New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera (eBook, PDF)

The Practitioners' Perspectives
Redaktion: Zhang, Jingyi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040203781
• Artikelnr.: 72275340

Autorenporträt

Jingyi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Harvard University. As a music and cultural historian, her research interests center on themes of racial identity, mobility, media technology, and decolonial thinking in 19th to 21st century songs, opera, and theater.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Contemporary Opera and New Dramaturgies
JINGYI ZHANG
PART I: New Dramaturgical Considerations
1. Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative: The First Ten
Years
KELLEY ROURKE
2. Interview with Beth Morrison
BETH MORRISON AND JINGYI ZHANG
3. Seeking the Philosopher's Stone: On the Alchemy of Time in Creative
Dramaturgy
DAVID T. LITTLE
PART II: Representing Non-Western Cultures and Perspectives
4. Musicalizing the World: Dramaturgical Considerations of Non-European
Culture in Contemporary Opera
KAMALA SANKARAM
5. Investigating Operatic Decolonization in the Hypermobility Turn: The
Industry's Sweet Land (2020)
JINGYI ZHANG
6. Interview with Du Yun
DU YUN AND JINGYI ZHANG
PART III: Site-Specific Dramaturgies
7. Landscape Dramaturgy and (Post)Opera: Singing after Perspective
JELENA NOVAK
8. Pastoral Paradox: Staging Ted Hearne's Farming (2023) and Kate Soper's
The Hunt (2023)
ASHLEY KELLY TATA
9. Interview with Pamela Z
PAMELA Z AND JINGYI ZHANG
PART IV: Creative Possibilities of Transmedia Dramaturgy
10. Tradition, Transmedia, and Music in Contemporary Japanese Performing
Arts
KRISZTINA ROSNER
11. Biometrics, AI, Embodiment, Performative Practices, and the New
Dramaturgy
ELLEN PEARLMAN
12. Interview with Noa Frenkel
NOA FRENKEL AND JINGYI ZHANG