The legacy of opera : : reading music theatre as experience and performance / / edited by Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis.

The Legacy of Opera: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance is the first volume in a series of books compiled by the Music Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. The series explores the widening of the meaning of the term “music theatre” to reflect n...

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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Themes in Theatre 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 p.)
Notes:"IFRT/FIRT Music Theatre Working Group."
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • EMPTY HOUSES, BOOMING VOICES
  • IS THIS STILL OPERA?: MEDIA OPERAS AS PRODUCTIVE PROVOCATIONS / Bianca Michaels
  • A NEW GLIMMER OF LIGHT: OPERA, METAPHYSICS AND MIMESIS / Nicholas Till
  • THE SINGING BODY IN THE TRAGÉDIE LYRIQUE OF SEVENTEENTH- AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE: VOICE, THEATRE, SPEECH, PLEASURE / Sarah Nancy
  • PERFORMING AFFECT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY OPERA: PROCESS, RECEPTION, TRANSGRESSION / Clemens Risi
  • THE VIOLETTAS OF PATTI, MUZIO AND CALLAS: STYLE, INTERPRETATION AND THE QUESTION OF LEGACY / Magnus Tessing Schneider
  • THE TENOR IN DECLINE? NARRATIVES OF NOSTALGIA AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF THE OPERATIC TENOR / Pamela Karantonis
  • THE THREEPENNY OPERA: PERFORMATIVITY AND THE BRECHTIAN PRESENCE BETWEEN MUSIC AND THEATRE / Michael Eigtved
  • THE ACOUSMÊTRE ON STAGE AND SCREEN: THE POWER OF THE BODILESS VOICE / Jeongwon Joe
  • DANCING IN THE TWILIGHT: ON THE BORDERS OF MUSIC AND THE SCENIC / David Roesner
  • TURKISH POST-MIGRANT “OPERA” IN EUROPE: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON AURALITY / Pieter Verstraete
  • “POWERFUL SPIRIT”: NOTES ON SOME PRACTICE AS RESEARCH / Dominic Symonds
  • ABSTRACTS
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.