Situating Opera
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Situating Opera
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Author : Herbert Lindenberger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-28
Situating Opera written by Herbert Lindenberger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-28 with Music categories.
Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study.
Bringing Down The House
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Author : Megan Steigerwald Ille
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Bringing Down The House written by Megan Steigerwald Ille and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Avant-garde (Music) categories.
My dissertation, Bringing Down the House: Situating and Mediating Opera in the Twenty-First Century," challenges the structural primacy of the opera house by studying opera companies that move beyond its walls. I argue for a new assessment of place, spectatorship and technology in contemporary operatic performance. I introduce the term Alt-Op to define the work of independent and regional Canadian and American opera companies that, from 2012 to 2017, employ new modes of viewership to rebrand and reshape opera as an art form in a digital economy. I use the concept of Alt-Op as an alternative to both stereotypes of opera that exist in public culture, as well as the conventional relationships between sight and sound, spectacle and audience that are established by the opera house. Although recent studies broadly acknowledge the role of digital media in opera production, these analyses rely primarily on traditional conceptions of the opera house and the opera audience. In considering site-specific and digital practices of mediation, my dissertation, therefore, offers a critical analysissss of the effects of digital media consumption on traditional Western art forms in the twenty-first century. These changing entertainment interfaces affect the experiences of both spectators and performers. By incorporating ethnographic research into reception studies, I foreground the lived experiences of performers competing in a changing "gig" economy with implications for workers beyond the artistic sector. Analysis of industry rhetoric and practices that focus on evolving operatic marketing strategies, including training given to singers, collaborations between alternative opera companies, and festival-based performance practices applied to longer seasons provides a shift from analysis of "onstage" productions to "backstage" process. With this methodological approach, I situate operatic performance within contemporary economic ecosystems, with potential implications for analysis of traditional in-house productions. At a time in which experimental performance is receiving recognition on the national stage, it is essential to critically consider the forms operatic performance may take beyond the institutional walls of the opera house. In turn, these processes of inquiry illuminate the networks of production adn consumption around institutional and experimental artistic culture in the contemporary United States and Canada.
Opera Acts
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Author : Karen Henson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-15
Opera Acts written by Karen Henson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-15 with Music categories.
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Opera In The Age Of Rousseau
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Author : David Charlton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Opera In The Age Of Rousseau written by David Charlton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Music categories.
A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.
Historical Dictionary Of Opera
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Author : Scott L. Balthazar
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2013-07-05
Historical Dictionary Of Opera written by Scott L. Balthazar and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-05 with Music categories.
Opera has been around ever since the late 16th century, and it is still going strong in the sense that operas are performed around the world at present, and known by infinitely more persons than just those who attend performances. On the other hand, it has enjoyed periods in the past when more operas were produced to greater acclaim. Those periods inevitably have pride of place in this Historical Dictionary of Opera, as do exceptional singers, and others who combine to fashion the opera, whether or not they appear on stage. But this volume looks even further afield, considering the cities which were and still are opera centers, literary works which were turned into librettos, and types of pieces and genres. While some of the former can be found on the web or in other sources, most of the latter cannot and it is impossible to have the whole picture without them. Indeed, this book has an amazingly broad scope. The dictionary section, with about 340 entries, covers the topics mentioned above but obviously focuses most on composers, not just the likes of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, but others who are scarcely remembered but made notable contributions. Of course, there are the divas, but others singers as well, and some of the most familiar operas, Don Giovanni, Tosca and more. Technical terms also abound, and reference to different genres, from antimasque to zarzuela. Since opera has been around so long, the chronology is rather lengthy, since it has a lot of ground to cover, and the introduction sets the scene for the rest. This book should not be an end but rather a beginning, so it has a substantial bibliography for readers seeking more specific or specialized works. It is an excellent access point for readers interested in opera.
Opera In The Novel From Balzac To Proust
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Author : Cormac Newark
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-31
Opera In The Novel From Balzac To Proust written by Cormac Newark and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-31 with Music categories.
The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.
Modernism And Opera
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Author : Richard Begam
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-11
Modernism And Opera written by Richard Begam and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Sentimental Opera
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Author : Stefano Castelvecchi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Sentimental Opera written by Stefano Castelvecchi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with History categories.
Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.
Dance And Drama In French Baroque Opera
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Author : Rebecca Harris-Warrick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Dance And Drama In French Baroque Opera written by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with Music categories.
Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.
Verdi Opera Women
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Author : Susan Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-07
Verdi Opera Women written by Susan Rutherford and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with History categories.
Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.