Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century write by Corinna Di Niro. This book was released on 2021-12-30. Commedia dell’Arte for the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the evolution of Commedia dell’Arte in the Asia-Pacific where through the process of reinvention and recreation it has emerged as a variety of hybrids and praxes, all in some ways faithful to the recreated European genre. The contributors in this collection chart their own training in the field and document their strategies for engaging with this form of theatre. In doing so, this book examines the current thoughts, ideas, and perceptions of Commedia – a long-standing theatre genre, originating in a European-based collision between neo-classical drama and oral tradition. The contributing artists, directors, teachers, scholars and theatre-makers give insight into working styles, performance ideas, craft techniques and ways to engage an audience for whom Commedia is not part of their day-to-day culture. The volume presents case studies by current practitioners, some who have trained under known Commedia ‘masters’ (e.g. Lecoq, Boso, Mazzone-Clementi and Fava) and have returned to their country of origin where they have developed their performance and teaching praxis, and others (e.g. travelling from Europe to Japan, Thailand, Singapore and China) who have discovered access points to share or teach Commedia in places where it was previously not known. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Performing arts, Italian studies, and History as well as practitioners in Commedia dell’Arte.
Commedia dell'Arte in Context
Commedia dell'Arte in Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commedia dell'Arte in Context write by Christopher B. Balme. This book was released on 2018-04-05. Commedia dell'Arte in Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The commedia dell'arte, the improvised Italian theatre that dominated the European stage from 1550 to 1750, is arguably the most famous theatre tradition to emerge from Europe in the early modern period. Its celebrated masks have come to symbolize theatre itself and have become part of the European cultural imagination. Over the past twenty years a revolution in commedia dell'arte scholarship has taken place, generated mainly by a number of distinguished Italian scholars. Their work, in which they have radically separated out the myth from the history of the phenomenon remains, however, largely untranslated into English (or any other language). The present volume gathers together these Italian and English-speaking scholars to synthesize for the first time this research for both specialist and non-specialist readers. The book is structured around key topics that span both the early modern period and the twentieth-century reinvention of the commedia dell'arte.
Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte
Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte write by Anne MacNeil. This book was released on 2003. Music and Women of the Commedia dell' Arte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music and the Commedia dell'Arte narrates the story of the most famous commedia dell'arte troupe of the late Renaissance, focusing in particular on the representation of women on stage and on the role of music-making in their craft. In its thorough integration of the fields of music history,theatre history, performance studies, women's studies and Classics, this is the first comprehensive analysis of the leading actresses of the Compagnia dei Gelosi and their contributions to the Renaissance stage. Including an extensive survey of documents concerning comedians, their patrons,colleagues and audiences, Music and the Commedia dell'Arte provides a rich context for the study of musical-theatrical performance before the advent of opera and re-defines our perceptions of women, music and theatre in the Renaissance.
Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte
Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte write by Emily Wilbourne. This book was released on 2016-11-21. Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.
A History of Italian Theatre
A History of Italian Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Italian Theatre write by Joseph Farrell. This book was released on 2006-11-16. A History of Italian Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of Italian theatre from its origins to the the time of this book's publication in 2006. The text discusses the impact of all the elements and figures integral to the collaborative process of theatre-making. The distinctive nature of Italian theatre is expressed in the individual chapters by highly regarded international scholars.
