Alessandra Campana

Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

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Produktbeschreibung

Alessandra Campana explores how operas and their stage manuals participated in the making of a modern public in late nineteenth-century Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781107051898
• ISBN-10: 1107051894
• Artikelnr.: 40466065

Autorenporträt

Alessandra Campana is Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts. She studied at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', University of York and Cornell University, New York, and was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Besides her work in opera studies, her research spans more broadly the interfaces of sound and vision in theatre, film and video. Co-chair of the Opera Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Centre at Harvard University, Massachusetts, she is an Associate Editor of The Opera Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Staging manuals and the public
2. The 'fleeting moment': Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele
3. Milan 1881: Simon Boccanegra and the specters of history
4. Acting in Otello: on the rhetoric of the medium
5. The Real of opera: Puccini's Manon Lescaut
6. Faust again: the silent film Rapsodia satanica and Mascagni's score
Postlude.