Verdi in Performance

Zusatztext Anyone who minds about Verdi will find much here of interest. Klappentext This collection of essays addresses the issue of how to make Verdi's operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. Here, both scholars and music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as "authentic" staging, performance practice, and the role of critical editions. Zusammenfassung This anthology of essays by leading Verdi scholars and practitioners, which grew out of an international conference, is essential reading for anyone interested in the way Verdi's operas are performed. It is a lively debate on 'authentic' staging, performance practice, Verdi's ballet scores, and critical editions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alison Latham, Roger Parker: The Pains and Pleasures of Liberation PART I STAGING VERDI 3: Andrew Porter: In Praise of the Pragmatic 4: David Rosen: On Staging that Matters 5: John Rosselli: 'Trust the tale, not the teller' 6: Mike Ashman: Misinterpreting Verdian Dramaturgy: History and Grand Opera PART II INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL PERFORMANCE 8: Clive Brown: On 'Exactly what is written' 9: Mark Elder: The Rubber Band PART III VERDI AND THE BALLET 11: Kathleen K Hansell: Ballet in Italy: the Background to Verdi 12: Gunhilde Oberzaucher-Schuller: Milan and Paris: a Lastin Dialogue 13: Jose Sasportes: A Conflict of Interests 14: Marian Smith: Drawing the Audience in: the Theatre and the Ballroom 15: Maribeth Clark: The Feminization of Ballet 16: Rebecca Harris-Warrick: 'Reading' Ballet PART IV EDITIONS AND PERFORMANCE 18: Francesco Degrada: Critical Editions and Critical Performance 19: Gabriele Dotto: With Real Bullets in Tosca 20: Stefano Castelvecchi: The 'Textualization' of Opera APPENDIX Chronology of Verdi's Life and Times

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alison Latham, Alison (Editor of the Oxford Companion to Latham, Alison Parker Latham
• Mitarbeit: Alison Latham (Herausgeber), Latham Alison (Herausgeber), Roger Parker (Herausgeber), Parker Roger (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780198167358
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816735-8
• Seiten: 216
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Musik > Musikgeschichte; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Romanticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music