Opera as Institution - 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 Opera as Institution write by Cristina Scuderi. This book was released on 2020-02-18. Opera as Institution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together ten essays focusing on the diversity of operatic institutions, their protagonists, and historical fortunes in Europe from 1730 to 1917. Its aim is not to understand operatic institutions as locally distinct and isolated organizations, but rather to perceive them as a part of a historically fluctuating, transnational network: a network that was shaped among other things by individual professionals and groups in the opera business (and beyond), as well as by specific socio-cultural and political surroundings. The volume offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, including networks of cultural exchange, singers as agents in shaping institutional structures, and the influence of socio-cultural, diplomatic, and political factors on operatic production across international borders.
OPERA AS INSTITUTION
OPERA AS INSTITUTION - 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 OPERA AS INSTITUTION write by INGEBORG ZECHNER (EDS.) CRISTINA SCUDERI. This book was released on . OPERA AS INSTITUTION available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Black Opera
Black 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 Black Opera write by Naomi Andre. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Black Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
Operatic Geographies
Operatic Geographies - 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 Operatic Geographies write by Suzanne Aspden. This book was released on 2019-04-22. Operatic Geographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were established, that connection was expressed in the design and situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house’s physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy of examination. Operatic Geographies invites us to reconsider the opera house’s spatial production. Looking at opera through the lens of cultural geography, this anthology rethinks the opera house’s landscape, not as a static backdrop, but as an expression of territoriality. The essays in this anthology consider moments across the history of the genre, and across a range of geographical contexts—from the urban to the suburban to the rural, and from the “Old” world to the “New.” One of the book’s most novel approaches is to consider interactions between opera and its environments—that is, both in the domain of the traditional opera house and in less visible, more peripheral spaces, from girls’ schools in late seventeenth-century England, to the temporary arrangements of touring operatic troupes in nineteenth-century Calcutta, to rural, open-air theaters in early twentieth-century France. The essays throughout Operatic Geographies powerfully illustrate how opera’s spatial production informs the historical development of its social, cultural, and political functions.
Opera and the City
Opera and the City - 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 Opera and the City write by Andrea Goldman. This book was released on 2013-12-10. Opera and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.
