Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Herausgeber: Marvin, Roberta Montemorra; Poriss, Hilary

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889988
• ISBN-10: 0521889987
• Artikelnr.: 28107846

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Italian opera's fashions and legacies Hilary Poriss; 2.
Viardot sings Handel (with thanks to George Sand, Chopin, Meyerbeer,
Gounod, and Julius Rietz) Ellen T. Harris; 3. Partners in rhyme: Alphonse
Royer, Gustave Vaëz, and foreign opera in Paris during the July Monarchy
Mark Everist; 4. Verdian opera in the Victorian parlor Roberta Montemorra
Marvin; 5. I falsi Puritani: the opera's early history in Italy Fabrizio
Della Seta; 6. To the ear of the amateur: performing Ottocento opera
piecemeal Hilary Poriss; 7. Peeping at pachyderms: convergences of sex and
music in France around 1800 Jeffrey Kallberg; 8. Aida and nine readings of
'empire' Ralph P. Locke; 9. Comic sights: stage directions in Luigi Ricci's
autograph scores Francesco Izzo; 10. Staging and form in Giuseppe Verdi's
Otello Andreas Giger; 11. Stanislavski's La bohème (1927) David B. Rosen;
12. What is tradition? Will Crutchfield; 13. Epilogue: the art of
'translation' John Mauceri.