Opera in context : essays on historical staging from the late Renaissance to the time of Puccini / edited by Mark A. Radice.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radice, Mark A.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Production and direction.

Opera.

Physical Description:

410 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press, [1998]

Summary:

These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic production from diverse national schools and periods, documenting the history of operatic staging using the words of composers and their contemporaries from diaries, letters, and writings of the day. Historical performance practice and other purely musical matters are considered as well as the elements of stagecraft, including scenery, costumes, and lighting.

Together these essays form a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera production over the centuries, from Purcell to Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini. Eyewitness accounts will create a new awareness of the defining effects of the original theaters upon familiar operas. Producers, directors, set designers, conductors, and singers will find a wealth of practical and inspiring information.

Contents:

Dalle macchine

la maraviglia : Bernardo Buontalenti's Il rapimento di Cefalo at the Medici Theater in 1600 / by Massimo Ossi

Opera and ballet in seventeenth-century French theaters : case studies of the Salle des machines and the Palais royal theater / by Barbara Coeyman

Theater architecture at the time of Henry Purcell and its influence on his "dramatick operas" / by Mark A. Radice

Handel's Haymarket Theatre / by Mark Stahura

Mozart and two theaters in Josephinian Vienna / by Malcolm S. Cole

The Neues Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz / by E. Douglas Bomberger

Paradise found : the Salle Le Peletier and French grand opera / by Karin Pendle and Stephen Wilkins

Verdi's operas and Giuseppe Bertoja's designs at the Gran teatro La Fenice, Venice ; Richard Wagner and his search for the ideal theatrical space / by Evan Baker

Realism on the opera stage : Belasco, Puccini, and the California sunset / by Helen M. Greenwald.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-395) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Opera in context.

ISBN:

1574670328

9781574670325

OCLC:

36817054