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The Operetta Empire
Author | : Micaela Baranello |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2024-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520401228 |
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CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro-Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire delves into this vibrant theatrical culture, whose creators simultaneously sought the respectability of high art and the popularity of low entertainment. Case studies examine works by Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán, Oscar Straus, and Leo Fall in light of current musicological conversations about hybridity and middlebrow culture. Demonstrating a thorough mastery of the complex early twentieth-century Viennese cultural scene, and a sympathetic and redemptive critique of a neglected popular genre, Micaela Baranello establishes operetta as an important element of Viennese cultural life--one whose transgressions helped define the musical hierarchies of its day.
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.
Johann Strauss and Vienna
Author | : Camille Crittenden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780521027571 |
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This book examines nineteenth-century Viennese operetta and the historical context in which it was created.
Operetta
Author | : Robert Ignatius Letellier |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781443884259 |
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Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a separate genre, an art form with its own special flavour and concerns, and no longer simply a "little opera". Attempts to emulate Offenbach's success in France and abroad generated other national schools of operetta and helped to establish the genre internationally, in Spain, in England, and especially in Austria Hungary. Here it inspired works by Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss II (the Golden Age), and later Franz Lehár and Emmerich Kálmán (the Silver Age). Viennese operetta flourished conterminously with the Habsburg Empire and the mystique of Vienna, but, after the First World War, an artistically vibrant Berlin assumed this leading position (with Paul Lincke, Leon Jessel and Edouard Künnecke). As popular musical tastes diverged more and more during the interwar years, with the advent of new influences—like those of cabaret, the revue, jazz, modern dance music and the cinema, as well as changing social mores—the operetta genre took on new guises. This was especially manifested in the musical comedy of London's West End and New York's Broadway, with their imitators generating a success that opened a new golden age for the reinvented genre, especially after the Second World War. This source book presents an overview of the operetta genre in all its forms. The first volume provides an introduction, a representative chronology of the genre from 1840 to 2013, and a survey of the national schools of France and Austria-Hungary. The principal composers are considered in chronological sequence, with biographical material and a list of stage works, selected synopses and some commentary.
Opera in Seventeenth Century Venice
Author | : Ellen Rosand |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520254268 |
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"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
Women Writing Opera
Author | : Jacqueline Letzter,Robert Adelson |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2001-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520226531 |
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At the same time it demonstrates how the Revolution fostered many dreams and ambitions for women that would be doomed to disappointment in the repressive post-Revolutionary era.".
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End 1900 1940
Author | : Derek B. Scott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2022-06-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1108723322 |
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Academic attention has focused on America's influence on European stage works, and yet dozens of operettas from Austria and Germany were produced on Broadway and in the West End, and their impact on the musical life of the early twentieth century is undeniable. In this ground breaking book, Derek B. Scott examines the cultural transfer of operetta from the German stage to Britain and the USA and offers a historical and critical survey of these operettas and their music. In the period 1900-1940, over sixty operettas were produced in the West End, and over seventy on Broadway. A study of these stage works is important for the light they shine on a variety of social topics of the period - from modernity and gender relations to new technology and new media - and these are investigated in the individual chapters. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Empire at the Op ra
Author | : Mark Everist |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781108904728 |
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Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over day-to-day control of the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. Every element of the Opéra's activity was subjugated to the exigency of Empire; the selection or artists, works and more general questions of artistic policy were handed over to politicians. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra's repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing organisations: the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre Lyrique.