Opera Outside The Box

Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000775570

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Opera Outside the Box by Roberta Montemorra Marvin Pdf

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and disseminated, by examining opera-related matters in publication and performance, in both musical and non-musical genres, outside the traditional approaches to transmission of operatic works and associated concepts. As a group, they exemplify the broad array of questions to be grappled with in seeking to identify commonalities that might shed light in new and imaginative ways on the experiences and manifestations of opera and notions of opera in Victorian Britain. In unpacking the significance, relevance, uses, and impacts of opera within British society, the collection seeks to enhance understanding of a few of the manifold ways in which the population learned about and experienced opera, how audiences and the broader public understood the genre and the aesthetics surrounding it, how familiarity with opera played out in British culture, and how British customs, values, and principles affected the genre of opera and perceptions of it.

Author : Bruno Bower,Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg,Sonja Starkmeth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781003826033

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Genre Beyond Borders by Bruno Bower,Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg,Sonja Starkmeth Pdf

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other genres without fundamentally changing in tone or approach. The chapters move from nineteenth-century London and Paris to twentieth-century North America, South America and Europe to present-day Australia. Some offer fresh understandings of familiar composers, such as Johann Strauss or Gilbert and Sullivan, while others examine works or composers that are less well-known. The chapter on Socialist operetta in Czechoslovakia in particular will almost certainly be a revelation to anyone from Western Europe or the US, where operetta is often understood to be a bourgeois phenomenon. As a summary of the current state of the field, this collection showcases the many possible pathways for future scholars who wish to explore it.

Author : Denise Gallo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136088025

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Opera: The Basics by Denise Gallo Pdf

Opera: The Basics offers an excellent introduction to four centuries of opera. Its easy to follow sections explore topics including: the origins of opera basic terminology the history of major opera genres including: serious opera, comic opera, semi-serious opera and vernacular opera. With key notes, discography and videography, this is the ideal book for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this important musical genre.

Author : John Holland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781666930153

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The Lost Tradition of Dvorák's Operas by John Holland Pdf

The Lost Tradition of Dvořák’s Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism examines Antonín Dvořák’s operas, specifically Jakobín and Rusalka, from a critical standpoint, focusing on such criteria as tonal structures, thematic material and motives, subject matter, Czech folklore and musical influences, textual language, nationalism, characters, compositional history, performance history, and reception. The intent of this research is to vindicate and validate Dvořák as an opera composer; to show him to be an overlooked master in Nineteenth Century opera and the bridge between the Verdi and Wagner traditions. Now, well over one hundred years after his death, it is now time for Dvořák to take his rightful place in the operatic echelon.

Author : Roger Parker,Susan Rutherford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226670188

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London Voices, 1820–1840 by Roger Parker,Susan Rutherford Pdf

London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city’s tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will alter it forever. It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category—voice—and engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and concert halls; on the raising of voices in religious and sociopolitical contexts; and on the perception of voice in literary works and scientific experiments with acoustics. Emphasizing human subjects, this focus on voice allows the authors to explore the multifaceted issues that shaped London, from the anxiety surrounding the city’s importance in the musical world at large to the changing vocal imaginations that permeated the epoch. Capturing the breadth of sonic stimulations and cultures available—and sometimes unavoidable—to residents at the time, London Voices, 1820–1840 sheds new light on music in Britain and the richness of London culture during this period.

Author : Jens Hesselager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315466439

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Grand Opera Outside Paris by Jens Hesselager Pdf

Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In contrast, this volume takes account of a larger geographical and historical context, bringing the Europe-wide impact of the genre into focus. The book presents case studies including analyses of grand opera in small-town Germany and Switzerland; grand operas adapted for Scandinavian capitals, a cockney audience in London, and a court audience in Weimar; and Portuguese and Russian grand operas after the French model. Its overarching aim is to reveal how grand operas were used – performed, transformed, enjoyed and criticised, emulated and parodied – and how they became part of musical, cultural and political life in various European settings. The picture that emerges is complex and diversified, yet it also testifies to the interrelated processes of cultural and political change as bourgeois audiences, at varying paces and with local variations, increased their influence, and as discourses on language, nation and nationalism influenced public debates in powerful ways.

Author : Andrew Lloyd Webber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic keyboard music
ISBN : 0793522145

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The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber Pdf

Author : Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342970

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Inventing the Business of Opera by Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon Pdf

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 : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470797013

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A Companion to Science Fiction by David Seed Pdf

A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Author : Helen Kara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350355750

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods by Helen Kara Pdf

This book provides both an overview of, and an insight into, the rapidly expanding field of creative research methods. The contributors, from four continents, range from doctoral students through to independent and practice-based researchers to senior professors, providing a clear view of the applicability of creative research methods in all types of research work. Chapters offer examples of creative research methods in practice, and advice on how to transfer or adapt those methods for different disciplines and settings. Research ethics and research quality are considered throughout. This is a timely handbook which provides information for novice researchers and inspiration for experienced researchers, and is essential reading for anyone interested in creative research methods.

Author : Lutz Bacher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813522919

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Max Ophuls in the Hollywood Studios by Lutz Bacher Pdf

Drawing on documents in many archives and on interviews with more than sixty of Ophuls' contemporaries, Bacher traces the European director's struggle to find a niche in the U.S. film industry.

Author : Anselm Gerhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,7 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 : Laura Paola Pellegrini
Publisher : LED Edizioni Universitarie
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788879165846

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Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux by Laura Paola Pellegrini Pdf

Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is a multifaceted novel. It is a gothic novel, because it speaks of obscure presences, sadows, ghosts, fate and magic; it is a romantic novel, just as Gaston Leroux’s indolence was romantic, leading the author to a certain gloomy and bittersweet melancholy; it is a decadent novel, because its protagonist is a real dandy, theatrical and excessively elegant, who loves to surround himself with baroque furnishings, mirrors, velvet and gold, just as Wilde or Huysmans would have liked; it is a symbolist novel, filled with countless metaphors dear to fairy-tale narrative, such as the key, the ring, the kiss, the lake, the river; it is a surrealist novel, as Jean Cocteau declared, since it tells of dreams, vast and obsessive spaces, as in Louis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland; it is a modern novel that narrates the voyage into the inner depths of ourselves, connected to the world of Psychoanalysis and to Sigmund Freud; it is a detective novel, for the language of investigation that appears in certain passages and for its myriad of mysterious crimes; it is a love story that tells of an unhappy, unrequited passion. Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is a novel that contains many novels and many styles, and that touches us deeply because it speaks of emotions and feelings. It is a popular novel that tells stories about each one of us, even if these stories seem incredible. It is an extraordinary novel that inspired many other works: novels, films, television programs, circus performances, ice-skating phantasmagoria. It inspired these from its first appearance in 1910, to this day, and will continue to inspire others in years to come.

Author : Jelena . Novak,John Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317145387

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Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama by Jelena . Novak,John Richardson Pdf

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both audiences and critics. Today, Einstein is well on the way itself to becoming a canonized avant-garde work, and it is widely acknowledged as a profoundly significant moment in the history of opera or musical theater. Einstein created waves that for many years crashed against the shores of traditional thinking concerning the nature and creative potential of audiovisual expression. Reaching beyond opera, its influence was felt in audiovisual culture in general: in contemporary avant-garde music, performance art, avant-garde cinema, popular film, popular music, advertising, dance, theater, and many other expressive, commercial, and cultural spheres. Inspired by the 2012–2015 series of performances that re-contextualized this unique work as part of the present-day nexus of theoretical, political, and social concerns, the editors and contributors of this book take these new performances as a pretext for far-reaching interdisciplinary reflection and dialogue. Essays range from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera’s expressive substance. A further valuable dimension is the inclusion of material taken from several recent interviews with creative collaborators Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs, each of these sections comprising knee plays, or short intermezzo sections resembling those found in the opera Einstein on the Beach itself. The book additionally features a foreword written by the influential musicologist and cultural theorist Susan McClary and an interview with film and theater luminary Peter Greenaway, as well as a short chapter of reminiscences written by the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega.

Author : Bernard D. Reams (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Taxation
ISBN : MINN:31951T00146908Y

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Internal Revenue Acts of the United States, 1909-1950 by Bernard D. Reams (Jr.) Pdf