This book offers a series of thought-provoking essays about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences, as well as a...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the use of extended reality (XR) technologies to innovate the opera experience. It provides valuable contributions for undergraduate and postgraduate students, creative practice researchers, and professionals seeking to explor...Loe edasi...
Reflecting the myriad options available to London audiences at the turn of the eighteenth century, this volume offers readers a portrait of the interrelated music, drama and dance productions that characterized this rich period. By bringing together...Loe edasi...
Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the 16th century, each chapter hones its focus on a representative opera and composer, and provides discussion on historical and political...Loe edasi...
The Dance and Opera Stage Managers Toolkit details unique perspectives and approaches to support stage managers beginning to navigate the fields of dance and opera stage management in live performance....Loe edasi...
This book is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today....Loe edasi...
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholars...Loe edasi...
Through a combination of musical-textual analysis with critical theory and with four interconnected studies of the characters of Walther, Sachs, Beckmesser, and Eva, this book interrogates the ideological underpinnings of Die Meistersingers narrativ...Loe edasi...
This book approaches opera fantasias instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument per...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the circumstances of womens music-making in the diverse environment of Habsburg Central Europe, especially Bohemia and Lower Austria, during the 19th century. It sheds light on little-known women musicians, and reconsiders wel...Loe edasi...
Seeing Opera Anew offers a stereo perspective to opera, adding insights from the sciences closely related to human life, including evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience. It has a novel approach, and a cultural and biologic...Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. The chapters on an international range of topics serve as summary of the current state of the field, showcasing th...Loe edasi...
This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Miltons Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England....Loe edasi...
Opening Doors: Orchestras, Opera Companies and Community Engagement investigates the ways in which the classical music industry is reinventing its sense of purpose, never a more important or urgent pursuit than in the present decade....Loe edasi...
The present volume, devoted solely to the composers operas, reflects this scholarly activity. It brings together a substantial group of essays by an international team of scholars on a wide range of aspects of Rameaus operas....Loe edasi...
The Beginners Guide to Opera Stage Management is the first book to cover theatrical stage management practices specifically for opera productions, providing an invaluable step-by-step guide....Loe edasi...
Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic experiences outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
Bringing together scholars from musicology, literature, childhood studies, and theater, this volume examines the ways in which childrens musicals tap into adult nostalgia for childhood while appealing to the needs and consumer potential of the chil...Loe edasi...
This book asks what theological messages theologically educated Catholics in late-eighteenth-century Prague might have perceived in Mozarts late opera seria La clemenza di Tito....Loe edasi...
Claudio Monteverdis Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdis late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective....Loe edasi...
