Format:
72 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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21 cm x 14.5 cm
Edition:
1. Auflage
ISBN:
3447107847
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9783447107846
Content:
Baroque opera is entirely plurimedial. Like no other medium, it offers unique possibilities to create, transform and reinterpret common historical images and figures, using different but closely intertwined semantic levels (drama, music, acting). This makes baroque opera a promising subject of historical, political and gender-specific analysis. The present volume is based on a session of the Eleventh European Social Science History conference in 2016 and examines the (re-)presentation of antique female rulers in baroque opera. The volume is not about music history or music theory studies, but deals with how, in the baroque period, librettists, composers and stage processed the ancient material in order to present female rulers on stage. Baroque opera is a particularly suitable model of study, as ancient themes occupy a prominent place during that period of time. Agnès Garcia Ventura and Marta Ortega Balanza focus on Agrippina the Younger as adapted in a staging of Georg Friedrich Händel?s opera 'Agrippina' at the Liceu opera house in Barcelona in 2013. They analyze the miscellaneous gender representations of Agrippina from ancient sources to Händel?s opera and its Barcelona staging. In Valeska Hartmann?s contribution Cleopatra VII plays the lead. Hartmann focuses on the stage designs used to create an appropriate setting for this ambivalent and often highly sexualized ruler. Both case studies are preceded by an introductory chapter by Kerstin Dross-Krüpe about the 'opera seria' as a source for the reception of antiquity and an essay by Kerstin Weiand about the polyvalence of antiquity in early modern Europe
Note:
"... the panel "Ancient Rulers in Baroque Opera" for the 11th ESSHC in Valencia in the spring of 2016, from which this volume derives" (Acknowledgements)
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Great women on stage: the reception of women monarchs from antiquity in Baroque opera
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The polyvalence of antiquity: remarks on the reception of classical antiquity in early modern Europe
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The construction of femininity in Händel's Agrippina: from history to dramatic opera
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Cleopatra in Baroque opera: the stage design between depiction of power and adoption of antiquity
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Great women on stage Wiesbaden, [Germany] : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017 ISBN 9783447196123
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Musicology
Keywords:
Barock
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Operngestalt
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Herrscherin
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Händel, Georg Friedrich 1685-1759 Agrippina
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Kleopatra VII. Ägypten, Königin v69-v30
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Antike
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Geschlechterrolle
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Geschichte 1600-1750
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Droß-Krüpe, Kerstin 1979-
