Research Catalog

Title

Opera, emotion, and the antipodes. Volume II, Applied perspectives : compositions and performances / edited by Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell, and Stephanie Rocke.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davidson, Jane W.
• Halliwell, Michael, 1950-
• Rocke, Stephanie

Description

xi, 250 pages; illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm.

Summary

There can be little doubt that opera and emotion are inextricably linked. From dramatic plots driven by energetic producers and directors to the conflicts and triumphs experienced by all associated with opera's staging to the reactions and critiques of audience members, emotion is omnipresent in opera. Yet few contemplate the impact that the customary cultural practices of specific times and places have upon opera's ability to move emotions. Taking Australia as a case study, this two-volume collection of extended essays demonstrates that emotional experiences, discourses, displays and expressions do not share universal significance but are at least partly produced, defined, and regulated by culture. Spanning approximately 170 years of opera production in Australia, the authors show how the emotions associated with the specific cultural context of a nation steeped in egalitarian aspirations and marked by increasing levels of multiculturalism have adjusted to changing cultural and social contexts across time. Volume I adopts an historical, predominantly nineteenth-century perspective, while Volume II applies historical, musicological, and ethnological approaches to discuss subsequent Australian operas and opera productions through to the twenty-first century. With final chapters pulling threads from the two volumes together, Opera, Emotion, and the Antipodes establishes a model for constructing emotion history from multiple disciplinary perspectives.

Series Statement

Routledge research in music series

Uniform Title

Routledge research in music.

Subject

• Opera > Australia > 19th century
• Emotions in music
• Emotions in the performing arts > Australia
• Emotions in the performing arts
• Opera
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1 Australian Composers and their Operas. Chapter 1: From European Romantic to "Wild Colonial Boy"? John Antill and Post-Colonial Australian Opera / David Symons -- Chapter 2 The Voice of Emotion in Contemporary Australian Opera / Michael Halliwell -- Chapter 3: Translating Page to Stage: Creating Emotionally Engaging Opera for Children / Emma Jayakumar -- Chapter 4: Speechless: An Operatic Response to Human Rights Abuse in Twenty-first-century Australia / Joel Crotty and Cat Hope -- Chapter 5: The Divorce: A Soap Opera / Helen Rusack -- Part 2 Antipodean Performance and Practice Chapter 6: From Patriotism to Alterity: Charting the Australian experience of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas / Jane W. Davidson and Stephanie Rocke -- Chapter 7: "Lamento d'Arianna": A Transhistorical Study of Staged Emotions and Affective Audience Responses / Daniela Kaleva -- Chapter 8: Assembling Voyage to the Moon: Emotion, Creativity and Historicity in a New Australian Opera / Joseph Browning and Jane W Davidson -- Chapter 9: Emotion as Multiple: Rehearsing Voyage to the Moon / Joseph Browning -- Part 3 Collection Conclusions Chapter 10: Antipodean Classification, the Emotions of Othering and Multiculturalism / Stephanie Rocke -- Chapter 11: What have we learnt about Emotions? / Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell and Stephanie Rocke.

Call Number

JME 21-9

ISBN

• 0367476975
• 9780367476977

OCLC

1181847713

Title

Opera, emotion, and the antipodes. Volume II, Applied perspectives : compositions and performances / edited by Jane W. Davidson, Michael Halliwell, and Stephanie Rocke.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in music series

Routledge research in music.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Davidson, Jane W., editor.

Halliwell, Michael, 1950- editor.

Rocke, Stephanie, editor.

Research Call Number

JME 21-9