Opera And The City

Author : Andrea Goldman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804782623

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In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.

Author : Martin L. Sokol
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007934584

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The New York City Opera by Martin L. Sokol Pdf

Author : Heidi Waleson
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781627794978

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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias by Heidi Waleson Pdf

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the arts In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had finally succumbed to financial hardship after 70 years in operation. The company had been a fixture on the national opera scene—as the populist antithesis of the grand Metropolitan Opera, a nurturing home for young American talent, and a place where new, lively ideas shook up a venerable art form. But NYCO’s demise represented more than the loss of a cherished organization: it was a harbinger of massive upheaval in the performing arts—and a warning about how cultural institutions would need to change in order to survive. Drawing on extensive research and reporting, Heidi Waleson, one of the foremost American opera critics, recounts the history of this scrappy company and reveals how, from the beginning, it precariously balanced an ambitious artistic program on fragile financial supports. Waleson also looks forward and considers some better-managed, more visionary opera companies that have taken City Opera’s lessons to heart. Above all, Mad Scenes and Exit Arias is a story of money, ego, changes in institutional identity, competing forces of populism and elitism, and the ongoing debate about the role of the arts in society. It serves as a detailed case study not only for an American arts organization, but also for the sustainability and management of nonprofit organizations across the country.

Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481497510

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Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Pdf

2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.

Author : Karen Ahlquist
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252022726

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Democracy at the Opera by Karen Ahlquist Pdf

Was there opera - and just what was it like - in New York City before the advent of the Metropolitan Opera Company? In exploring these questions, Karen Ahlquist describes the social, cultural, economic, and esthetic factors that led to the assimilation of Italian opera - a complex, expensive genre of elitist reputation - into New York's business oriented community, with its English cultural heritage and sacred republican traditions. In her lively description of opera as few today can imagine it, Ahlquist considers Jacksonian-era efforts to create a polite social setting, the influence of a socially based clash between respectability and broad public access, and the role of music in shaping, not just reflecting, social and cultural life.

Author : Claudio E. Benzecry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226043425

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The Opera Fanatic by Claudio E. Benzecry Pdf

Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Opera lovers are an intense lot, Benzecry discovers in his look at the fanatics who haunt the legendary Colón Opera House in Buenos Aires.

Author : George Tsypin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1616895241

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George Tsypin Opera Factory by George Tsypin Pdf

Based in New York City—in the grit, steel girders, and graffiti of the metropolis—George Tsypin's Opera Factory creates visions of towering gods, underwater kingdoms, constructivist reveries, skyscraping towers, and earth-bound angels. Tsypin's award-winning designs are produced around the world. This lavishly illustrated monograph introduces Tsypin's designs for twenty productions—including the musicals Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and The Little Mermaid; operas Oedipus Rex and the Ring Cycle; the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; Cirque du Soleil's Oasis; and the Seaglass Carousel in Battery Park. Tsypin uses each project as a starting point for meditations on creativity and the fleeting nature of performance that will rivet designers, artists, performers, and anyone interested in the creative process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Opera programs
ISBN : OCLC:909815858

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Opera in Three Acts ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anselm Gerhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226288579

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The Urbanization of Opera by Anselm Gerhard Pdf

Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?

Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226596013

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Operatic Geographies by Suzanne Aspden Pdf

Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house’s physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy of examination. Operatic Geographies invites us to reconsider the opera house’s spatial production. Looking at opera through the lens of cultural geography, this anthology rethinks the opera house’s landscape, not as a static backdrop, but as an expression of territoriality. The essays in this anthology consider moments across the history of the genre, and across a range of geographical contexts—from the urban to the suburban to the rural, and from the “Old” world to the “New.” One of the book’s most novel approaches is to consider interactions between opera and its environments—that is, both in the domain of the traditional opera house and in less visible, more peripheral spaces, from girls’ schools in late seventeenth-century England, to the temporary arrangements of touring operatic troupes in nineteenth-century Calcutta, to rural, open-air theaters in early twentieth-century France. The essays throughout Operatic Geographies powerfully illustrate how opera’s spatial production informs the historical development of its social, cultural, and political functions.

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Operas
ISBN : OCLC:264936154

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill Pdf

Author : Isaac Bickerstaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Operas
ISBN : BL:A0018095966

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Love in the City by Isaac Bickerstaff Pdf

Author : Tess Weaver
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618096353

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Opera Cat by Tess Weaver Pdf

When the opera diva Madame SoSo gets laryngitis, her singing cat Alma fills in for her.

Author : Jane Rosenberg,Luciano Pavarotti
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0500278733

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Sing Me a Story by Jane Rosenberg,Luciano Pavarotti Pdf

An illustrated retelling of the plots of fifteen well-known operas.

Author : Kurt Weill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Operas
ISBN : OCLC:226266676

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The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill Pdf