The Urbanization 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 Urbanization of Opera write by Anselm Gerhard. This book was released on 1998-08-15. The Urbanization of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital
Urban Politics and Cultural Capital - 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 Urban Politics and Cultural Capital write by Ma Haili. This book was released on 2015-02-28. Urban Politics and Cultural Capital available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the story of how a regional Chinese theatrical form, Shanghai Yue Opera, evolved from the all-male ‘beggar’s song’ of the early twentieth century to become the largest all-female opera form in the nation, only to face increasing pressure to survive under Chinese political and economic reforms in the new millennium. Previous publications have focused mainly on the historical development of Chinese theatre, with emphasis placed on Beijing opera. This is the first book to take an interdisciplinary approach to the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera, bringing history, arts management, central and regional government policy, urbanisation, gender, media, and theatre artistic development in one. Through the story of the Shanghai Yue Opera House market reform this book facilitates an understanding of the complex Chinese political economic situation in post-socialist China. This book suggests that as state art institutions are key organs of the Communist party gaining legitimacy, the vigorous evolution and struggle of the Shanghai Yue Opera house in fact directly mirrors the Communist Party internal turmoil in the new millennium to gain its own legitimacy and survival.
The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies - 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 Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies write by Nicholas Till. This book was released on 2012-10-18. The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive attempt to map the current field of opera studies by leading scholars in the discipline.
A History of Opera
A History 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 A History of Opera write by Carolyn Abbate. This book was released on 2015-09-08. A History of Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this “lucid and sweeping” (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer— physically, emotionally, intellectually—with its enduring power.
French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination
French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination - 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 French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination write by Sarah Hibberd. This book was released on 2009-04-30. French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.
