Unsettling Opera : Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky /

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What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin...

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Autor principal: Levin, David J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Temas:
MUSIC / General.
zemlinsky, wagner, verdi, mozart, opera, adaptation, staging, performance, performing arts, music, theater, production, literature, dramaturgy, directing, textuality, interpretation, dramatic composition, mise en scene, reading, die meistersinger von nurnberg, fidelity, translation, imagination, creativity, le nozze di figaro, entfushrung aus dem serail, sublimation, audacity, don carlos, der konig kandaules.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Dramaturgy and Mise-en-Scène
  • 2. Reading a Staging/Staging a Reading: Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Performance
  • 3. Fidelity in Translation: Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro
  • 4. Deconstructing Singspiel: Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  • 5. Between Sublimation and Audacity: Verdi's Don Carlos
  • 6. Beyond the Canon: Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules
  • Appendix: Plot Summaries
  • Index

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