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| Author | : Edward J. Dent |
| Publisher | : CUP Archive |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1976-11-18 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521213370 |
Dent's lectures here show that romantic opera had its origins not in Germany but in the music-dramas of revolutionary France.
| Author | : Wing Chung Ng |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2015-05-15 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0252097092 |
Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.
| Author | : Robert Donington |
| Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : Music |
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| Author | : Irene Morra |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2016-02-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317005856 |
This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British composers, informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed, British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often, operatic adaptations are compared superficially to their original sources. This is a particular problem for British opera, which has become increasingly defined artistically by the literary sophistication of its narrative sources. The resulting collaborations between literary figures and composers have crucial implications for the development of both opera and literature. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain reveals the importance of this literary involvement in operatic adaptation to literature and literary studies, to music and musicology, and to cultural and theoretical studies.
| 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.
| Author | : Ellen Rosand |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 712 |
| Release | : 2007-10-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0520254260 |
"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
| Author | : Paul A. Robinson |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780801494284 |
Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.
| 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 | : Anastasia Belina-Johnson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2016-03-23 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1317039556 |
The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning marketing, audience development, promotion, arts administration and economic issues that beset professionals working in the opera world. The editors' aim has been to assemble a coherent collection of essays that engage with a single theme (business), but differ in topic and critical perspective. The collection is distinguished by its concern with the business of opera here and now in a globalized market. This includes newly commissioned operas, sponsorship, state funding, and production and marketing of historic operas in the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Mark Ringer |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9781574671100 |
"Includes full-length Harmonia Mundi CD"--Cover, p. 1.
