Author : Edward J. Dent
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1976-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521213370
Dent's lectures here show that romantic opera had its origins not in Germany but in the music-dramas of revolutionary France.
Author : Robert Donington
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Music
ISBN :
Author : Wing Chung Ng
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252097092
Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.
Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520254260
"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
Author : George Jellinek
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780879102845
(Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.
Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317005856
This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British composers, informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed, British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often, operatic adaptations are compared superficially to their original sources. This is a particular problem for British opera, which has become increasingly defined artistically by the literary sophistication of its narrative sources. The resulting collaborations between literary figures and composers have crucial implications for the development of both opera and literature. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain reveals the importance of this literary involvement in operatic adaptation to literature and literary studies, to music and musicology, and to cultural and theoretical studies.
Author : Paul A. Robinson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780801494284
Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.
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Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN : 9789991418575
Author : Carolyn Abbate
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393089533
“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
Author : Roger Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854452
A historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence 400 years ago, up to opera in the 1990s.
