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Deviant opera sex, power, and perversion on stage
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction : staging deviance -- Opera and sadomasochism -- Sex in excess : Rinaldo, Alcina, and the contemporary baroque -- Schools of Libertinage : Don Giovanni with Sade -- In-house allegories : enactment and actuality in Parsifal and Tosca -- More or less human : Wozzeck, Lulu, and the Soprano conductor -- Epilogue : the actuality effect and the quest for authenticity…”
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Opera for everyone : The Industry's experiments with American opera in the digital age /
Published 2024Subjects: “…Industry (Opera company) History 21st century.…”
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Grand opera : the story of the Met /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : bel canto -- Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque -- Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera -- In the age of new media, 2006-2013.…”
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Opera acts : singers and performance in the late nineteenth century /
Published 2014Subjects: “…Opera 19th century.…”
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The politics of opera : a history from Monteverdi to Mozart /
Published 2017Subjects: “…Opera Political aspects History.…”
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Fandom, authenticity, and opera : mad acts and letter scenes in fin-de-siècle Russia /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Entrepreneurs and the Public Mission of Russian Private Opera -- 2. Russia's New Celebrities: Off-stage Narrative and Performance -- 3. …”
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Opera in the Media Age : Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Business of Opera: Opera, Advertising and the Return to Popular Culture (Paul Fryer) -- Making Culture Popular: Opera and the Media Industries (Sam O'Connell) -- Opera Criticism: State of the Art and Beyond (Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe) -- Gods and Heroes or Monsters of the Media? …”
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Opera and Ideology in Prague : Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519 -- Rome 1480's-1520 -- Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto -- Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena -- Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte -- Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio -- Drama-tourney theaters -- Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti -- Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house -- Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera -- Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.…”
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Opera and ideology in Prague /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable capers' : class, respectability and the Savoy operas 1877-1909 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Note; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction; Introduction; Chapter 2: The Gilbert and€Sullivan Operas and€'Middle-Class' Ideals; Hierarchical Societies: The Sorcerer and€HMS Pinafore; 'Respectable' Values: The Pirates of€Penzance, the Gondoliers, Patience, The Mikado, Princess Ida and€Utopia, Limited; Entrepreneurship and€Professionalism; Summary; Chapter 3: The West End: 'Middle-Class' Values and€Commercialisation; Remaking the€West End; Remarketing the€Musical Stage: The€Savoy Operas; Summary; Chapter 4: Patience at the€Savoy.…”
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Russian opera and the Symbolist movement /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Decadence : Tchaikovsky at the edge -- Interlude : Symbolism's Nutcracker -- Syncretism : Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky -- Interlude : Klara Milich -- Theurgy : Scriabin and the impossible -- Interlude : another church musician writes an opera -- Mimesis : Prokofiev's demons -- Conclusion.…”
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The Opera Stage of Sarah Caldwell : A Directing Philosophy in Practice.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- The company -- The repertoire -- Preparation and rehearsal -- Spaces -- Experiments -- Final years -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : the conductor -- Appendix B : operas staged by Caldwell.…”
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Die Opera buffa in Europa : Verbreitungs- und Transformationsprozesse einer neuen Gattung (1740-1765) /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…2 Die europäische Verbreitung der Opera buffa im Überblick --…”
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The politics of opera in Handel's Britain /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Opera and political allegory : When is it an allegory? …”
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Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle /
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…Ballet-Pantomimes and Operas Produced at the Paris Opera, 1825-1850 --…”
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Russian opera and the symbolist movement /
Published 2002Subjects: “…Opera Russia (Federation) 20th century.…”
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