Believing in Opera / / Tom Sutcliffe.
The staging of opera has become immensely controversial over the last twenty years. Tom Sutcliffe here offers an engaging and far-reaching book about opera performance and interpretation. This work is a unique tribute to the most distinctive and adventurous achievements in the theatrical interpretat...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (482 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- 1. Believing in opera
- 2. Peter Brook and theatrical opera
- 3. Theory of interpretation
- 4. A repertoire of classics
- 5. The design matrix
- 6. Patrice Chereau: revolutionary classicism
- 7. Ruth Berghaus: Marx, feminism and the absurd
- 8. David Aiden: expressionist shock
- 9. Peter Sellars: Americanizing everything
- 10. Richard Jones: burlesque profundities
- 11. Graham Vick: neo-realism and emotion
- 12. Albery, Pimlott, Cairns: British expressionism
- 13. A line of renewal: from Hall to Pountney
- 14. Brian McMaster's eclectic imports
- 15. Frankfurt and after: from Neuenfels to Decker
- 16. 21st-century opera - going for a song
- Appendix: Bühnenreform (Theatre Reform)
- Postscript
- Index