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An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.From the early days of television broadcasts to today s …
Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century s most influential operas …
A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.Opera s role in shaping Italian identity has …
A contemporary of Shakespeare and Monteverdi, and a colleague of Galileo and Artemisia Gentileschi at the Medici court, Francesca Caccini was a dominant musical figure there for …
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and …
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, …
"e;Don Giovanni"e; Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart s opera Don Giovanni has long …
Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and …
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, …
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 …