Opera

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond.

The Pre-history of 'The Midsummer Marriage' examines the early collaborative phase (1943 to 1946) in the making of Michael Tippett's first mature opera and charts the developments that grew out of that phase.

The Lost Tradition of Dvork's Operas: Myth, Music, and Nationalism examines Antonn Dvork's operas, specifically Jakobn and Rusalka, from a critical standpoint, focusing on such criteria as tonal structures, thematic material and motives, subject matter, Czech folklore and musical influences, textual language, nationalism, characters, compositional history, performance history, and reception.

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House.

Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the U.

Giochino Rossini: A Research and Information Guide is designed as a tool for those beginning to study the life and works of Gioachino Rossini as well as for those who wish to explore beyond the established biographies and commentaries.

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is often taken for granted.

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade, The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output.

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand.

Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices, and particularly those that play up the multiplicity, awareness and enjoyment of media.

Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven's songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe.

Das Interesse der Opernbühnen an Glucks Œuvre hat in den letzten 15 Jahren kontinuierlich zuge-nommen.

Examines the evolving practices in music, librettos, choreographed dance, and staging throughout the history of French Baroque opera.

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world.

Der Wiener Musikwissenschaftler Herbert Seifert (* 1945) hat mit seinen Studien, in denen akribische Quellenarbeit eine intensive Verbindung mit der Edition und Analyse von Libretti und Partituren eingeht, die Geschichte der Musikdramatik nördlich der Alpen, insbesondere unter Marcus Sitticus Graf von Hohenems, Fürsterzbischof von Salzburg, sowie im Herrschaftsgebiet der Habsburger für das 17.

English Dramatick Opera, 1661-1706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as "e;dramatick opera"e;, 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.

Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics.

Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera.

Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world.

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How do you create a style of opera that speaks to everyone, when no one agrees on what it should sayor how?

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture.

The representation of non-Western cultures in opera has long been a focus of critical inquiry.

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.

Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art.

Building a Career in Opera from School to Stage: Operapreneurship provides early-career singers with an overview of the structure of the opera industry and tools for strategically approaching a career within it.

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory.

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera.

Opera Coaching: Professional Techniques for the Repetiteur, Second Edition, is an update to the first practical guide for opera coaches when working with opera singers to help them meet the physical and vocal demands of a score in order to shape a performance.

Throughout early modern Europe, patronage became a means for the dominant classes to highlight their wealth, intellectual finesse, and cultural and political agendas, particularly within the court and religious institutions.

The Singer's Guide to German Diction is the essential foundation for a complete course in German diction for singers, vocal coaches, choral conductors, and anyone wishing to learn the proper pronunciation of High German.

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice.

How did Wagner's experiences in Paris influence his works and social character?

Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed.

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A reader-friendly, comprehensive, and innovative single volume introduction to Schoenberg''s life, works, and ongoing legacy.

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W.

The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.

Caritas relates the 'true', yet largely undocumented story of Christine Carpenter, a 14th-century anchoress who moves towards insanity as her desire for a divine revelation continues to be unfulfilled after a period of three years locked in her cell.

New perspectives on the life, works and aesthetic relationships of Igor Stravinsky, that epitomise the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre.