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Author : Contemporary Opera Studio
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Author : Central Opera Service (New York, N.Y.)
Release : 1980
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Bulletin - Central Opera Service by : Central Opera Service (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Bulletin - Central Opera Service written by Central Opera Service (New York, N.Y.). This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susie Gilbert
Release : 2011-03-03
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Opera for Everybody by : Susie Gilbert
Download or read book Opera for Everybody written by Susie Gilbert. This book was released on 2011-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Gilbert traces the development of ENO from its earliest origins in the darkest Victorian slums of the Cut, where it was conceived as a vehicle of social reform, through two world wars, and via Sadler's Wells to its great glory days at the Coliseum and beyond. Setting the company's artistic achievements within the wider context of social and political attitudes to the arts and the ever-changing theatrical style, Gilbert provides a vivid cultural history of this unique institution's 150 years. Inspired by the idealism of Lilian Baylis, the company has been based on the belief that opera in the vernacular can not only reach out to even the least privileged members of society but also create a potent and immediate communication with its audience. With full access to ENO's archive, Gilbert has unearthed a rich range of material and held numerous interviews with a fascinating array of personalities, to weave an absorbing tale of life both in front and behind the scenes of ENO as it developed over the years.
Author : Nicholas Till
Release : 2012-10-18
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies by : Nicholas Till
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies written by Nicholas Till. This book was released on 2012-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history. Written by leading scholars in opera studies today, this Companion offers a wide-ranging guide to a rapidly expanding field of study and new ways of thinking about a rich and intriguing art form, placing opera back at the centre of our understanding of Western culture over the past 400 years. This book gives lovers of opera as well as those studying the subject a comprehensive approach to the many facets of opera in the past and today.
Author : Clemens Risi
Release : 2021-09-27
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Opera in Performance by : Clemens Risi
Download or read book Opera in Performance written by Clemens Risi. This book was released on 2021-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera. This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
