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Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 113520778X |
Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.
Author | : Slavoj Zizek |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1135207771 |
Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.
Author | : Trevor Hold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Opera |
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Author | : Peter Conrad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1996-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
A Song of Love and Death examines the art of opera with the same creative insight that Susan Sontag's On Photography brought to its medium. It is an eloquent inquiry into the meaning of our boldest art, its expression of human irrationality and its power to disturb and excite us.
Author | : Lawrence Kramer |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0520251601 |
"Outstanding. Kramer's scholarship is as impeccable as his insights are at once original and consistently brilliant. The presentation is thorough, and the argument is well anchored in theory, history and musical detail. Kramer's discourse is crystalline and jargon free. The connections from one chapter to another are seamless. The story is, simply stated, a page-turner."—Richard Leppert, editor of Theodor W. Adorno's Essays on Music "Lawrence Kramer's Opera and Modern Culture is remarkable both for its imaginative exploration of important issues and for the rich array of the author's engagements with other thinkers. In particular, by decentering without dismissing the composer (who could dismiss Wagner?), he makes works of reception—productions of Salome on video, uses of the Lohengrin Prelude by Charlie Chaplin and W.E.B. Du Bois—central texts in the process of understanding the phenomenon of opera, rather than footnotes to an idea that he really does dismiss: 'the work itself.'"—James Parakilas, author of Piano Roles: 300 Years of Life with the Piano and Introduction to Opera (forthcoming)
Author | : Helen Traubel |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2022-02-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 146421591X |
When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the deceased, a one time world famous Heldentenor has been poisoned. The detective assigned to the case, Lt. Quentin, finds himself immersed in the back stage drama of professional opera. His task is made more difficult when he decides that it had really been the star soprano who had been the intended victim, and not the prompter. Will he be able to solve the case before there is another Metropolitan Opera Murder?
Author | : Edward Joseph Dent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eileen Davidson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451225641 |
When her arch nemesis Marcy Blanchard, the new head writer for The Yearning Tide is found dead, soap opera actress Alexis Peterson becomes the prime suspect and must play the role of a lifetime to clear her name. Original.
Author | : Michal Grover-Friedlander |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005-02-27 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691120089 |
Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what happens when opera is projected onto the medium of film. Michal Grover-Friedlander finds striking affinities between film and opera--from Lon Chaney's classic silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, to the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera to Fellini's E la nave va. One of the guiding questions of this book is what occurs when what is aesthetically essential about one medium is transposed into the aesthetic field of the other. For example, Grover-Friedlander's comparison of an opera by Poulenc and a Rossellini film, both based on Cocteau's play The Human Voice, shows the relation of the vocal and the visual to be surprisingly affected by the choice of the medium. Her analysis of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera demonstrates how, as a response to opera's infatuation with death, cinema comically acts out a correction of opera's fate. Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of a direct transformation of the operatic into the cinematic. Paradoxically, cinema at times can be more operatic than opera itself, thus capturing something essential that escapes opera's self-understanding. A remarkable look at how cinema has been haunted--and transformed--by opera, Vocal Apparitions reveals something original and important about each medium.
Author | : Claire Seymour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781843833147 |
Analysis of Britten's operatic works reveals opera as the natural medium through which he explored his private concerns.