This book brings together a significant part of the Derek B. Scotts diverse academic work, showing that the cultural history of music matters not only for the understanding it can bring to the meaning and purpose of music-making, but also because i...Loe edasi...
Opera is food for the soul. Patrick Pypes conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. This book explores how opera helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirat...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...
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...
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...
In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiogr...Loe edasi...
In this book, readers will gain a clear understanding of the rise of German opera in the early nineteenth century and the cultural and historical context in which this occurred....Loe edasi...
Analyzing the lack of diversity among opera executives, this book examines the careers of executive opera managers of color in the US. By interrogating the impact of race on arts managers careers, the author contemplates how opera might attract and...Loe edasi...
Cultural tourism is an experiential tourism based on searching for and participating in new and deep cultural experiences. this book enhances the tourism literature by testing the tourist attitude toward related issues of Cantonese Opera as cultural...Loe edasi...
Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in voice studies, opera, music theatre, musicology, directing, performance studies, practice-b...Loe edasi...
This book considers and discuss aspects of the management of the DOyly Carte Opera Company in the twentieth century since the death of its founder Richard DOyly Carte and concentrate on key events which contributed to its demise in 1982....Loe edasi...
Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of unspeakable love in one of the most famous love stories in literary history....Loe edasi...
This book examines select Australian theatre productions by director, Barrie Kosky. This text contextualizes the directors early theatrical practice within its Australian theatre milieu....Loe edasi...
Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production....Loe edasi...
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the first great opera, by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the operas performance, and...Loe edasi...
Philip Glass and Robert Wilsons most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its première at the Avignon Festival in 1976. The book features essays from those that focus on the human scale and agencies involved in pro...Loe edasi...
This book provides a historically informed understanding of the reception of Puccinis opera, La fanciulla del West as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity fo...Loe edasi...
In Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera scholars in Classics, Drama, Italian Literature, Art History, and Musicology explore the journey of Homers Odyssey from ancient to modern times. The book traces the reception of The Odys...Loe edasi...
This study considers how curatorial forces are at work within an opera house dentifying the functionaries and processes that guide them....Loe edasi...
Taking Australia as a case study, this double collection demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance, but are at least partly produced, defined and regulated by culture. The first...Loe edasi...
Taking Australia as a case study, this two-volume collection of extended essays demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance, but are at least partly produced, defined, and regulat...Loe edasi...
Victorian Vocalists is a masterful and entertaining collection of 100 biographies of mid- to late-19th-century singers and stars. Not only an outstanding reference work for anyone interested in vocalists of the era, but also a compelling, meticulous...Loe edasi...
English Dramatick Opera, 16611706 is the first comprehensive examination of the distinctively English form known as dramatick opera, which appeared on the London stage in the mid-1670s and lasted until its displacement by Italian through-composed...Loe edasi...
The founding in 1777 of the Journal de Paris, Frances first daily and distinctly commercial paper, represents an early use of disinformation as a tool for political gain, profit, and societal division....Loe edasi...
Judith Mabarys important volume will be of interest not only to musicologists, but those working in Central and East European Studies, Voice Studies, European Theatre and those studying music and nationalism....Loe edasi...
Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when composing songs....Loe edasi...
Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) was a vocal performance artist, singer and composer who pioneered a way of composing with (and listening to) the voice in the musical worlds of Europe, North America and beyond. As a modernist muse for many avant-garde co...Loe edasi...
French nineteenth-century stage music studies have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging new productions of nineteenth century works to take their place in the modern repertory. However, this has focused on works produced exclusively for the Par...Loe edasi...
This study unpacks the history of Verdis composition from its creation, performance, and publication in the 1860s through its appropriation as social and political commentary and its perception by American broadcast media as a weapon of art in th...Loe edasi...
This is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. Errors and misconceptions in current literature are challenged and corrected to give a truer portrayal of one of th...Loe edasi...
Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music, and in particular early music, to evoke and recompose a dis...Loe edasi...
