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The legacy of opera : reading music theatre as experience and performance

Title
The legacy of opera : reading music theatre as experience and performance / edited by Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis.
Publication
  • Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
  • ©2013

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Additional Authors
  • Symonds, Dominic
  • Karantonis, Pamela
  • International Federation for Theatre Research.
Description
269 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Themes in theatre : collective approaches to theatre and performance ; 7
Uniform Title
Themes in theatre ; 7.
Alternative Title
Reading music theatre as experience and performance
Subjects
Note
  • "IFRT/FIRT Music Theatre Working Group"--Title page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index.
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.
Call Number
JME 14-19
ISBN
  • 9042036915 (paperback)
  • 9789042036918 (paperback)
OCLC
843861510
Title
The legacy of opera : reading music theatre as experience and performance / edited by Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis.
Publisher
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Themes in theatre : collective approaches to theatre and performance ; 7
Themes in theatre ; 7.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index.
Added Author
Symonds, Dominic, editor.
Karantonis, Pamela, editor.
International Federation for Theatre Research.
Research Call Number
JME 14-19
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