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Author | : Colleen Renihan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2020-04-03 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0429649134 |
The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic conceptions of opera, this book argues for opera’s powerful potential for historical impact and engagement in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by American composers. Considering opera’s ability to serve as a vehicle for memory, historical experience, affect, presence, and the historical sublime, this volume demonstrates how opera’s ability to represent and evoke historical events and historical experience differs fundamentally from the representations and recreations of other modes (specifically, literary and dramatic representations). Building on the work of performance scholars such as Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, and Diana Taylor, and in consultation with recent debates in the philosophy of history, the book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers, particularly those working in the areas of opera studies and performance studies.
Author | : Benjamin Lumley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : |
A memoir of the director of Her Majesty's Theatre, London.
Author | : Fred Plotkin |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1994-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Written by an opera insider and featuring an introduction by Placido Domingo, here is a thorough, friendly, and truly complete guide to learning how to love and appreciate the opera. After a brief history of opera, the book includes a guide to operatic terms, a minute-by-minute listener's guide to 11 central works, a list of recommended books and recordings and much more.
Author | : Matthew Boyden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
A unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders.
Author | : Angus Heriot |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1974-09-21 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Gerard J. Waggett |
Publisher | : Avon |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1997-10-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780061011573 |
Fascinating trivia, inside stories, history, nostalgia -- an in-depth look at every daytime soap opera on TV! A unique look at TV's most endearing kind of show, The Soap Opera Encyclopedia is a must-have for any soap fan. Readers will find the history and stars of all the shows, including backstage anecdotes,year-by-year ratings and a who's who with cast lists of all the featured actors and behind-the-scenes personalities. Comprehensive and completely accessible, The Soap Opera Encyclopedia is the one and only reference to nearly 100 soaps from the first 50 years of TV. Discover: Which former General Hospital star's face was once insured for one million dollars. What Days of Our Lives love theme became a hit single What film legend once wrote Guiding Light a fan letter Which role on All My Children Susan Lucci originally auditioned for Which scene from The Young and the Restless was named 1985's Most Tasteless Episode by Soap Opera Digest And so much more!
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Total Pages | : 15 |
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Genre | : Opera |
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Author | : Cormac Newark |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2020-09-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190224215 |
Opera has always been a vital and complex mixture of commercial and aesthetic concerns, of bourgeois politics and elite privilege. In its long heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it came to occupy a special place not only among the arts but in urban planning, too this is, perhaps surprisingly, often still the case. The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon examines how opera has become the concrete edifice it was never meant to be, by tracing its evolution from a market entirely driven by novelty to one of the most canonic art forms still in existence. Throughout the book, a lively assembly of musicologists, historians, and industry professionals tackle key questions of opera's past, present, and future. Why did its canon evolve so differently from that of concert music? Why do its top ten titles, all more than a century old, now account for nearly a quarter of all performances worldwide? Why is this system of production becoming still more top-heavy, even while the repertory seemingly expands, notably to include early music? Topics range from the seventeenth century to the present day, from Russia to England and continental Europe to the Americas. To reflect the contested nature of many of them, each is addressed in paired chapters. These complement each other in different ways: by treating the same geographical location in different periods, by providing different national or regional perspectives on the same period, or by thinking through similar conceptual issues in contrasting or changing contexts. Posing its questions in fresh, provocative terms, The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon challenges scholarly assumptions in music and cultural history, and reinvigorates the dialogue with an industry that is, despite everything, still growing.
Author | : Donald Jay Grout |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 1049 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : 0231119585 |
"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Author | : George Jellinek |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780879102845 |
(Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.