Bringing Opera To Life


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Bringing Opera To Life


Bringing Opera To Life
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Author : Boris Goldovsky
language : en
Publisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Release Date : 1968

Bringing Opera To Life written by Boris Goldovsky and has been published by New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Opera categories.




Bringing Opera To Life


Bringing Opera To Life
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Author : Boris Goldovsky
language : en
Publisher: New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Release Date : 1968

Bringing Opera To Life written by Boris Goldovsky and has been published by New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Opera categories.




Bringing Soprano Arias To Life


Bringing Soprano Arias To Life
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Author : Boris Goldovsky
language : en
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Release Date : 1973

Bringing Soprano Arias To Life written by Boris Goldovsky and has been published by Schirmer Trade Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Music categories.


New in Paperback This book supplies a soprano with nearly everything she may need to perform the operatic arias discussed. The 28 arias included are chosen from among those that are more popular and most widely studied and performed. There are descriptions of stage settings, with costume sketches by famed theatrical designer Leo Van Witsen. The heart of each discussion is a detailed descriptions of the sections of the area. While the scenic design may change from one production to another, the suggestions given for dramatic motivations, character building, and stage movement can be readily adapted for use in any theatrical environment. Although it is not intended that these arias be acted out on the concert stage, much of the information_the dramatic analysis, discussions of vocal and musical aspects, matters of style and tradition, and translations of the texts_should be profitable for students of singing and stage direction, as well as professional opera singers, no matter how or where the arias are performed. Paperback edition available June 2001. Cloth edition previously published in 1990.



Bringing Soprano Arias To Life


Bringing Soprano Arias To Life
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Author : Boris Goldovsky
language : en
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 1973

Bringing Soprano Arias To Life written by Boris Goldovsky and has been published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Music categories.


New in Paperback! This book supplies a soprano with nearly everything she may need to perform the operatic arias discussed. The 28 arias included are chosen from among those that are more popular and most widely studied and performed. There are descriptions of stage settings, with costume sketches by famed theatrical designer Leo Van Witsen. The heart of each discussion is a detailed descriptions of the sections of the area. While the scenic design may change from one production to another, the suggestions given for dramatic motivations, character building, and stage movement can be readily adapted for use in any theatrical environment. Although it is not intended that these arias be acted out on the concert stage, much of the information_the dramatic analysis, discussions of vocal and musical aspects, matters of style and tradition, and translations of the texts_should be profitable for students of singing and stage direction, as well as professional opera singers, no matter how or where the arias are performed. Paperback edition available June 2001. Cloth edition previously published in 1990.



Bringing The First Latin American Opera To Life


Bringing The First Latin American Opera To Life
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Author : Jane W. Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages
Release Date : 2007

Bringing The First Latin American Opera To Life written by Jane W. Davidson and has been published by Durham Modern Languages this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with DVD-Video discs categories.




In Search Of Opera


In Search Of Opera
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Author : Carolyn Abbate
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-25

In Search Of Opera written by Carolyn Abbate and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-25 with Music categories.


In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. She seeks a middle ground between operas as abstractions and performance as the phenomenon that brings opera into being. Weaving between opera's "facts of life" and a series of works including The Magic Flute, Parsifal, and Pelléas, Abbate explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance, which range from euphoric visions of singers as creators to uncanny images of musicians as lifeless objects that have been resuscitated by scripts. In doing so, she touches upon several critical issues: the Wagner problem; coloratura, virtuosity, and their critics; the implications of disembodied voice in opera and film; mechanical music; the mortality of musical sound; and opera's predilection for scenes positing mysterious unheard music. An intersection between transcendence and intense physical grounding, she asserts, is a quintessential element of the genre, one source of the rapture that operas and their singers can engender in listeners. In Search of Opera mediates between an experience of opera that can be passionate and intuitive, and an intellectual engagement with opera as a complicated aesthetic phenomenon. Marrying philosophical speculation to historical detail, Abbate contemplates a central dilemma: the ineffability of music and the diverse means by which a fugitive art is best expressed in words. All serious devotees of opera will want to read this imaginative book by s music-critical virtuoso.



From The Score To The Stage


From The Score To The Stage
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Author : Evan Baker (Opera historian)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

From The Score To The Stage written by Evan Baker (Opera historian) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Opera categories.


Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life--by the stagehands who shift scenery, the scenic artists who create beautiful backdrops, the electricians who focus the spotlights, and the stage manager who calls them and the singers to their places during the performance. The first comprehensive history of the behind-the-scenes world of opera production and staging, From the Score to the Stage follows the evolution of visual style and set design in continental Europe from its birth in the seventeenth century up to today. In clear, witty prose, Evan Baker covers all the major players and pieces involved in getting an opera onto the stage, from the stage director who creates the artistic concept for the production and guides the singers' interpretation of their roles to the blocking of singers and placement of scenery. He concentrates on the people--composers, librettists, designers, and technicians--as well as the theaters and events that generated developments in opera production. Additional topics include the many difficulties in performing an opera, the functions of impresarios, and the business of music publishing. Delving into the absorbing and often neglected history of stage directing, theater architecture and technology, and scenic and lighting design, Baker nimbly links these technical aspects of opera to actual performances and performers, and the social context in which they appeared. Out of these details arise illuminating discussions of individual productions that cast new light on the operas of Wagner, Verdi, and others. Packed with nearly two hundred color illustrations, From the Score to the Stage is a revealing, always entertaining look at what happens before the curtain goes up on opening night at the opera house.



Opera


Opera
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Author : Guy A. Marco
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-05-03

Opera written by Guy A. Marco and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-03 with Music categories.


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.



The Opera Stage Of Sarah Caldwell


The Opera Stage Of Sarah Caldwell
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Author : Kristina Bendikas
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-05-14

The Opera Stage Of Sarah Caldwell written by Kristina Bendikas and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


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.



New Orleans And The Creation Of Transatlantic Opera 1819 1859


New Orleans And The Creation Of Transatlantic Opera 1819 1859
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Author : Charlotte Bentley
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-12-06

New Orleans And The Creation Of Transatlantic Opera 1819 1859 written by Charlotte Bentley and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-06 with History categories.


A history of nineteenth-century New Orleans and the people who made it a vital, if unexpected, part of an emerging operatic world. New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819–1859 explores the thriving operatic life of New Orleans in the first half of the nineteenth century, drawing out the transatlantic connections that animated it. By focusing on a variety of individuals, their extended webs of human contacts, and the materials that they moved along with them, this book pieces together what it took to bring opera to New Orleans and the ways in which the city’s operatic life shaped contemporary perceptions of global interconnection. The early chapters explore the process of bringing opera to the stage, taking a detailed look at the management of New Orleans’s Francophone theater, the Théâtre d’Orléans, as well as the performers who came to the city and the reception they received. But opera’s significance was not confined to the theater, and later chapters of the book examine how opera permeated everyday life in New Orleans, through popular sheet music, novels, magazines and visual culture, and dancing in its many ballrooms. Just as New Orleans helped to create transatlantic opera, opera in turn helped to create the city of New Orleans.