Author: New England Opera Theater Publisher: ISBN: Category : Boston (Mass.) Languages : en Pages :
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This collection of papers relating to the New England Opera Theater includes programs spanning the years 1946-1960, a Report by the artistic director from 1948-1949, an invitation to an Operalogue by Boris Goldovsky on Monday, April 11 (1949 or 1955), a promotional sheet from1960, New England Opera Theater : the first fifteen years : 1946-1961 (a promotional booklet), and a libretto and souvenir book for Cimarosa's The secret marriage (English libretto by Sarah Caldwell and Boris Goldovsky).
Author: Nancy Yunhwa Rao Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252099001 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 434
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Awards: Irving Lowens Award, Society for American Music (SAM), 2019 Music in American Culture Award, American Musicological Society (AMS), 2018 Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2018 Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Media, Visual, and Performance Studies, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2019 The Chinatown opera house provided Chinese immigrants with an essential source of entertainment during the pre–World War II era. But its stories of loyalty, obligation, passion, and duty also attracted diverse patrons into Chinese American communities Drawing on a wealth of new Chinese- and English-language research, Nancy Yunhwa Rao tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks and migrations that made Chinese opera a part of North American cultures. Rao unmasks a backstage world of performers, performance, and repertoire and sets readers in the spellbound audiences beyond the footlights. But she also braids a captivating and complex history from elements outside the opera house walls: the impact of government immigration policy; how a theater influenced a Chinatown's sense of cultural self; the dissemination of Chinese opera music via recording and print materials; and the role of Chinese American business in sustaining theatrical institutions. The result is a work that strips the veneer of exoticism from Chinese opera, placing it firmly within the bounds of American music and a profoundly American experience.
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Author: Opera New England
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Author: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Author: Nancy Yunhwa Rao
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