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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Symonds, Dominic, editor.

Karantonis, Pamela, editor.

International Federation for Theatre Research.

Series:

Themes in theatre ; 7.

Themes in theatre : collective approaches to theatre and performance ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Musical theater.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Reading music theatre as experience and performance

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

Contents:

Empty houses, booming voices / Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis

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 questions 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.

Notes:

"IFRT/FIRT Music Theatre Working Group"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index.

ISBN:

9042036915

9789042036918

OCLC:

843861510

Publisher Number:

99954859679