A poetics of Handel's operas / Nathan Link.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Link, Nathan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--18th century.

Opera.

Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Operas.

Handel, George Frideric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

What should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? 'A Poetics of Handel's Operas' explores this question by analysing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: with film, for example, the viewer would recognise that a character hears neither her own voiceover nor the ambient music that accompanies it, whereas in discussions of opera, some audiences may be distracted by the seemingly artificial nature of such conventions as characters singing their dialogue.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Link, Nathan A Poetics of Handel's Operas

ISBN:

0-19-765137-2

0-19-765136-4

0-19-765135-6