Art and Ideology in European Opera (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Julian Rushton
Redaktion: Cowgill, Rachel; Brown, Clive; Cooper, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays highlight the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness.

Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts, is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings emerged, often quite remote from those intended by the original collaborators; but tracing this ideological dimension in a work's creation and reception enables us to understand its cultural and political role more clearly - sometimes conflicting with its status as art and sometimes enhancing it.
This collection is a Festschrift in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovative studies of Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz, among many others. Colleagues, associates and former students pay tribute to his work with essays highlighting the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness. British opera is represented bystudies of Grabu, Purcell, Dibdin, Holst, Stanford and Britten, but the collection sustains a truly European perspective rounded out with essays on French opera funding, Bizet, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Puccini, Janácek, Nielsen, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schreker. Several works receive some of their first extended discussion in English.

RACHEL COWGILL is Professor of Musicology at Liverpool Hope University.
DAVID COOPER is Professor of Music and Technology at the University of Leeds.
CLIVE BROWN is Professor of Applied Musicology at the University of Leeds.

Contributors: MARY K. HUNTER, CLIVE BROWN, PETER FRANKLIN, RALPH LOCKE, DOMINGOS DE MASCARENHAS,DAVID CHARLTON, KATHARINE ELLIS, BRYAN WHITE, PETER HOLMAN, RACHEL COWGILL, ROBERTA MONTEMORRA MARVIN, DAVID COOPER, RICHARD GREENE, J.P.E. HARPER-SCOTT, DANIEL GRIMLEY, STEPHEN MUIR, JOHN TYRRELL.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846158759
• Artikelnr.: 63918318

Inhaltsangabe

'Studying a little of the French Air': Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius
and the Dramatic Operas of Henry Purcell - Andrew Woolley Mendelssohn's
Die Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera - Clive
Brown Funding Grand Opera in Regional France: Ideologies of the
Mid-Nineteenth Century - Katharine Ellis Stanford and Le Fanu's Shamus
O'Brien: Protestant Constructions of Irish Nationalism in Late Victorian
England - David Cooper Janácek, Nejedlý and the Future of Czech National
Opera - 'As for opera, I am bewildered': Gustav Holst on the Fringe of
European Opera - Richard Greene The Sadler's Wells Dialogues of Charles
Dibdin - Nobility in Mozart's Opera - Flora Willson / Reviews New Light and
the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte - Rachel Cowgill The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of
Verdi's La traviata - Roberta Montemorra Marvin Carl Nielsen's Carnival:
Time, Space and the Politics of Identity in Maskarade - Daniel Grimley
Beyond the Exotic: How 'Easter' is Aida? - Ralph Locke Beyond Orientalism:
The International Rise of Japan and the Revisions to Madama Butterfly -
Domingos de Mascarenhas Opera as Poetry: Bizet's Djamileh and the Ironies
of Orientalism - Rimsky-Korsadov, Pan Voyevoda and the Polish Question:
Exposing the 'Occidentalist Irony' - Stephen Muir Modernism's Distanced
Sound: A British Approach to Schreker and Others - Peter Franklin
Being-with Grimes: The Problem of Others in Britten's First Opera -
Epilogue: Julian Rushton: A Family Memoir - Adrian Rushton and Edward
Rushton and Thomas Rushton