Author: Eric Walter WhitePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Rise of English Opera
Author: Eric Walter WhiteA History of English Opera
Author: Eric Walter WhitePublisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571107889
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Appendix: "Rules and Regulations of the Royal English Opera"p.439ff
The Rise of English Opera, Etc. [With Plates.].
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Author: Eric Walter WhiteThe rise of English opera
Author: Eric W. WhiteTwentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain
Author: Irene MorraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317005856
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British composers, informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed, British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often, operatic adaptations are compared superficially to their original sources. This is a particular problem for British opera, which has become increasingly defined artistically by the literary sophistication of its narrative sources. The resulting collaborations between literary figures and composers have crucial implications for the development of both opera and literature. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain reveals the importance of this literary involvement in operatic adaptation to literature and literary studies, to music and musicology, and to cultural and theoretical studies.
“A” History of English Opera
Author: Eric Walter WhiteMusic and Nationalism
Author: Cecil ForsythPublisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Rise and Development of Opera
Author: Joseph GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A History of Opera
Author: Carolyn AbbatePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089533
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
“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.
The Rise of Cantonese Opera
Author: Wing Chung NgPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097092
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Defined by its distinct performance style, stage practices, and regional and dialect based identities, Cantonese opera originated as a traditional art form performed by itinerant companies in temple courtyards and rural market fairs. In the early 1900s, however, Cantonese opera began to capture mass audiences in the commercial theaters of Hong Kong and Guangzhou--a transformation that changed it forever. Wing Chung Ng charts Cantonese opera's confrontations with state power, nationalist discourses, and its challenge to the ascendancy of Peking opera as the country's preeminent "national theatre." Mining vivid oral histories and heretofore untapped archival sources, Ng relates how Cantonese opera evolved from a fundamentally rural tradition into urbanized entertainment distinguished by a reliance on capitalization and celebrity performers. He also expands his analysis to the transnational level, showing how waves of Chinese emigration to Southeast Asia and North America further re-shaped Cantonese opera into a vibrant part of the ethnic Chinese social life and cultural landscape in the many corners of a sprawling diaspora.