Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780754660996
Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. He examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351555766
Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2016
Category : MUSIC
ISBN : 9781315090320
"Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Lysistrata (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1755 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0191610941
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important part of the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Author : Harrison Birtwistle
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Retelling of the myth of the Cretan Minotaur, this book considers the inner world of the Minotaur himself, and suggests a dark and compelling reason for Ariadne's intense relationship with Theseus.
Author : Emily Richmond Pollock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190063734
'Opera After the Zero Hour' argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught.
Author : N. Petsal_s-Diom_d_s
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574670592
(Amadeus). In this award-winning biography, Petsalis-Diomidis closely examines Maria Callas's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945. These years have been largely absent from previous works about Callas, but were crucial to her professional and personal growth. The author examines her professional development, her studies, her concertizing, and her work with the Greek National Opera. He also recounts Callas's daily life, her friendships, her rivalries at the conservatory, and her personal life. Though it is a detailed historical biography, the writing and pace are novelistic. HARDCOVER.
Author : Richard Stoneman
Publisher :
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1107167698
Explores how Alexander the Great has influenced literature, art and culture in Europe and the Middle East over two millennia.
Author : S. L. Mason
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2020-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781734120257
"We are not Gods. No matter what Zeus thinks." Herathina Log Entry ATD 1,784,652.51 Terra The study of evolution had come to a standstill when we discovered Terra. It was the perfect incubator for a Millennial Project. But from the beginning, everything has gone wrong. Our mandate said limited contact, not domination but Poseidon is too blinded by his lust for that human to listen. Sydney present day I don't know what I am. My dreams are filled with an island of blue and a woman's indiscernible pleas. On the back of the dreams come abilities. Abilities I'm desperate to hide. But it's the voice, in my mind that terrifies me most. Is it real or have I cracked? Can you live a normal life if you aren't? I can't run from the truth or from myself, because the dreams are driving me to find answers. Where is the island, who is the voice in my mind, what does the woman want, and how do I hide the truth and still appear normal on the outside? Truth always comes with trauma. Sydney and Herathina, two women whose seemingly unrelated lives come together over a millennium to change the fate of the universe. Nothing has prepared you for the culminating clash between Gods and Titans that has raged from the dawn of time, just out of human sight. If you love The Rowen and Percy Jackson you will love Alethea.
