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Situating Opera

Herbert Lindenberger
Situating Opera Book PDF

Author : Herbert Lindenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139492584

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Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study.

Opera Acts

Karen Henson
Opera Acts Book PDF

Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107004269

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Karen Henson explores a wealth of new historical material about singers and opera performance in the late nineteenth century.

Opera in the Age of Rousseau

David Charlton
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Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521887601

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A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Historical Dictionary of Opera

Scott L. Balthazar
Historical Dictionary of Opera Book PDF

Author : Scott L. Balthazar
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810879430

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Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas were produced to greater acclaim. Those periods inevitably have pride of place in this Historical Dictionary of Opera, as do exceptional singers, and others who combine to fashion the opera, whether or not they appear on stage. But this volume looks even further afield, considering the cities which were and still are opera centers, literary works which were turned into librettos, and types of pieces and genres. While some of the former can be found on the web or in other sources, most of the latter cannot and it is impossible to have the whole picture without them. Indeed, this book has an amazingly broad scope. The dictionary section, with about 340 entries, covers the topics mentioned above but obviously focuses most on composers, not just the likes of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, but others who are scarcely remembered but made notable contributions. Of course, there are the divas, but others singers as well, and some of the most familiar operas, Don Giovanni, Tosca and more. Technical terms also abound, and reference to different genres, from antimasque to zarzuela. Since opera has been around so long, the chronology is rather lengthy, since it has a lot of ground to cover, and the introduction sets the scene for the rest. This book should not be an end but rather a beginning, so it has a substantial bibliography for readers seeking more specific or specialized works. It is an excellent access point for readers interested in opera.

Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

Cormac Newark
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Author : Cormac Newark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139495851

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Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust by Cormac Newark Pdf

The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.

Modernism and Opera

Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith
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Author : Richard Begam,Matthew Wilson Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421420622

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Sentimental Opera

Stefano Castelvecchi
Sentimental Opera Book PDF

Author : Stefano Castelvecchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521632140

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Sentimental Opera by Stefano Castelvecchi Pdf

Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.

Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera

Rebecca Harris-Warrick
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Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107137899

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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera by Rebecca Harris-Warrick Pdf

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

Verdi, Opera, Women

Susan Rutherford
Verdi Opera Women Book PDF

Author : Susan Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043824

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Verdi, Opera, Women by Susan Rutherford Pdf

Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in 19th-century Italy.

The Politics of Opera in Post-War Venice

Harriet Boyd-Bennett
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Author : Harriet Boyd-Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169272

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The Politics of Opera in Post-War Venice by Harriet Boyd-Bennett Pdf

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

The Oxford Handbook of Opera

Helen M. Greenwald
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Author : Helen M. Greenwald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199714841

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What IS opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators. The synergy of power, performance, and identity recurs thematically throughout the volume's major topics: Words, Music, and Meaning; Performance and Production; Opera and Society; and Transmission and Reception. Individual essays engage with repertoire from Monteverdi, Mozart, and Meyerbeer to Strauss, Henze, and Adams in studies of composition, national identity, transmission, reception, sources, media, iconography, humanism, the art of collecting, theory, analysis, commerce, singers, directors, criticism, editions, politics, staging, race, and gender. The title of the penultimate section, Opera on the Edge, suggests the uncertainty of opera's future: is opera headed toward catastrophe or have social and musical developments of the last hundred years stimulated something new and exciting, and, well, operatic? In an epilogue to the volume, a contemporary opera composer speaks candidly about opera composition today. The Oxford Handbook of Opera is an essential companion to scholars, educators, advanced students, performers, and knowledgeable listeners: those who simply love opera.

Opera in the Media Age

Paul Fryer
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Author : Paul Fryer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476616209

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This collection of essays explores the relationship between opera and the development of media technology from the late 19th to the early 21st century. Taking an international perspective, the contributing authors, each with extensive experience as scholars or practitioners of the art, cover a variety of topics including audio, video and film recording, contemporary critical responses, popular and “high brow” culture, live and recorded performance, lighting and performance technology, media marketing and advertising.

Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body

Jelena Novak
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Author : Jelena Novak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317077190

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Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body by Jelena Novak Pdf

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the voice-body relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson), and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms 'postoperas'. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a set of rules, protocols, effects, and strategies. That dissection shows how the singing body acts within the world of opera, what interventions it makes, and how it constitutes opera’s meanings.

Saint-Saëns and the Stage

Hugh Macdonald
Saint Sa ns and the Stage Book PDF

Author : Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108426381

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Saint-Saëns and the Stage by Hugh Macdonald Pdf

The first major study of Saint-Saëns's stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.

Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848

Kimberly White
Female Singers on the French Stage 1830 1848 Book PDF

Author : Kimberly White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107101234

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Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848 by Kimberly White Pdf

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.