The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi
Author | : John Rosselli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1984-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521257329 |
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Author | : John Rosselli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1984-03-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521257329 |
Author | : Victoria Johnson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2007-05-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1139464051 |
This edited volume brings together academic specialists writing on the multi-media operatic form from a range of disciplines: comparative literature, history, sociology, and philosophy. The presence in the volume's title of Pierre Bourdieu, the leading cultural sociologist of the late twentieth century, signals the editors' intention to synthesise advances in social science with advances in musicological and other scholarship on opera. Through a focus on opera in Italy and France, the contributors to the volume draw on their respective disciplines both to expand our knowledge of opera's history and to demonstrate the kinds of contributions that stand to be made by different disciplines to the study of opera. The volume is divided into three sections, each of which is preceded by a concise and informative introduction explaining how the chapters in that section contribute to our understanding of opera.
Author | : Carolyn Abbate |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0393089533 |
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Author | : John Rosselli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1995-03-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521426978 |
Adelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Author | : Alessandra Campana |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2015-01-22 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1316194868 |
At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art, addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.
Author | : Charlotte Bentley |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226823083 |
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.
Author | : Mark A. Radice |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1574670328 |
These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.
Author | : Naomi Adele André |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253346445 |
Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.
Author | : Alan R. H. Baker |
Publisher | : Presses Université Laval |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Historical geography |
ISBN | : 9782763778075 |
Alan R.H. Baker, of the Geography Department of the University of Cambridge, has played a leading role in the development of historical geography. This book, which features twelve specially commissioned essays, recognizes his highly influential and innovative contributions. The contributors address the following topics: methodology and ideology in historical geography; historical geographies of state regulation and political discourse; the social and cultural use of public and private space; and the interpretation of images of place in relation to cultural and national identity.
Author | : Jeongwon Joe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136534075 |
Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.