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  • - Manuscript, Edition, Production
     
    830,-

    After more than three centuries of silence, the voice of Francesco Cavalli is being heard loud and clear on the operatic stages of the world. In the face of such burgeoning interest, this collection of essays considers the Cavalli revival from various points of view. Following an introductory section, reflecting back on four decades of Cavalli performances by some of the conductors responsible for the revival of interest in the composer, the collection is divided into four further parts: The Manuscript Scores; Giasone: Production and Interpretation; Making Librettos; and Cavalli Beyond Venice.

  • av Andrew R. (Binghamton University Walkling
    616,-

    English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century.

  • av Wendy Heller & Eleonora Stoppino
    616 - 1 996,-

  • - From the Old Regime to the Restoration
    av R.J. Arnold
    626 - 2 100,-

  • av Roberta Montemorra Marvin
    1 760,-

    Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic "experiences" outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century.

  • - American Opera as History
    av Canada) Renihan & Colleen (Queen's University at Kingston
    626 - 1 960,-

  • av USA) Walkling & Andrew R. (Binghamton University
    676 - 2 420,-

  • av Anthony R. DelDonna
    830 - 2 046,-

    The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. This title provides a study of operatic culture from 1775-1800.

  • av Jelena Novak
    730 - 1 900,-

  • av Andrew R. (Binghamton University Walkling
    1 996,-

    English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "dramatick opera", which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed opera in the first decade of the eighteenth century.

  • - Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe
     
    2 070,-

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    756,-

    The genre of mélodrame à grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. Physical gesture, mise en scène and music were as important in communicating meaning and passion as spoken dialogue. The premise of this volume is the idea that the melodramatic aesthetic is central to our understanding of nineteenth-century music drama, broadly defined as spoken plays with music, operas and other hybrid genres that combine music with text and/or image. This relationship is examined closely, and its evolution in the twentieth century in selected operas, musicals and films is understood as an extension of this nineteenth-century aesthetic. The book therefore develops our understanding of opera in the context of melodrama''s broader influence on musical culture during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book will appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, theatre and modern languages as well as music and opera.

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    816,-

    The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry, however, the diverse relationships between opera and First Nations and indigenous cultures have received less attention. Opera Indigene addresses the changing historical depictions of indigenous cultures in opera and the more contemporary hybridizations of the form by indigenous and First Nations artists. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, ethnomusicology, cultural geography and critical discourses on nationalism and multiculturalism, the collection brings together experts on opera and music in Canada, the Americas and Australia.

  • av John Richardson & Dr. Jelena Novak
    2 386,-

    Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. The book features essays from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in productions to the mechanical and post-human character of the opera's expressive substance.

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    746,-

    With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde''s Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of ''her'' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome''s appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde''s heroine, nor Richard Strauss''s - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source material and theoretical approaches. The first chapter draws on the field of comparative literature to investigate the inter-artistic interpretations of Salome in a period that straddles the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the Modernist era. This chapter sets the tone for the rest of the volume, which develops specific case studies dealing with censorship, reception, authorial reputation, appropriation, embodiment and performance. As well as the Viennese premiere of Wilde''s play, embodied performances of Salome from the period before the First World War are considered, offering insight into the role and agency of performers in the production and complex negotiation of meaning inherent in the role of Salome. By examining important productions of Strauss''s Salome since 1945, and more recent film interpretations of Wilde''s play, the last chapters explore performance as a cultural practice that reinscribes and continuously reinvents the ideas, icons, symbols and gestures that shape both the performance itself, its reception and its cultural meaning.

  • av USA) Nedbal & Martin (University of Arkansas
    676 - 2 036,-

  • - Myths Reconsidered
    av Michael Halliwell
    676 - 1 860,-

  • - Music as Model, Method and Metaphor in Theatre-Making
    av David Roesner
    756 - 1 910,-

    Music continues to be immensely influential in key developments of theatrical practices. In this study of musicality in the theatre, David Roesner offers a revised view of the nature of the relationship between music and theatre. The theoretical scope of the book is developed from a wide range of case studies.

  • av Jeongwon Joe
    756 - 2 100,-

    Jeongwon Joe examines the role of opera as soundtrack by exploring the distinct effects opera produces in film, and what elements set opera apart from other types of soundtrack music, such as jazz or symphony. The author explores why opera tends to accompany poignant, pivotal scenes; she argues that when soundtracks employ opera excerpts.

  • av Christopher Morris
    696 - 2 036,-

    Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This book investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism.

  • av Professor Sarah Hibberd & Professor Roberta Montemorra Marvin
    2 046,-

    The genre of melodrame a grand spectacle that emerged in the boulevard theatres of Paris in the 1790s - and which was quickly exported abroad - expressed the moral struggle between good and evil through a drama of heightened emotions. This volume may appeal to those interested in film studies, drama, and theatre as well as music and opera.

  • av Millie Taylor
    830 - 2 280,-

    Beginning from the passion musical theatre performances arouse and their ubiquity in London's West End and on Broadway, this book explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. It investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances.

  • av Dr. Dylan Robinson
    2 200,-

    The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry. This title addresses the historical depictions of indigenous cultures in opera and the contemporary hybridizations of the form by indigenous and First Nations artists.

  • - Genesis, Staging, Reception
    av Shirley Thompson & Graham Sadler
    1 860,-

    The present volume, devoted solely to the composer¿s operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameaüs operas.

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    1 900,-

    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.

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    2 140,-

    This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siecle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point.

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