Opera In Italy

Author : Tim Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Naomi Jacob,James Constable Robertson
Publisher : Books for Libraries
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000061428362

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Opera in Italy by Naomi Jacob,James Constable Robertson Pdf

Author : Karyl Charna Lynn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461706786

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Italian Opera Houses and Festivals by Karyl Charna Lynn Pdf

Italian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great art form. They represent its beauty and richness. More than just concrete, stone, glass, and wood, they are alive, each with a character and history of its own. This work recreates the social, political, architectural, and performance histories of each house by including eyewitness accounts from Italian newspapers, journals, and books of the time. It covers more than 50 Italian opera houses and festivals, organized by their city of origin and geographic region. Each chapter is a journey back in time, beginning with the first theaters and performances in the city and concluding with an architectural description of the principal theater and a practical information guide for visitors (including hotel recommendations). The operatic activities of the main theater, including inaugurations, important performances, and world premieres, are also covered. A photospread, along with brief descriptions of opera-related sites, including the birthplaces, dwellings, and museums of Italy's greatest composers, give an even more complete portrait of the art.

Author : David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : John Rosselli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Raymond Fearn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134419258

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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 : Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Nick Rossi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCSD:31822023258437

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Opera in Italy Today by Nick Rossi Pdf

Opera in Italy Today offers a panorama of Italy's dynamic operatic scene. Descriptive text and evocative illustrations recreate not only Italy's historic major houses - including La Scala, the San Carlo, and La Fenice - but also her most important regional theaters. Ten of Italy's most famous opera festivals, including the Puccini, the Bellini, the Donizetti, and the Rossini, are discussed in detail as well, and more than twenty others are listed with address, season, and ticket information. A brief history of each opera house and venue, along with cartelloni of recent seasons, lets the opera lover know who has conducted and performed there in the past. For the armchair fan, discographies and bibliographies are provided. The book also includes a chapter on the La Scala Theatrical Museum, a chapter on children's opera, and a concluding chapter, "Opportunities for Young Singers", rich in information on Italian workshops, programs, and contests for aspiring young vocalists. Finally, lucky visitors to Italy will find the glossary of Italian words and phrases most useful during their travels.

Author : Tatiana Korneeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Italian drama
ISBN : 2503584950

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Mapping Artistic Networks by Tatiana Korneeva Pdf

"The essays in this collection are selected and revised versions of papers first presented at the conference 'Mapping Artistic Networks of Italian Theatre and Opera Across Europe, 1600-1800' held at the Freie Universität Berlin in 11-12 April 2019"--Page 21

Author : Ellen H. Bleiler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486157405

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Famous Italian Opera Arias by Ellen H. Bleiler Pdf

Original Italian texts with English translations of 145 arias from 50 operas, including Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and more. Introduction.

Author : Martha Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226044545

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Opera and Sovereignty by Martha Feldman Pdf

Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.

Author : Jehoash Hirshberg
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Kings and rulers in opera
ISBN : 2503577393

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Opera in Search of a Just Ruler for a Unified Italy by Jehoash Hirshberg Pdf

A pre-condition for the selection of the case studies was that they elicited at least "successo di stima" in more than one city, and that they were favourbly judged by the critics, most importantly by Filippo Filippi. The use of musical forms in the service of drama, most importantly "La Solita Forma", was of paramount importance and will be emphasized in the case studies and supported by the many musical examples from the unjustly forgotten operas. - Jehoash Hirshberg is Professor Emeritus at the Musicology Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research fields have included the music of the 14th century, the Italian solo concerto at the time of Vivaldi, with a joint book with Simon McVeigh. In the field of and history of Israeli art music he published "Music in the Jewish Community of Palestine 1880-1948" (OUP, 1995)

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521088356

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Essays on Handel and Italian Opera by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

Reinhard Strohm examines the relationship between Handel's great operas and the earlier European Baroque tradition.

Author : Francesca Vella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226815701

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Networking Operatic Italy by Francesca Vella Pdf

Stagecrafting the City -- Florence, Opera, and Technological Modernity -- Funeral Entrainments -- Errico Petrella's Jone and the Band -- Global Voices -- Adelina Patti, Multilingualism, and Bel Canto (as) Listening -- "Ito per Ferrovia" -- Opera Productions on the Tracks -- Aida, Media, and Temporal Politics circa 1871-72.

Author : Victoria Johnson,Jane F. Fulcher,Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139464055

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Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu by Victoria Johnson,Jane F. Fulcher,Thomas Ertman Pdf

This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.