Divas and Scholars - 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 Divas and Scholars write by Philip Gossett. This book was released on 2008-09-15. Divas and Scholars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2007 Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the 2007 Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Divas and Scholars is a dazzling and beguiling account of how opera comes to the stage, filled with Philip Gossett’s personal experiences of triumphant—and even failed—performances and suffused with his towering and tonic passion for music. Writing as a fan, a musician, and a scholar, Gossett, the world's leading authority on the performance of Italian opera, brings colorfully to life the problems, and occasionally the scandals, that attend the production of some of our most favorite operas. Gossett begins by tracing the social history of nineteenth-century Italian theaters in order to explain the nature of the musical scores from which performers have long worked. He then illuminates the often hidden but crucial negotiations opera scholars and opera conductors and performers: What does it mean to talk about performing from a critical edition? How does one determine what music to perform when multiple versions of an opera exist? What are the implications of omitting passages from an opera in a performance? In addition to vexing questions such as these, Gossett also tackles issues of ornamentation and transposition in vocal style, the matters of translation and adaptation, and even aspects of stage direction and set design. Throughout this extensive and passionate work, Gossett enlivens his history with reports from his own experiences with major opera companies at venues ranging from the Metropolitan and Santa Fe operas to the Rossini Opera Festival at Pesaro. The result is a book that will enthrall both aficionados of Italian opera and newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.
Technology and the Diva
Technology and the Diva - 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 Technology and the Diva write by Karen Henson. This book was released on 2016-09-12. Technology and the Diva available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focuses on the operatic soprano as the diva and her relationships with technology from the 1820s to the digital age.
The Oxford Handbook of Opera
The Oxford Handbook of Opera - 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 The Oxford Handbook of Opera write by Helen M. Greenwald. This book was released on 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators.
Desi Divas
Desi Divas - 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 Desi Divas write by Christine Garlough. This book was released on 2013-02-21. Desi Divas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How South Asian American women have found expression and power in festival dances and theater
Divas on Screen
Divas on Screen - 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 Divas on Screen write by Mia Mask. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Divas on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.
