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The Management of Opera

Author : P. Agid,J. Tarondeau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230299276

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This book presents the current and future issues facing opera houses and opera companies. Problems in different environments need different solutions. In particular, it opposes the American method of managing cultural institutions, preferring a European one where public support and funds plays a major role.

Reshaping Opera

Author : Paola Trevisan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781443893305

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This title is a part of the series “Schwung”; Critical Curating and Aesthetic Management for Art, Business and Politics. Conventional wisdom holds that the performing arts, due to the economic nature of the sector, are condemned to a state of permanent financial crisis. However, increasingly frequent information about the fiscal troubles of several opera houses has also led to questions about the soundness of the strategies adopted by these organizations, and about the administrative abilities of their general managers. The case narrated here (La Fenice, Venice’s main opera theater), represents a successful case in which, still inside the borders of a subsidized cultural production, a managerial turn led to substantial improvements in efficiency and productivity levels. However, the success of a case such as La Fenice in terms of bottom-line fiscal indicators does not imply immunity to critiques. The description and analysis of the case, far from being presented as a best practice with any claim of generalization, allows for a critical reflection on arts management, starting from the tension between art and commerce discussed initially by the Frankfurt School. Critiques not only challenge the dominant meaning of what is considered good and what is not: they also contribute to the reshaping of a new social order. Only by looking at the whole picture, at both dominant and critical voices, can we come to a greater understanding of current ideological stances in the arts world and contextualize them within existing discourses on art, management studies, and arts management.

The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management

Author : Danielle Ranno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000786941

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The Beginner’s Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide. Beginning with a brief history of opera and detailing its difference from musical theatre, the book covers stage management best practices through prep, rehearsals, tech, performance, and wrap up. From the moment a manager accepts a contract, right through to archiving paperwork, this essential toolkit covers each step of a stage manager’s journey. Working with a score, reading music, working with singers, conductors, and musicians, basic duties of a stage manager versus an assistant stage manager, and other tasks specific to opera are also included in this comprehensive guide. This book is full of tips and tricks, as well as the good, bad, and ugly stories from opera stage managers, sharing both their experiences and mistakes. This is the perfect how-to book for the professional or emerging stage manager looking to work in opera, or to expand their existing stage management skillset.

Opera for the People

Author : Katherine K. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199371655

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Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.

The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521646839

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The Opera

Author : Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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“Opera is enjoyed only by those who know something about it. This is the idea behind this book... It was written for people who love opera and want to know a little more about its history and evolution, its lore and lure, and the people who create and re-create it.” — Joseph Wechsberg, Foreword to The Opera Joseph Wechsberg — musician and lifelong opera addict, claqueur, listener and critic — takes the reader on a journey through centuries of operatic history, from Dafne, performed during the 1590s, generally thought to be the first opera, to productions at La Scala, the Metropolitan or Vienna’s Staatsoper. He explains why, of the 42,000 operas said to have been written, only a few hundred survive. These classics are discussed, with analyses of their thematic components and musical qualities and biographical vignettes of their composers, and performers. “Mr. Wechsberg has written this book very much with the inexperienced opera-goer in mind... a readable and enjoyable summary of all that the novice to the opera house should know about. Within his survey appears a short account of operatic history and material on all the people concerned with opera: composers and librettists, singers, players, managers, conductors, producers, audiences, claques and critics.” — M.F.R., Music & Letters “Even the informed reader can learn from Wechsberg how to integrate his material and achieve a degree of perspective when viewing the enormous historical landscape that provides the background for the evolution of [the opera].” — Elaine Brody, Notes

Provincional Theater and Its Opera

Author : Jiří Kopecký,Lenka Křupková
Publisher : Vydavatelství Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého v Olomouci
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788087895511

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This monograph is a model essay on the functioning of a municipal German-language theatre, and it introduces a new view into research led by both theatre scientists and musicologists on the European scene. The book is conceived as social history of a citizen's cultural institution and interprets a wide range of problematic themes which we meet to this day in the everyday practice of municipal theatres.

The Management of Opera

Author : Cristina Scuderi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3205216520

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Opera House

Author : Veritas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Opera companies
ISBN : OXFORD:591011406

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Crosby's Opera House

Author : Eugene H. Cropsey
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0838638228

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It is also the story of Albert and Uranus Crosby, who migrated from Cape Cod to Chicago where, as successful entrepreneurs, they made their fortunes and later sacrificed it all in their efforts to bring a new musical and artistic enlightenment to their adpoted city.

The Urbanization of Opera

Author : Anselm Gerhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226288579

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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?

National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I

Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351915854

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National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I by Steven Huebner Pdf

This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.

The Russian Opera

Author : Rosa Newmarch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547311324

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In view of the extended interest now felt in Russian opera, drama and ballet, it has been thought worthwhile to offer to the public this outline of the development of a genuine national opera, from the history of which we have much to learn in this country, both as regards the things to be attempted and those to be shunned. Too much technical analysis has been intentionally avoided in this volume. The musician can supply this deficiency by the study of the scores mentioned in the book, which, dating from Glinka's time, have nearly all been published and are therefore accessible to the student; the average opera-goer will be glad to gain a general view of the subject, unencumbered by the monotonous terminology of musical analysis.

Opera in London

Author : Theodore Fenner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 0809319128

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Theodore Fenner’s Opera in London offers a vivid portrait of the operatic and cultural life of a London under the influence of Romanticism as perceived by the English press and the public who viewed the performances. In part 1, Fenner discusses the rise of the periodical press in early nineteenth-century London and the critics of these publications who reviewed opera performances, such as Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Fenner lists in the appendixes for part 1 the leading periodicals—including the Althenaeum, Examiner, and Spectator,— the critics, and reviews by leading critics. Fenner, in part 2, examines the productions of Italian opera in London at the King’s Theatre, including the problems in theatre management and financing; the varied nature of the audience; the operas and performances— those that were popular and those that failed in the words of the critics and the responses of the audience; the singers; and themes and attitudes of the period as expressed by the critics. In part 3, Fenner explores the same topics for the English operas presented at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and other playhouses. Parts 2 and 3 also contain extensive appendixes listing seasonal and annual performances and reviews, productions by composers and by librettists, comic and serious productions, operas by known playwrights, and minor singers. Forty-eight illustrations of singers, critics, performances, composers, and theatres add to the richness of this study.