Literature As Opera
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Literature As Opera
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Author : Gary Schmidgall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1980
Literature As Opera written by Gary Schmidgall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Explores the relationship between literature and opera by examining specific works of literature and showing how they were adapted into operas.
Romantic Opera And Literary Form
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Author : Peter Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Romantic Opera And Literary Form written by Peter Conrad and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Music categories.
Romantic Opera and Literary Form is a provocative and provoking book on appear. It's idiosyncratic essay about the transformation of literature through music forces the reader to re-examine some of his own convictions about opera and drama.
When Literature Becomes Opera
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Author : Leonard Rosmarin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-11
When Literature Becomes Opera written by Leonard Rosmarin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Social Science categories.
Perhaps no other art form in the Western world has polarized opinion to the same extent as opera. While its devotees can be almost fanatical in their enthusiasm, its detractors will dismiss lyric theatre as an impossible hybrid. Literature and music undermine one another when brought together, they maintain. Their contempt for the genre is more often than not motivated by the supposedly mediocre quality of the librettos or scripts to which the works are set as well as the implausibility of characters singing instead of speaking their emotions. But what if these much maligned scripts provided composers with the raw material necessary to convert stereotypes into exemplary figures and place them in powerfully dramatic situations? What if the unreality of opera opened up gripping vistas onto the reality of human emotions? When Literature Becomes Opera strives to answer these questions by analyzing the artistic process through which literary texts are simplified then transformed into lyric dramas. Using as examples eight outstanding operas inspired by works of French writers (Rigoletto, La traviata, Carmen, Thaïs, La Bohème, Tosca, Pelléas et Mélisande and Dialogues des Carmélites), this study demonstrates that a libretto, like a film script, enters into a partnership with the art it serves: music. When the quality of the partnership is high, all of opera's liabilities that purists take pleasure in deriding become stunning assets.
Drama And Opera
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Author : Alfred Bates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Drama And Opera written by Alfred Bates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Drama categories.
Includes selections, epitomes, outlines of dramas, and some entire plays.
Drama And Opera
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Drama And Opera written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with categories.
Fairyland
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Author : Brian Hooker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09
Fairyland written by Brian Hooker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with Music categories.
French Baroque Opera A Reader
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Author : Caroline Wood
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-14
French Baroque Opera A Reader written by Caroline Wood and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with Music categories.
From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which greatly enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period during the past two decades. This book presents a wide-ranging and informative picture of the organization and evolution of French Baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an often entertaining insight into Lully’s once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English. Readers will find this new, updated edition easier to use with its revised and expanded translations, supplementary explanatory content and new illustrations.
Operatic Performances In England Before Handel Classic Reprint
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Author : A. Joseph Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-05
Operatic Performances In England Before Handel Classic Reprint written by A. Joseph Armstrong and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Music categories.
Excerpt from Operatic Performances in England Before Handel No field in English Literature has received less attention than that of the heroic drama, and inseparably connected with this is the so-called literary opera, for the composers who wrote the one, also wrote the other. I have chronicled the rise and progress of the English opera from 1656, the date of its initial performance, until the introduction in 1710 of Italian librettos by Handel and his co-workers. Little or nothing has been written on the consecutive history of the Opera between those two dates. The works them selves are not easily available and for that reason I have given epitomes of the operas and I have collected many facts concerning this excrescence of literature. I have read every extant opera, many of which are to be found only in the library of the British Museum. My indebtedness to the librarians of Havard and Cc lumbia Colleges, of the University of Pennsylvania, of the Congressional Library and of the British Museum, I grate fully acknowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Shakespeare Opera
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Author : Gary Schmidgall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1990
Shakespeare Opera written by Gary Schmidgall and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. In this illuminating study, Gary Schmidgall ranges widely through the Shakespearean canon and the standard operatic repertory and presents a fascinating comparison of the two, focusing on similarities of expressive style, scenic structure, staging, and performance practice. Schmidgall includes both extended discussions of pertinent general issues and concise essays on the most intriguing Shakespeare-based operas. For all who love the stage, Shakespeare and Opera offers endless insight and fascinaton. Schmidgall's extended comparison of the two dramaturgies offers provocative new insights on Shakespeare, musical theater, comparative drama, and theater history.
Tosca
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Author : G. Puccini
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-29
Tosca written by G. Puccini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with categories.