The Oxford handbook of the operatic canon / edited by Cormac Newark and William Weber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newark, Cormac, 1972- editor.

Weber, William, 1940- editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (552 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Handbook of the operatic canon

Operatic canon

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection examines the phenomenon of the operatic canon: its formation, history, current ontology and practical influence, and future. It does so by taking an international and interdisciplinary view: the workshops from which it was derived included the participation of critics, producers, artistic directors, stage directors, opera company CEOs, and even economists, from the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Canada. The volume is structured as a series of dialogues: each subtopic is addressed by two essays, introduced jointly by the authors, and followed by a jointly compiled list of further reading.

Contents:

The practical and symbolic functions of pre-Rameau opera at the Paris Opéra before Gluck / Michel Noiray

Operatic canons and repertories in Italy around 1900 / Jutta Toelle

Phantoms at the Opéra: Meyerbeer and de-canonization / Flora Willson

The uses and disadvantages of opera history: Unhistorical thinking in fin-de-siècle Paris / William Gibbons

International opera in nineteenth-century New York: Core repertories and canonic values / Karen Ahlquist

Canons of real and imagined opera: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1810-1860 / Benjamin Walton

Viennese operetta canon formation and the journey to prestige / Micaela Baranello

Canons of the American Musical / Raymond Knapp

Setting the standard: Singers, theater practices, and the operatic canon in nineteenth-century / Kimberly White

Redefining the standard: Pauline Viardot and Gluck's Orphée / Hilary Poriss

Sound recording and the operatic canon: Three “drops of the needle” / Karen Henson

Italian opera and the concept of “canon” in the late eighteenth century / Franco Piperno

Opera on film and the canon / Hugo Shirley

National and international canons of opera in Tsarist Russia / Rutger Helmers

The survival of English opera in nineteenth-century concert life / William Weber

Canons of the Risorgimento then and now / Cormac Newark

Critical reflections on the operatic canon / John Rockwell

Inside and outside the operatic canon, on stage and in the boardroom / Kasper Holten

/ Mark Berry

The repertory of the Italian Court Opera in Berlin, 1740-1786 / John Mangum

General introduction: Idiosyncrasies of the operatic canon / Cormac Newark, William Weber

Catching up and getting ahead: The opera house as temple of art in Berlin c. 1800 / Katherine Hambridge

The evolution of French opera repertories in provincial theaters: Three epochs, 1770-1900 / Patrick Taïeb, Sabine Teulon Lardic

The mingling of opera genres: Canonic opera at the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen, 1882-1897 / Yannick Simon

From recycled performances to repertoire at the King's Theatre in London, 1705-1820 / Michael Burden

Repertory opera and canonic sensibility at the London opera, 1820-1860 / Jennifer Hall-Witt

Theaters, markets, and canonic implications in the Italian opera system, 1820-1880 / Carlotta Sorba.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780190224226

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