Opera After 1900
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Opera after 1900
Author | : Margaret Notley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781351555791 |
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The articles reprinted in this volume treat operas as opera and from some sort of critical angle; none of the articles uses methodology appropriate for another kind of musical work. Additional criteria used in selecting the articles were that they should not have been reprinted widely before and that taken together they should cover an extended array of significant operas and critical questions about them. Trends in Anglophone scholarship on post-1900 opera then determined the structure of the volume. The anthologized articles are organized according to the place of origin of the opera discussed in each of them; the introduction, however, follows a thematic approach. Themes considered in the introduction include questions of genre and reception; perspectives on librettos and librettists; words, lyricism, and roles of the orchestra; and modernism and other political contexts.
Early 20th Century Opera Singers
Author | : Nicholas E. Limansky |
Publsiher | : YBK Publishers |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1936411431 |
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Historical recordings by opera singers have proven since 1900 to offer much reward to the singer, student, listener, and collector alike. In the first book of this kind to appear in decades, Nicholas Limansky explains why critical listening is important and describes the merits of analyzing and comparing the recordings of previous generations of singers with those of the present. He also recounts how markedly record collecting has changed through the decades-especially in large cities like New York-mainly due to technological advance. He not only treats collecting 78 rpm disks, but LPs and CDs as well. Expired copyright now enables many of these early recordings to easily be acquired and collected, enabling the broad-scale comparison of style, technique, and vocal quality among the famous performers of earlier eras. The author points out what to look for among these differences in style, technique, and ability-both good and bad. (On occasion, the most famous are not the best ) With emphasis on today's student and collector, Limansky provides information about where, how, and on what labels given recordings can be found. He discusses printed resources that offer the interested even more information. Beginners and veterans alike will find much of interest in this far-ranging book. Nicholas Limansky studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with major professional choral groups in New York City that include The Bach Aria Group, Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (NY Philharmonic), Opera Orchestra of New York, The Netherlands Ballet, and Alvin Ailey (Revelations, Rainbow). He has written performance reviews for the Italian publication, "Rassegna Melodrammatic," and reviewed new vocal releases of historical singers for "Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer, " and "Opera Quarterly." He lectures at the New York Vocal Record Collectors Society and is a member of its board of directors.
Opera and Parody in Paris 1860 1900
Author | : Clair Rowden |
Publsiher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 2503583628 |
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This study interrogates press caricatures and cartoons, popular song, staged revue and opera parodies to discover the role they play within the Parisian theatrical, social, and wider cultural context and economy in the second half of the nineteenth century. From the beginnings of Wagner reception in Paris, through the heyday of 'opéra bouffe' in the hands of that comic genius Hervé, to the international operatic repertoire played on Parisian stages in the 1890s - including works by Massenet and Saint-Saëns performed during an increasingly tense nationalist climate - this book examines the workings of parody which draw on opera for their subject material and the ways in which this satirical mode of critique works, and for whom. While at face value, much parodical treatment criticises the hypotext, in analysing a wide range of intertextual 'texts', parody is revealed as a process which bolsters cultural norms, neutralises alterity or innovation of all forms and invariably throws the satirical and critical commentary back onto internal and local cultural products and debates. 'Opera and Parody in Paris, 1860-1900' uncovers a huge amount of primary and hitherto unpublished sources - libretti, scores, caricatures - in an analysis of intermedial materials that may be read as reception documents, as ?autonomous? artistic products, and more broadly as highly appealing cultural phenomena.
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation
Author | : Robin Healey |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781487531904 |
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Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
The Cambridge Companion to Operetta
Author | : Anastasia Belina,Derek B. Scott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781107182165 |
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A collection of essays revealing how operetta spread across borders and became popular on the musical stages of the world.
Opera Anecdotes
Author | : Ethan Mordden |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0195056612 |
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From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book of stories unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore. "An opera lover's handbook that should always be near at hand".--Schuyler G. Chapin, Columbia University.
Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera
Author | : Yayoi Uno Everett |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780253018052 |
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Yayoi Uno Everett focuses on four operas that helped shape the careers of the composers Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun, which represent a unique encounter of music and production through what Everett calls "multimodal narrative." Aspects of production design, the mechanics of stagecraft, and their interaction with music and sung texts contribute significantly to the semiotics of operatic storytelling. Everett's study draws on Northrop Frye's theories of myth, Lacanian psychoanalysis via Slavoj i ek, Linda and Michael Hutcheon's notion of production, and musical semiotics found in Robert Hatten's concept of troping in order to provide original interpretive models for conceptualizing new operatic narratives.
Opera and the City
Author | : Andrea Goldman |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804782623 |
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In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.