Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (324 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511667541
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Opera
Content:
Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study
Content:
Prologue: why opera? Why (how, where) situate? -- Anatomy of a war horse: Il trovatore from A to Z -- On opera and society (assuming a relationship) -- Opera and the novel: antithetical or complementary? -- Opera by other means -- Opera and/as lyric -- From separatism to union: aesthetic theorizing from Reynolds to Wagner -- Toward a characterization of modernist opera -- Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera -- A brief consumers' history of opera -- Epilogue: why (what, how if) opera studies?
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521199896
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lindenberger, Herbert, 1929 - 2018 Situating opera Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521199896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521199891
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521199896
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Oper
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511667541
URL:
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Author information:
Lindenberger, Herbert 1929-2018
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