UID:
almahu_9949386584402882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9781000338560
,
1000338568
,
9781003031017
,
1003031013
,
9781000338607
,
1000338606
,
9781000338584
,
1000338584
Series Statement:
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
Content:
Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and processes that guide them. In turn, comparisons are made with the workings of the traditional art museum, where artworks are studied, preserved, restored, displayed and contextualised - processes which are also present in the opera house. Curatorial roles in each institution are identified and described, and the role of the celebrity art curator is compared with that of the modern stage director, who has acquired previously undreamt-of licence to interrogate operatic works, overlaying them with new concepts and levels of meaning in order to reinvent and redefine the operatic repertoire for contemporary needs. A point of coalescence between the opera house and the art museum is identified, with the transformation, towards the end of the nineteenth century, of the opera house into the operatic museum. Curatorial practices in the opera house are examined, and further communalities and synergies in the way that works' are defined in each institution are explored. This study also considers the so-called birth' of opera around the start of the seventeenth century, with reference to the near-contemporary rise of the modern art museum, outlining operatic practice and performance history over the last 400 years in order to identify the curatorial practices that have historically been employed in the maintenance and development of the repertoire. This examination of the forces of curation within the modern opera house will highlight aspects of authenticity, authorial intent, preservation, restoration and historically informed performance practice.
Note:
Part One -- Chapter 1: 'Curationism' -- Chapter 2: Towards the curation of opera -- Chapter 3: The rise and fall of the public art museum -- Part Two -- Chapter 4: The invention of opera -- Chapter 5: Operatic transformations -- Chapter 6: From marketplace to museum -- Chapter 7: Mozart's operas during the long nineteenth century (1) -- Chapter 8: Mozart's operas during the long nineteenth century (2) -- Chapter 9: Boom and bust in the nineteenth century -- Part Three -- Chapter 10: The sociology of the opera house - insiders -- Chapter 11: The operatic work and the concept of Werktreue -- Chapter 12: Rossini, Rembrandt and the Werktreue debate -- Chapter 13: Dramaturgy and the dramaturge in the opera house -- Chapter 14: The dramaturgy of murder and madness -- Chapter 15: 'Deeds of music made visible' -- Chapter 16: Conclusion / Afterword
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367467814
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003031017
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003031017
