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Read and Download Ulrich Schneider book Opera minora in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera minora. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Book excerpt: In das Jahr 2002 fallt sowohl der achtzigste Geburtstag Ulrich Schneiders als auch sein zehnter Todestag, ein Anlass, die Opera minora dieses bedeutenden Indologen in einem Band gesammelt und neu gesetzt erscheinen zu lassen. Die Aufsatze geben einen reprasentativen Querschnitt durch das wissenschaftliche Werk Ulrich Schneiders und zeichnen dessen Entwicklung nach. Die Abhandlungen demonstrieren Schneiders umfassendes Fachverstandnis; sie dokumentieren seine Forschungen zum indischen Kulturkreis unter Einbeziehung der Fachrichtungen Philologie, Philosophie, Religionsgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Epigraphik und Ikonographie.

Read and Download Alessandra Barabaschi book Death at the Opera - Language Course Italian Level A2 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TDeath at the Opera - Language Course Italian Level A2. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 188 pages. Book excerpt: The story in short: Verona is the city of the most celebrated lovers in the history of literature: Romeo and Juliet. But Verona is also the city of the Arena, the world known opera stage. It is here that the famous opera singer Eva Tanzi will make her long-awaited comeback, in the role of Aida. Annika will also take part in the event... but she won't be only singing. The book also contains several entertaining exercises, which will help you learn faster: "Read & Learn", Focus on Grammar, Solutions, Dossiers 1 + 2

Read and Download Lorenzo Bianconi book Opera on Stage in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera on Stage. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 449 pages. Book excerpt: The History of Italian Opera marks the first time a team of expert scholars has worked together to investigate the Italian operatic tradition in its entirety, rather than limiting its focus to individual eras or 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-resulting in the sort of panoramic view critical to a deep and fruitful understanding of the art. Opera on Stage, the second book of this multi-volume work to be published in English-in an expanded and updated version-focuses on staging and viewing Italian opera, from the court spectacles of the late sixteenth century to modern-day commercial productions. Mercedes Viale Ferrero describes the history of theater and stage design, detailing the evolution of the art well into the twentieth century. Gerardo Guccini does the same for stage and opera direction and the development of the director's role as an autonomous creative force. Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell discusses the interrelationships between theatrical ballet and Italian opera, from the age of Venetian opera to the early twentieth century. The visual emphasis of all three contributions is supplemented by over one hundred illustrations, and because much of this material-on the more "spectacular" visual aspects of Italian opera-has never before appeared in English, Opera on Stage will be welcomed by scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.

Read and Download Michael Ewans book Opera from the Greek in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera from the Greek. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Book excerpt: Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. He examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.

Read and Download John Bokina book Opera and Politics in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera and Politics. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Book excerpt: To what extent do operas express the political and cultural ideas of their age? How do they reflect the composer's view of the changing relations among art, politics, and society? In this book John Bokina focuses on political aspects and meanings of operas from the baroque to postmodern period, showing the varied ways that operas become sensuous vehicles for the articulation of political ideas. Bokina begins with an analysis of Monteverdi's three extant operas, which address in an oblique way the political and ideological dualities of aristocratic rule in the seventeenth-century Italy. He then moves to Mozart's "Don Giovanni", which he views as a celebration of the demise of a predatory aristocracy. He presents Beethoven's "Fidelio" as an example of the political spirit of a revolution based on republican virtue, and Wagner's "Parsifal" as a utopian music drama that projects romantic anticapitalist ideals onto an imagined past. He shows that Strauss's "Elektra" and Schoenberg's "Erwartung" transform the traditional operatic depiction of madness by reflecting the emerging Freudian psychoanalysis of that era. And he argues that operas by Pfitzner, Hindemith, and Schoenberg explore the political roles of art and the artists, each couching contemporary conditions in an allegory about the fate of art in a historical period of transition. Finally, Bokina offers a reappraisal of Henze's "The Bassarids" as a political opera that confronts the promise and limits of the sensual-sexual revolt of the twentieth-century.

Read and Download Erik Wistrand book Opera selecta in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera selecta. This book was released on 1972 with total page 506 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Cornelius Winkler book Opera Omnia in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera Omnia. This book was released on 1918 with total page 490 pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Beth L. Glixon book Inventing the Business of Opera in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TInventing the Business of Opera. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 424 pages. Book excerpt: In mid-seventeenth-century Venice, opera first emerged from courts and private drawing rooms to become a form of public entertainment. Early commercial operas were elaborate spectacles, featuring ornate costumes and set design along with dancing and music. As ambitious works of theater, these productions required not only significant financial backing, but also strong managers to oversee several months of rehearsals and performances. These impresarios were responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at season's end. The systems they created still survive, in part, today. Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, from 1637 to 1677, when theater owners and impresarios established Venice as the operatic capital of Europe. Drawing on extensive new documentation, the book studies all of the components necessary to opera production, from the financial backing and the issue of patronage to the commissioning and creation of the libretto and the score; the recruitment and employment of singers, dancers, and instrumentalists; the production of the scenery and the costumes; and the nature of the audience. The authors examine the challenges faced by four separate Venetian theaters during the seventeenth century, and focus particularly on the progress of Marco Faustini, the impresario most well known today. Faustini made his way from one of Venice's smallest theaters to one of the largest, and his advancement provides a personal view of an impresario and his partners, who ranged from Venetian nobles to artisans. Throughout the book, Venice emerges as a city that prized novelty over economy, with new repertory, scenery, costumes, and expensive singers the rule rather than the exception. Through close examination of an extraordinary cache of documents--including personal papers, account books, and correspondence--Beth and Jonathan Glixon provide a comprehensive view of opera production in mid seventeenth- century Venice. For the first time in a study of Venetian opera, an emphasis is placed on the physical production-- the scenery, costumes, and stage machinery--that tied these opera productions to the social and economic life of the city. This original and meticulously researched study will be of strong interest to all students of opera and its history.

Read and Download Jeongwon Joe book Between Opera and Cinema in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TBetween Opera and Cinema. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 252 pages. Book excerpt: Leading scholars of opera and film explore the many ways these two seemingly unrelated genres have come together from the silent-film era to today.

Read and Download Marian Smith book Ballet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle" in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TBallet and Opera in the Age of "Giselle". This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 288 pages. Book excerpt: Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The "divorce" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score for Giselle.

Read and Download Charles William Dill book Monstrous Opera in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TMonstrous Opera. This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Book excerpt: One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau's compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public's expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and with the public. The result is a sophisticated rethinking of Rameau as a musical innovator. In his compositions, Rameau tried to highlight music's potential for dramatic meanings. But his listeners, who understood lyric tragedy to be a poetic rather than musical genre, were generally frustrated by these attempts. In fact, some described Rameau's music as monstrous--using an image of deformity to represent the failure of reason and communication. Dill shows how Rameau answered his critics with rational, theoretical arguments about the role of music in lyric tragedy. At the same time, however, the composer sought to placate his audiences by substantially revising his musical texts in later performances, sometimes abandoning his most creative ideas. Monstrous Opera illuminates the complexity of Rameau's vision, revealing not only the tensions within the music but also the conflicting desires that drove the man--himself caricatured by his contemporaries as a monster. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Read and Download John Tyrrell book Czech Opera in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TCzech Opera. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Book excerpt: Opera is the grandest and most potent cultural expression of the nationalist movement which led to the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. During this period Czech opera developed into a genre of major artistic importance cultivated by composers of the stature of Smetana, Dvorák and Janácek. Czech Opera examines opera in its national contexts, and is a study not only of operas written in Czech, but also of the specific circumstances which shaped them. These include the historical and political background to the period, the theatres in which Czech plays and operas were first performed, and the composers and performers who worked in them. The role of the librettists is given particular prominence and is complemented by a detailed chapter on the subject matter of the librettos shedding light on the subject matter of the historical and mythic background of the genre.

Read and Download David Charlton book Opera in the Age of Rousseau in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TOpera in the Age of Rousseau. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 437 pages. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Read and Download David Schroeder book Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TCinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 400 pages. Book excerpt: The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no-one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and opera proved to be especially useful in that regard. The allure of opera to cinema early in the twentieth century held up through the silent era, into sound films, through the golden age of movies, and beyond. This book explores the numerous ways – some predictable, some unexpected, and some bizarre – in which this has happened. The influence of Richard Wagner on filmmakers has been especially striking, and some have even devised visual images that seem to emerge from a kind of non-verbal Wagnerian essence – a formative, musical urge that can underlie a cinematic idea, defying explanation and remaining purely sensory. Directors like Griffith, DeMille, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Bunuel or Hitchcock have intuited this possibility. Schroeder provides a fascinating, well-researched and always entertaining account of the influence of one medium on another, and shows that opera can often be found lurking in the background (or booming in the foreground) of an impressive range of films.

Read and Download Alexandra B Bonds book Beijing Opera Costumes in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TBeijing Opera Costumes. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 632 pages. Book excerpt: Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture illuminates the links between theatrical attire and social customs and aesthetics of China, covering both the theory and practice of stage dress. Distinguishing attributes include an introduction to the performance style, the delineation of the costume conventions, an analysis of the costumes through their historical precedents and theatrical modifications, and the use of garment shape, color, and embroidery for symbolic effect. Practical information covers dressing the performers and a costume plot, the design and creation of the make-up and hairstyles, and pattern drafts of the major garments. Photographs from live performances, as well as details of embroidery, and close-up photographs of the headdresses thoroughly portray the stunning beauty of this incomparable performance style. Presenting the brilliant colors of the elaborately embroidered silk costumes together with the intricate makeup and glittering headdresses, this volume embodies the elegance of the Beijing opera.

Read and Download Downing A. Thomas book Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TAesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785. This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Book excerpt: This is the first study to recognize the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture. Downing A. Thomas considers the use of operatic spectacle and music by Louis XIV as a vehicle for absolutism; the resistance of music to aesthetic and political agendas of the time; and the long-term development of opera in the eighteenth-century humanist culture. He argues that French opera moved away from the politics of the absolute monarchy in which it originated to address Englightenment concerns with sensibility and feeling. The book combines close readings of significant seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century operatic works, circumstantial writings and theoretical works on theater and opera, together with a measure of reception history. Thomas examines key works by Lully, Rameau, and Charpentier, among others, and extends his reach from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth.

Read and Download book Deliberationes congressus dermatologorum internationalis IX, Budapestini, 13-21 Sept., 1935: Opera commissionum et conferentiarum in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TDeliberationes congressus dermatologorum internationalis IX, Budapestini, 13-21 Sept., 1935: Opera commissionum et conferentiarum. This book was released on 1937 with total page 524 pages. Book excerpt: