Cargando…
Situating opera : period, genre, reception /
Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
|
| Colección: | Cambridge studies in opera.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (313 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511918605 0511918607 9780511916649 0511916647 9780511914836 0511914830 9780511667541 051166754X 1107215404 9781107215405 0511851308 9780511851308 9786612818219 6612818212 0511917627 9780511917622 0511913036 9780511913037 |