Opera Without Drama
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Opera Without Drama
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Author : Robert Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Books on Demand
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Opera Without Drama written by Robert Freeman and has been published by Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Opera categories.
Opera Without Drama
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Author : Robert Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Opera Without Drama written by Robert Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Music categories.
Opera Without Drama
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Author : Robert S. Freeman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Opera Without Drama written by Robert S. Freeman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.
Not Without Madness
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Author : Fabrizio Della Seta
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013
Not Without Madness written by Fabrizio Della Seta 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 2013 with History categories.
In these 12 essays, the author explores the concept of opera as a dramatic event and an essential moment in the history of theatre. Examining the meaning of opera and the devices that produce and transmit this meaning, he looks at the complex verbal, musical and scenic mechanisms in parts of 'La Sonnambula', 'Ernani', 'Aida', 'Le Nozze di Figaro', 'Macbeth' and 'Il Trovatore'. He argues that approaches to the study of opera must address performance, interpretation, composition, reception, and cultural ramifications.
Opera As Drama
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Author : Joseph Kerman
language : en
Publisher: Random House Trade
Release Date : 1956
Opera As Drama written by Joseph Kerman and has been published by Random House Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Music categories.
"Throughout the history of opera, if not quite continuously, there have been some who have taken opera's dramatic potential seriously and others who have not. It seems to be the case that over the last thirty years "Opera as Drama has helped keep the serious position alive. I hope it will continue to do so in this new edition."--"From the foreword to the new edition Passionate, witty, brilliant, "Opera as Drama, although published over thirty years ago, remains one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. For this new edition, the first since the book's original publication, the author has prepared a new foreword and provided emendations and additions that take into account some of the critical reaction to the book. He has also added a new chapter on operatic criticism. Updated yet still retaining the verve of the original, this new edition will be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.
Opera And Sovereignty
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Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-05
Opera And Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman 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 2010-10-05 with Music categories.
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Opera And Drama
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Author : Richard Wagner
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Opera And Drama written by Richard Wagner and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Music categories.
With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism. Originally published in 1851, when Wagner was in political exile, Opera and Drama outlines a new, revolutionary type of musical stage work, which would finally materialize as The Ring of the Nibelung. Wagner's music drama, as he called it, aimed at a union of poetry, drama, music, and stagecraft. ø In a rare book-length study, the composer discusses the enhancement of dramas by operatic treatment and the subjects that make the best dramas. The expected Wagnerian voltage is here: in his thinking about myths such as Oedipus, his theories about operatic goals and musical possibilities, his contempt for musical politics, his exaltation of feeling and fantasy, his reflections about genius, and his recasting of Schopenhauer. ø This edition includes the full text of volume 2 of William Ashton Ellis's 1893 translation commissioned by the London Wagner Society.
Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth
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Author : Lorenzo Bianconi
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2003-11
Opera In Theory And Practice Image And Myth written by Lorenzo Bianconi 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 2003-11 with Music categories.
The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon. This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlouse offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera.
Opera In Seventeenth Century Venice
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Author : Ellen Rosand
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-10-09
Opera In Seventeenth Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand 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 2007-10-09 with Art categories.
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Opera Tragedy And Neighbouring Forms From Corneille To Calzabigi
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Author : Blair Hoxby
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Opera Tragedy And Neighbouring Forms From Corneille To Calzabigi written by Blair Hoxby and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.