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Author : David Trippett,Benjamin Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107111257
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author : Hervé Lacombe
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520217195
A lively history of French opera in its cultural and historical context by one of France's leading musicologists.
Author : Gabriela Cruz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190915056
A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.
Author : Jens Hesselager
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315466439
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 : Danièle Pistone
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017089801
Intended for the performer and general music lover as well as for students and musicologists, this three-part retrospective of Italian opera of the romantic era focuses on the settings, characters, and styles of the librettos; the voices, orchestration, and formal structure of the music; and the contemporary exigencies of the performance itself, moving from behind-the-scenes administration and artistry to the front-and-center interpreters and the audiences they played to. More than 120 musical examples support the text, the majority of them in an alphabetical appendix of "Famous Melodies", which includes the themes of popular arias along with captions detailing the operas, the composers, the acts in which the melodies occur, and the characters who sing them. The book also includes appendices of main characters, celebrated singers and conductors, and principal librettists; a glossary; and a note on Italian pronunciation. Numerous illustrations and tables, an exhaustive topical bibliography, and a select, current CD discography round out this informative introduction to opera's golden age.
Author : Krisztina Lajosi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004347229
In Staging the Nation: Opera and Nationalism in 19th-Century Hungary, Krisztina Lajosi examines the crucial role of theatre and opera in the shaping of historical consciousness and the formation of national identity by turning opera-loving audiences into a national public.
Author : Anselm Gerhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226288579
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 : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042526801
Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351915854
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.
Author : Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521889988
Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.
Author : Gundula Kreuzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520966550
In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required apparatuses changed through the twentieth century, sometimes still resonating in stagings, performance art, and popular culture today. Focusing on devices (which she dubs “Wagnerian technologies”) intended to amalgamate opera’s various media while veiling their mechanics, Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner’s idealist theories of total illusionism. At the same time, Curtain, Gong, Steam’s multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production. With its broad chronological and geographical scope, this book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of historical operatic practice as well as of individual works, both well known and obscure.
Author : Paolo Petrocelli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527539785
This book is the first structured and complete research work undertaken on opera theatres across the entire Middle East and North Africa. Until now, no single study has looked at every theatrical and musical institute in these countries. Many of the opera theatres that are examined here have had very little written about them at all. This work fills this void in order to provide scholars and practitioners in the sector with the first reference work on the subject that will help our understanding of the evolutionary process that has led—and continues to lead—all the countries in the MENA region to equip themselves with an opera theatre.
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015040431564
A survey of opera covering baroque, pre-classical, classical, 19th century and 20th century. It includes an introductory essay on the nature and social place of opera and is organized by century examining national developments within the chronological framework. Discussion of stage design and production is included, offering the student, researcher or enthusiast an opportunity to see the development of design, stage movement and gesture in the context of the development of opera itself. The book contains many illustrations, engravings, prints and photographs.
Author : Karen Henson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521198066
Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.
Author : Katherine K. Preston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199371655
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.
