Operas Of Monteverdi

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520933273

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Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy by Ellen Rosand Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works—Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)—from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, Le nozze d'Enea (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of an old master. A thorough review of manuscript and printed sources of Ritorno and Poppea, in conjunction with those of their erstwhile silent companion, offers new possibilities for resolving the questions of authenticity that have swirled around Monteverdi's last operas since their discovery in the late nineteenth century. Le nozze d'Enea also helps to explain the striking differences between the other two, casting new light on their contrasting moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Oneworld Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Operas
ISBN : 0714544469

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The Operas of Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Monteverdi s 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than30 years later to entertain Venetian audiences in the first public opera houses. Orfeo was long considered untranslatable, because the text is so closely tied to the music, and the Venetian librettos owe some of their brilliance to Spanish Golden Age theatre. This opera guide is an opportunity to read all three of Monteverdi s stage works together, in Anne Ridler s graceful translations."

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Alma Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780714545196

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Operas of Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

Monteverdi's 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than thirty years later to entertain Venetian audiences in the first public opera houses. Orfeo was long considered untranslatable, because the text is so closely tied to the music, and the Venetian librettos owe some of their brilliance to Spanish Golden Age theatre. This opera guide is an opportunity to read all three of Monteverdi's stage works together, in Anne Ridler's graceful translations.Contents: Operas contained in this volume: Orfeo, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria, L'incoronazione di Poppea; Monteverdi, Opera and History, lain Fenlon; On Translating Opera, Anne Ridler; PART ONE: Mantua; A masterpiece for a Court, John Whenham; Music Examples; 'Orfeo': Favola in musica by Alessandro Striggio the Younger; Orfeo: English singing version by Anne Ridler; PART TWO: Venice; Musical Theatre in Venice, Paolo Fabbri; The Spanish Contribution to the Birth of Opera, Jack Sage; Monteverdi Returns to his Homeland, Tim Carter; Musical Examples; ll ritorno d'Ulisse in patria: Dramma in musica by Giacomo Badoaro; The Return of Ulysses: English singing version by Anne Ridler; Public Vice, Private Virtue, lain Fenlon and Peter Miller; Musical Examples; L'incoronazione di Poppea: Opera musicale by Giovanni Francesco Busenello; The Coronation of Poppea: English singing version by Anne Ridler

Author : Ellen Rosand,Stefano La Via
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429575150

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Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas by Ellen Rosand,Stefano La Via Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive dialogue between musicologists and musicians, stage directors and theater historians, as well as philologists and literary critics can shed new light on Monteverdi’s two Venetian operas (and their respective librettos, by Badoaro and Busenello), not only at the levels of textual criticism, historical exegesis, and dramaturgy, but also with regard to concrete choices of performance, staging, and mise-en-scène. Following an Introduction setting up the interdisciplinary agenda, the volume comprises two main parts: ‘Contexts and Sources’ deals with the historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts of the works - librettos and scores; 'Performance and Interpretation’ offers critical and historical insights regarding the casting, singing, reciting, staging, and conducting of the two operas. This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers in Opera Studies and Music History as well as be of interest to early music performers and all those involved with presenting opera on stage.

Author : Mark Ringer
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574671103

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Opera's First Master by Mark Ringer Pdf

"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.

Author : Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter,Tim Carter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300096763

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Monteverdi's Musical Theatre by Lecturer in Music Royal Holloway and Bedford New College Tim Carter,Tim Carter Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is well known as the composer of the earliest operas still performed today. His Orfeo, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, and L'incoronazione di Poppea are internationally popular nearly four centuries after their creation. These seminal works represent only a part of Monteverdi's music for the stage, however. He also wrote numerous works that, while not operas, are no less theatrical in their fusion of music, drama and dance. This is a survey of Monteverdi's entire output of music for the theatre - his surviving operas, other dramatic musical compositions, and lost works.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Operas
ISBN : OCLC:1288493351

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The Operas of Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

Author : Mitchell Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780691211510

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The Politics of Opera by Mitchell Cohen Pdf

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and music by such greats as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics—through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs—has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. This is an engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics.

Author : John Whenham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521284775

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Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo by John Whenham Pdf

A detailed study of the earliest opera in the modern repertoire.

Author : John Bokina
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300101236

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Opera and Politics by John Bokina Pdf

To what extent do operas express the political and cultural ideas of their age? How do they reflect the composer's view of the changing relations among art, politics, and society? In this book John Bokina focuses on political aspects and meanings of operas from the baroque to postmodern period, showing the varied ways that operas become sensuous vehicles for the articulation of political ideas. Bokina begins with an analysis of Monteverdi's three extant operas, which address in an oblique way the political and ideological dualities of aristocratic rule in the seventeenth-century Italy. He then moves to Mozart's "Don Giovanni", which he views as a celebration of the demise of a predatory aristocracy. He presents Beethoven's "Fidelio" as an example of the political spirit of a revolution based on republican virtue, and Wagner's "Parsifal" as a utopian music drama that projects romantic anticapitalist ideals onto an imagined past. He shows that Strauss's "Elektra" and Schoenberg's "Erwartung" transform the traditional operatic depiction of madness by reflecting the emerging Freudian psychoanalysis of that era. And he argues that operas by Pfitzner, Hindemith, and Schoenberg explore the political roles of art and the artists, each couching contemporary conditions in an allegory about the fate of art in a historical period of transition. Finally, Bokina offers a reappraisal of Henze's "The Bassarids" as a political opera that confronts the promise and limits of the sensual-sexual revolt of the twentieth-century.

Author : Mauro Calcagno
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520951525

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From Madrigal to Opera by Mauro Calcagno Pdf

This pathbreaking study links two traditionally separate genres as their stars crossed to explore the emergence of multiple selves in early modern Italian culture and society. Mauro Calcagno focuses on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, a master of both genres, to investigate how they reflect changing ideas about performance and role-playing by singers. Calcagno traces the roots of dialogic subjectivity to Petrarch’s love poetry arguing that Petrarchism exerted a powerful influence not only on late Renaissance literature and art, but also on music. Covering more than a century of music and cultural history, the book demonstrates that the birth of opera relied on an important feature of the madrigalian tradition: the role of the composer as a narrative agent enabling performers to become characters and hold a specific point of view.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052123591X

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The Letters of Claudio Monteverdi by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

A comprehensive edition of Monteverdi's letters which span the years 1601-43 and give an unrivalled picture of the composer's life in Mantua, Venice and Parma, his thoughts on the aesthetics of opera, his colleagues, and his own works. Extensive commentaries introduce each letter.

Author : Claudio Monteverdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112487728

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The Return of Ulysses by Claudio Monteverdi Pdf

Author : Victoria Johnson,Jane F. Fulcher,Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Author : John Whenham,Richard Wistreich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1139828223

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The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi by John Whenham,Richard Wistreich Pdf

Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and music-lovers in general and adds significantly to our understanding of Monteverdi's music, his life, and the contexts in which he worked. Chapters offering overviews of his output of sacred, secular and dramatic music are complemented by 'intermedi', in which contributors examine individual works, or sections of works in detail. The book draws extensively on Monteverdi's letters and includes a select discography/videography and a complete list of Monteverdi's works together with an index of first lines and titles.