolova-Walker Pdf

A rare look at the life and music of renowned Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov During his lifetime, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a composer whose work had great influence not only in his native Russia but also internationally. While he remains well-known in Russia—where many of his fifteen operas and various orchestral pieces are still in the standard repertoire—very little of his work is performed in the West today beyond Scheherezade and arrangements of The Flight of the Bumblebee. In Western writings, he appears mainly in the context of the Mighty Handful, a group of five Russian composers to which he belonged at the outset of his career. Rimsky-Korsakov and His World finally gives the composer center stage and due attention. In this collection, Rimsky-Korsakov’s major operas, The Snow Maiden, Mozart and Salieri, and The Golden Cockerel, receive multifaceted exploration and are carefully contextualized within the wider Russian culture of the era. The discussion of these operas is accompanied and enriched by the composer’s letters to Nadezhda Zabela, the distinguished soprano for whom he wrote several leading roles. Other essays look at more general aspects of Rimsky-Korsakov’s work and examine his far-reaching legacy as a professor of composition and orchestration, including his impact on his most famous pupil Igor Stravinsky. The contributors are Lidia Ader, Leon Botstein, Emily Frey, Marina Frolova-Walker, Adalyat Issiyeva, Simon Morrison, Anna Nisnevich, Olga Panteleeva, and Yaroslav Timofeev. The Bard Music Festival Bard Music Festival 2018 Rimsky-Korsakov and His World Bard College August 10–12 and August 17–19, 2018

Author : A. Fishzon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137023452

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Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera by A. Fishzon Pdf

In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense approach to public life and private expression - the 'melodramatic imagination' - is at the center of this study. Previously, scholars have only indirectly addressed the everyday appropriation of melodramatic aesthetics in Russia, choosing to concentrate on canonical texts and producers of mass culture. Collective fantasies and affects are daunting objects of study, difficult to render, and almost impossible to prove empirically. Music and art historians, with some notable exceptions, have been reluctant to discuss reception for similar reasons. By analyzing the artifacts and practices of a commercialized opera culture, author Anna Fishzon provides a solution to these challenges. Her focus on celebrity and fandom as features of the melodramatic imagination helps illuminate Russian modernity and provides the groundwork for comparative studies of fin-de-siècle European popular and high culture, selfhood, authenticity, and political theater.

Author : Oskar von Riesemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317430643

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Rachmaninoff's Recollections by Oskar von Riesemann Pdf

This book, first published in 1934, contains the recollections of the varied and coloured life of a great pianist and composer, who is one of the most striking figures of the musical world. Rachmaninoff dictated his memoires to the author of this book, and much of the story is therefore told in the first person. The final chapter is Riesemann’s own contribution. It is an estimate of Rachmaninoff’s qualities as composer; it shows knowledge of all his more important works; and it shows discrimination. The whole book is an authoritative and interesting study of a popular artist.

Author : John Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527579057

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The Political in Rimsky-Korsakov's Operas by John Nelson Pdf

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, opposition to the tsarist autocracy grew in Russia. To counter this, Tsar Nicholas I instigated the Official Nationality Decree of 1833 basing this on “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality”. Subsequent tsars who enforced repression, censorship and the suppression of the peripheral counties of the Empire upheld this policy. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov questioned whether this “Official Nationality” truly represented the views of the Russian people, and, through his operas, he demonstrated that the interpretation of these three premises was questionable. This book examines each of these facets of nationality and how Rimsky-Korsakov presents them in a new light in his operas. It also shows how the composer’s socio-political views, supported by his use of politically radical Russian writers, and as expressed through his correspondence and discussions with family and colleagues, clearly demonstrate that his political ideology, as well as his opposition to the tsar and his bureaucracy, gave a new interpretation of Russian “nationality”.

Author : Sergei Bertensson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787204348

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Sergei Rachmaninoff by Sergei Bertensson Pdf

Throughout his career as composer, conductor, and pianist, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) was an intensely private individual. When Bertensson and Leyda’s 1956 biography appeared, it lifted the veil of secrecy from several areas of Rachmaninoff’s life, especially concerning the genesis of his compositions and how their critical reception affected him. The authors consulted a number of people who knew Rachmaninoff, who worked with him, and who corresponded with him. Even with the availability of such sources and full access to the Rachmaninoff Archive at the Library of Congress, Bertensson and Leyda were tireless in their pursuit of privately held documents, particularly correspondence. The wonderfully engaging product of their labors masterfully incorporates primary materials into the narrative. Almost half a century after it first appeared, this volume remains essential reading. Sergei Bertensson, who knew Rachmaninoff, published other works on music and film, often with a documentary emphasis.

Author : Caryl Emerson,Robert William Oldani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521369762

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Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov by Caryl Emerson,Robert William Oldani Pdf

Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.

Author : Felicia Hardison Londré,Margot Berthold
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826411673

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The History of World Theater by Felicia Hardison Londré,Margot Berthold Pdf

Felicia Londre explores the world of theater as diverse as the Entertainments of the Stuart court and Arthur Miller directing Chinese actors at the Beijing People's Art Theater in "Death of a Salesman." Londre examines: Restoration comedies; the Comedie Francais; Italian "opera seria"; plays of the "Surm und Grand" movement; Russian, French, and Spanish Romantic dramas; American minstrel shows; Brecht and dialectical theater; Dighilev; Dada; Expressionism, Theater of the Absurd productions, and other forms of experimental theater of the late-20th century.>

Author : Richard Langham Smith,Clair Rowden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108481618

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Carmen Abroad by Richard Langham Smith,Clair Rowden Pdf

A transnational history of the performance, reception, translation, adaptation and appropriation of Bizet's Carmen from 1875 to 1945. This volume explores how Bizet's opera swiftly travelled the globe, and how the story, the music, the staging and the singers appealed to audiences in diverse contexts.

Author : Hanna Chuchvaha
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301405

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Art Periodical Culture in Late Imperial Russia (1898-1917) by Hanna Chuchvaha Pdf

Art Periodical Culture in Late Imperial Russia (1898-1917). Print Modernism in Transition offers a detailed exploration of the major Modernist art periodicals in late imperial Russia, the World of Art (Mir Iskusstva, 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece (Zolotoe runo, 1906-1909) and Apollo (Apollon, 1909-1917).

Author : Edith W. Clowes,Samuel D. Kassow,James L. West
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691225265

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Between Tsar and People by Edith W. Clowes,Samuel D. Kassow,James L. West Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia describes the struggle of new elites to take up a "middle position" in society--between tsar and people. During this period autonomous social and cultural institutions, pluralistic political life, and a dynamic economy all seemed to be emerging: Russia was experiencing a sense of social possibility akin to that which Gorbachev wishes to reanimate in the Soviet Union. But then, as now, diversity had as its price the potential for political disorder and social dissolution. Analyzing the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, this book reveals the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times. The contributors are Harley Balzer, John E. Bowlt, Joseph Bradley, William C. Brumfield, Edith W. Clowes, James M. Curtis, Ben Eklof, Gregory L. Freeze, Abbott Gleason, Samuel D. Kassow, Mary Louise Loe, Louise McReynolds, Sidney Monas, John O. Norman, Daniel T. Orlovsky, Thomas C. Owen, Alfred Rieber, Bernice G. Rosenthal, Christine Ruane, Charles E. Timberlake, William Wagner, and James L. West. Samuel D. Kassow has written a conclusion to the volume.

Author : Evdokia Belova,E. Bocharnikova
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781646999637

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The great history of Russian ballet by Evdokia Belova,E. Bocharnikova Pdf

Although the techniques of classical ballets were invented by French and Italian masters two hundred years ago, the Russian Ballet refined these techniques, thus enhancing its already superb performances. This book uncovers the Great History of Russian Ballet, its art and choreography.

Author : Alexandra Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190637880

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Puccini's la Bohème by Alexandra Wilson Pdf

"La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera's rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals and more"--

Author : Alexandra Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190637910

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Puccini's La Bohème by Alexandra Wilson Pdf

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Bohème's rise to fame and demonstrates that its success grew steadily through stage performances, recordings, filmed versions and the endorsements of star singers. More recently, popular songs, film soundtracks and musicals that draw on the opera's music and themes added further to its immense cultural impact. This cultural history offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. Wilson argues that La Bohème's approach to realism and its flouting of conventions of the Italian operatic tradition made it strikingly modern for the 1890s. She explores how Puccini and his librettists engaged with gender, urban poverty and nostalgia--themes that grew out of the work's own time and continue to resonate with audiences more than 120 years later. Her analysis of the opera's depiction of Paris reveals that La Bohème was not only influenced by the romantic mythologies surrounding the city to this day but also helped shape them. Wilson's consideration of how directors have reinvented this opera for a new age completes this fascinating history of La Bohème, making it essential reading for anyone interested in this opera and the works it inspired.

Author : Avril Pyman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441120984

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Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius by Avril Pyman Pdf