Opera Premieres

Author : Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520958975

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Grand Opera by Charles Affron,Mirella Jona Affron Pdf

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner’s "Ring," Grand Opera is a remarkable account of management and audience response to the push and pull of tradition and reinvention. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful "Live in HD" simulcasts and other twenty-first-century innovations. Grand Opera’s appeal extends far beyond the large circle of opera enthusiasts. Drawing on unpublished documents from the Metropolitan Opera Archives, reviews, recordings, and much more, this richly detailed book looks at the Met in the broad context of national and international issues and events.

Author : Paul Rodmell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317085454

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Opera in the British Isles, 1875–1918 by Paul Rodmell Pdf

While the musical culture of the British Isles in the 'long nineteenth century' has been reclaimed from obscurity by musicologists in the last thirty years, appraisal of operatic culture in the latter part of this period has remained largely elusive. Paul Rodmell argues that there were far more opportunities for composers, performers and audiences than one might expect, an assertion demonstrated by the fact that over one hundred serious operas by British composers were premiered between 1875 and 1918. Rodmell examines the nature of operatic culture in the British Isles during this period, looking at the way in which opera was produced and 'consumed' by companies and audiences, the repertory performed, social attitudes to opera, the dominance of London's West End and the activities of touring companies in the provinces, and the position of British composers within this realm of activity. In doing so, he uncovers the undoubted challenges faced by opera in Britain in this period, and delves further into why it was especially difficult to make a breakthrough in this particular genre when other fields of compositional endeavour were enjoying a period of sustained growth. Whilst contemporaneous composers and commentators and later advocates of British music may have felt that the country's operatic life did not measure up to their aspirations or ambitions, there was still a great deal of activity and, even if this was not necessarily that which was always desired, it had a significant and lasting impact on musical culture in Britain.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Operas
ISBN : UVA:X002257318

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Opera Premieres by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily Richmond Pollock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190063733

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Opera After the Zero Hour by Emily Richmond Pollock Pdf

'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300123736

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The Opera Lover's Companion by Charles Osborne Pdf

Written by a well-known authority, this book consists of 175 entries that set some of the most popular operas within the context of their composer's career, outline the plot, discuss the music, and more.

Author : Franklin Mesa
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476605371

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Opera by Franklin Mesa Pdf

This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

Author : Charles H. Parsons
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015056910295

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Opera Premiere Reviews and Re-assessments by Charles H. Parsons Pdf

A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).

Author : Gerald Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781349119769

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Annals of the Metropolitan Opera by Gerald Fitzgerald Pdf

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139826341

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera by Mervyn Cooke Pdf

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Margaret Ross Griffel
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810883253

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Operas in English by Margaret Ross Griffel Pdf

Although many opera dictionaries and encyclopedias are available, very few are devoted exclusively to operas in a single language. In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel brings up to date her original work on operas written specifically to an English text (including works both originally prepared in English, as well as English translations). Since its original publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 800 entries to the 4,300 from the original volume, covering the world of opera in the English language from 1634 through 2011. Listed alphabetically by letter, each opera entry includes alternative titles, if any; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; the composer’s name; the librettist’s name, the original language of the libretto, and the original source of the text, with the source title; the date, place, and cast of the first performance; the date of composition, if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere date; similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (i.e., in England, Scotland, or Wales) performances, where applicable; a brief plot summary; the main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); some of the especially noteworthy numbers cited by name; comments on special musical problems, techniques, or other significant aspects; and other settings of the text, including non-English ones, and/or other operas involving the same story or characters (cross references are indicated by asterisks). Entries also include such information as first and critical editions of the score and libretto; a bibliography, ranging from scholarly studies to more informal journal articles and reviews; a discography; and information on video recordings. Griffel also includes four appendixes, a selective bibliography, and two indexes. The first appendix lists composers, their places and years of birth and death, and their operas included in the text as entries; the second does the same for librettists; the third records authors whose works inspired or were adapted for the librettos; and the fourth comprises a chronological listing of the A–Z entries, including as well as the date of first performance, the city of the premiere, the short title of the opera, and the composer. Griffel also include a main character index and an index of singers, conductors, producers, and other key figures.

Author : Kristina Bendikas
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476639253

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The Opera Stage of Sarah Caldwell by Kristina Bendikas Pdf

Sarah Caldwell, the leader of the Opera Company of Boston from 1958-1990, was a groundbreaking and idiosyncratic woman who established her own career as a conductor and stage director in an environment resistant to change. This book investigates her choices as an opera director, her influences, her philosophies, and her methods, and situates her work within the history of opera in America. Though she is remembered primarily as a conductor, her passion, and her greater influence on American opera, was through stage directing. With a repertoire that included ground-breaking interpretations of works such as Nono's Intolleranza 1960, Prokofiev's War and Peace, and Bernstein's Mass, Caldwell continually pushed her own artistic limits, provoked critics, intrigued audiences, and challenged the status quo of opera production. Her passion for opera, her creative use of new technology and her influence in bringing opera to all sectors of American society, culminated in 1997 when she was awarded the National Medal of Arts for her work as a pioneering woman in the American musical landscape, and a tireless and innovative arts entrepreneur.

Author : Jens Hesselager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Guy A. Marco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Charles H. Parsons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042236427

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Opera Premieres by Charles H. Parsons Pdf

A multi-volume set giving detailed information on every aspect of opera - over 100,000 entries. Improves on Steiger's Opernlexikon by including two additional data-categories for each work (language of text and literary sources) and by covering composers who have appeared since the end-date of Steiger's work (1934).