Brief history of Italian opera
Author: Zofia Mossakowska (teatr)
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9788388823947
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Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth
Author: Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 0226045927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of scholars has worked together to investigate the entire Italian operatic tradition, rather than limiting its focus to major composers and their masterworks. Including both musicologists and historians of other arts, the contributors approach opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theater and a complex social phenomenon. This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlouse offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera.
Understanding Italian Opera
Author: Tim Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190247959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpera is often regarded as the pinnacle of high art. A "Western" genre with global reach, it is where music and drama come together in unique ways, supported by stellar singers and spectacular scenic effects. Yet it is also patently absurd -- why should anyone break into song on the dramatic stage? -- and shrouded in mystique. In this engaging and entertaining guide, renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels its many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Eschewing the technical musical detail that all too often dominates writing on opera, Carter begins instead where the composers themselves did: with the text. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter then offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas: Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea; Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt; Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro; Verdi's Rigoletto; and Puccini's La Bohème. Shedding light on the creative collusions and collisions involved in bringing opera to the stage, the various, and varying, demands of the text and music, and the nature of its musical drama, Carter also shows how Italian opera has developed over the course of music history. Complete with synopses, cast lists, and suggested further reading for each work discussed, Understanding Italian Opera is a must-read for anyone with an interest in and love for this glorious art.
Singers of Italian Opera
Author: John Rosselli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521426978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdelina Patti was the most highly regarded singer in history. She earned nearly $5,000 a night and had her own railway carriage. Yet a minor comic singer would perform for the cost of his food and a pair of shoes to wear on stage. John Rosselli's wide-ranging study introduces all those singers, members of the chorus as well as stars, who have sung Italian opera from 1600 to the twentieth century. Singers are shown slowly emancipating themselves from dependence on great patrons and entering the dangerous freedom of the market. Rosselli also examines the sexist prejudices against the castrati of the eighteenth century and against women singers. Securely rooted in painstaking scholarship and sprinkled with amusing anecdote, this is a book to fascinate and inform opera fans at all levels.
Italian Opera
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 708
ISBN-13: 9780521466431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
The History of Italian Opera
Author: Lorenzo Bianconi
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalian Opera Houses and Festivals
Author: Karyl Charna Lynn
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1461706785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKItalian Opera in the 18th and 19th centuries was an experience unequaled anywhere else in the world. The unique emotion, flavor, and passion that existed have yet to be attained in any other country. Opera houses in Italy are the birthplace of this great art form. They represent its beauty and richness. More than just concrete, stone, glass, and wood, they are alive, each with a character and history of its own. This work recreates the social, political, architectural, and performance histories of each house by including eyewitness accounts from Italian newspapers, journals, and books of the time. It covers more than 50 Italian opera houses and festivals, organized by their city of origin and geographic region. Each chapter is a journey back in time, beginning with the first theaters and performances in the city and concluding with an architectural description of the principal theater and a practical information guide for visitors (including hotel recommendations). The operatic activities of the main theater, including inaugurations, important performances, and world premieres, are also covered. A photospread, along with brief descriptions of opera-related sites, including the birthplaces, dwellings, and museums of Italy's greatest composers, give an even more complete portrait of the art.
A Short History of Opera
Author: Donald Jay Grout
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 0231119585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The fourth edition incorporates new scholarship that traces the most important developments in the evolution of musical drama. After surveying anticipations of the operatic form in the lyric theater of the Greeks, medieval dramatic music, and other forerunners, the book reveals the genre's beginnings in the seventeenth century and follows its progress to the present day."--Jacket.
Dramma Per Musica
Author: Reinhard Strohm
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780300064544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.
Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
Author: Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0521897084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
