Bewitching Russian opera : the tsarina from state to stage / Inna Naroditskaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naroditskaya, Inna, 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Russia--18th century.

Opera.

Opera--Russia--19th century.

Empresses--Russia--History--18th century.

Empresses.

Women opera producers and directors--Russia--History--18th century.

Women opera producers and directors.

Kings and rulers in opera.

Women in opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century - Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological approaches, her study traces the tsarinas' deeply invested interest in musical drama, as each built theaters, established drama schools, commissioned operas and ballets, and themselves wrote and produced musical plays. Naroditskaya examines the creative output of the tsarinas across the conte

Contents:

Overture : Russia's imperial prima donnas

Russian Minervas staging empire

The play of possibilities : serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants

Catherine the empress(ario) : making tales into princely operas

Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera

Interlude : to patria and nation

Ruslan and Liudmila: the princess, the witch, and the dwarf

Rusalka : water, power, and women

Mlada and the spellbinding female circle

Sadko : he is the hero!

The inescapable queen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-093187-6

0-19-971264-6