Research Catalog

Title

Bringing the first Latin-American opera to life : staging La púrpura de la rosa in Sheffield / edited by Jane W. Davidson and Anthony Trippett.

Publication

Durham : Durham University, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Davidson, Jane W.
• Trippett, Anthony M.
• Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 1600-1681
• Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de, 1644-1728.
• University of Sheffield.

Description

xviii, 386 p. : ill., music; 21 cm. +

Series Statement

Durham modern languages series. HM ; 9

Uniform Title

Durham modern languages series. FM ; 9.

Alternative Title

• Staging La púrpura de la rosa in Sheffield
• Púrpura de la rosa : staging an opera

Subject

• Torrejón y Velasco, Tomás de, 1644-1728
• Operas > Librettos
• Opera > Production and direction

Genre/Form

DVD-Video discs.

Note

• "The opera [La púpura de la rosa] is the focus of this collection of essays, which are the fruit of a unique collaborations between hispanists and musicians. The project set out to edit, develop and perform the opera in Spanish, integrating the practice of performance with collaborative research into that practice, the libretto and the score, as well as into the literary, musical, social and historical contexts"--P. [4] of cover.
• Includes an English translation of Don Pedro Calerón del la Barca's Spanish libretto by Nicholas G. Round.
• Accompanying DVD documents the key stages of the Sheffield realisation of the opera, including scenes from rehearsals and interviews with participants.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to the "Púrpura Project" / Anthony Trippett -- The historical context of La púrpura de la rosa / Paul Jordan -- La púrpura de la rosa : Calderón's 'comedia cantada'? / A.A. Heathcote -- Una música entre otra : opera in the Spanish theatre / Andrew Lawrence-King -- La música de dos orbes : performing Spanish Baroque opera in Lima and Sheffield / Andrew Lawrence-King -- New challenges : working towards a performance of La púrpura de la rosa at the university of Sheffield / Simon Fidler -- Pedagogical issues and the 'Púrpura project' / Anthony Trippett -- Directing La púrpura de la rosa / Jane W. Davidson -- Blood-red roses in Babel : translating La púrpura de la rosa / Nicholas G. Round -- Opera-titling : blessing or burden? / Patricia Martínez-Zapico -- The blood of the rose / Nicholas G. Round.

ISBN

• 9780907310655
• 0907310656

OCLC

213867863

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library