Early Opera in America
Author: O. G. Sonneck
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-10-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 3385200415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1873.
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The Operatic Archive
Author: Colleen Renihan
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 9780367134327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic conceptions of opera, this book argues for opera's powerful potential for historical impact and engagement in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century works by American composers. Considering opera's ability to serve as a vehicle for memory, historical experience, affect, presence, and the historical sublime, this volume demonstrates how opera's ability to represent and evoke historical events and historical experience differs fundamentally from the representations and recreations of other modes (specifically, literary and dramatic representations). Building on the work of performance scholars such as Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, and Diana Taylor, and in consultation with recent debates in the philosophy of history, the book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers, particularly those working in the areas of opera studies and performance studies.
Opera in America
Author: John Dizikes
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9780300061017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text tells how opera, steeped in European aristocratic tradition, was transplanted into the democratic cultural enviroment of America. It includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences and theatres throughout the country from 1735 to the present day.
American Opera
Author: Elise Kuhl Kirk
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780252026232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA treasure trove of information, "American Opera" sketches musical traits and provides plot summaries, descriptions of sets and stagings, and biographical details on performers, composers, and librettists for more than 100 American operas. 86 photos.
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America
Author: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-01-11
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0252099001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAwards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.
Opera on the Road
Author: Katherine K. Preston
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780252070020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Leads the reader on an operatic tour of pre-Civil War America in this cultural study of what was an almost ubiquitous art form. It covers orchestral and choral musicians as well as stars, impresarios, business methods, repertories, advertising techniques, itineraries, sizes of companies, and methods of travel." -- Publisher's description
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.
Black Opera
Author: Naomi Andre
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0252050614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
The Politics of Princely Entertainment
Author: Valeria De Lucca
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0190631139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Princely Entertainment follows the travels of Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and Maria Mancini, two of the most active music patrons of seventeenth-century Italy, tracing their influence on music across a rapidly transforming Europe through the singers, composers, and librettists they supported.
The Politics of Opera
Author: Mitchell Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 0691211515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European history and thought and music by such greats as Monteverdi, Lully, Rameau, and Mozart, Mitchell Cohen reveals how politics—through story lines, symbols, harmonies, and musical motifs—has played an operatic role both robust and sotto voce. This is an engrossing book that will interest all who love opera and are intrigued by politics.
