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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
xvii
I
Experiencing
Opera
CHAPTER
1
Going to the Opera House
Dressing for the Opera
5
Housing Opera
9
ON STAGE AND OFF: Designers and Directors
14
The Best Seat in the House
15
A Matter of Perspective
19
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
Adolphe Appia 24
Further Reading
24
For Research and Reflection
25
CHAPTER
2
The Orchestra Plays
27
Creating the Orchestra
29
Controlling the Rhythm
29
The Overture
36
ON STAGE AND OFF: The Conductor
37
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
Valéry Gergiev
38
Further Reading
40
For Research and Reflection
40
CHAPTER
3
The Cast Appears
43
Superhuman Voices in Human Roles
45
Singing Alone: Soloists
46
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Garcia, Baird, Upshaw
48
ON STAGE AND OFF: Vocal Ranges and Character Types
50
Singing Together
( 1 ) :
Ensembles
5 0
Singing Together
(2) :
The Chorus
S
2
Moving Together: The Ballet Corps
5 6
Further Reading
62
For Research and Reflection
62
CHAPTER
4
The Story Unfolds
65
ON STAGE AND OFF: Reading the Libretto and the Score
66
From Novel to Play to Libretto:
La Dame aux camélias
and
La traviata
67
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Giuseppe Verdi
68
From Play to Opera
(1):
Dramaturgy in
La traviata,
Act
1 72
From Play to Opera
(2):
Rhetoric in
La traviata,
Act
2,
scene
1 81
ON STAGE AND OFF: Rhetoric and Opera
83
Further Reading
91
For Research and Reflection
91
II
Opera
of the Seventeenth Century
93
CHAPTER
5
Opera in Princely Courts:
Florence and Mantua
95
Dramas of Identity, Drawn from Ovid
95
ON STAGE AND OFF: Repertory, Canon, and History
97
The Acting Style of Music: Monteverdi, Orfeo
102
Song and Speech Combined:
Possente spirto
109
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
Claudio
Monteverdi 111
Further Reading
118
For Research and Reflection
119
CHAPTER
6
Opera in Commercial Opera Houses: Venice
121
Producing Opera for the Public
124
Resistance and Surrender to Love:
Cavalli, Giasone
129
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Cristoforo Ivanovich
133
Pleasure and Moral Judgment: Monteverdi,
L incoronazione di
Poppea
136
Further Reading
142
For Research and Reflection
143
CHAPTER
7
National Opera: Paris and London
145
The Enterprise of Opera in France
145
ON STAGE AND OFF: The Making of a Hit Song
149
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Louis
XIV 153
The Operas of Lully
153
The Battlefield of Love
:
diceste
154
The Spell of Rhythm in Speech:
Meeste
and Atys
15 5
The Spell of Rhythm in Movement:
diceste
and Armide
160
National Opera Elsewhere: London
166
Purceii,
Dido and Aeneas
167
Further Reading
172
For Research and Reflection
172
III
Opera of the Eighteenth Century
175
CHAPTER
8
Opera on Classical Subjects
177
Handel and Italian Opera
17 7
The Rhetoric of Repetition:
L angue offeso
17 7
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
185
Rameau
and French
Opera
193
Accompaniment as Soundtrack: An Air in Dardanus
194
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Denis Diderot
198
Disruption and Authority: Hippolyte
et Aride
198
Gluck
and the Late Eighteenth Century
203
Obsession and Amplification:
Orfeo ed Euridice
and Alceste
204
Visions and Self-Sacrifice: The Iphigenia Operas
211
Further Reading
214
For Research and Reflection
215
CHAPTER
9
Opera on Comic Subjects
217
Seeing and Hearing Double
218
ON STAGE AND OFF: What s in a Term?
219
The Beggar
s
Opera
220
Pergolesi,
La serva padrona
223
The Comedy of Class and Gender Conflict: Three Mozart Operas
226
The Predatory Noble at Home: The Marriage of Figaro
226
The Predatory Noble at Large: Don Giovanni
235
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Victor
Maurei
245
The Male Prerogative of Testing Love:
Così fan tutte
246
Resolutions
253
Further Reading
255
For Research and Reflection
255
IV
Opera of the Nineteenth Century
257
CHAPTER
10
Opera on Themes of Political Conflict
259
A New Scale of Action and Sound
259
Political Melodrama Around the Time of the French Revolution
262
Prerevolutionary Melodrama:
Grétry,
Richard Coeur-de-Lion
262
IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
265
Postrevolutionary Melodrama: Beethoven,
Fidelio
266
Partisan Conflict and Grand Opera: Meyerbeer,
Les
Huguenots
271
ON STAGE AND OFF: Staging the Nation s Past
276
National Conflict and Grand Opera
288
Nationalism and Bel Canto: Bellini,
Norma
288
The Plight of the Exiled: Verdi,
Aida
290
Nation, People, and Ruler: Musorgsky, Boris Godunov
293
Further Reading
298
For Research and Reflection
298
CHAPTER
11
Opera on Themes of Domestic Conflict
301
Interracial Relationships: Bizet, Carmen
301
Trials of Young Love
307
Age and Class: Rossini, The Barber of Seville
307
Controlling
Families:
Donizetti,
Lucia di
Lammermoor 312
IN
THEIR OWN WORDS:
Gustave
Flaubert
315
Respectability and Disease: Verdi,
La traviata
315
Beyond the Reach of Family: Puccini,
La bohème
320
ON STAGE AND OFF: The Puccini Sound
322
Trials of Married Life:
Verdi,
Otelio
326
Further Reading
332
For Research and Reflection
332
CHAPTER
12
Opera on Legendary Themes
335
Struggles for a Soul
335
Pacts with the Devil: Gounod, Faust
336
ON STAGE AND OFF: Staging the Supernatural
337
Fulfilling a Legend: Wagner, The Flying Dutchman
339
Quest Legends
343
Interrupted Weddings
343
Glinka, Ruslan and Lyudmila
343
Rimsky-Korsakov, The Legend of Kitezh
346
Wagner, Lohengrin
350
Quests of Becoming:
Dvořák, Rusalka
355
Legendary Epic: Wagner, Die
Walküre 358
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Richard Wagner
359
Further Reading
370
For Research and Reflection
370
V
Opera of the Twentieth Century
and Beyond
373
CHAPTER
13
Human-Interest Opera
....................................................375
Struggles of the Poor
375
In the Guilded Age:
Janáček, Jenůfa
377
Between the World Wars
3 84
Berg, Wozzeck 384
Gershwin, Porgy
and Bess
390
Postwar Themes of Mob Justice
397
Operas of Floyd and Heggie
397
Britten, Peter Grimes
399
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Desmond Shawe-Taylor
400
The Unfulfilled Housewife: Shostakovich, The Lady Macbeth of
Mtsensk District
402
Ordinary People Caught Up in Great Events
407
Poulenc,
Dialogues of the Carmelites
407
Adams, The Death of Klinghoffer
413
Further Reading
420
For Research and Reflection
420
CHAPTER
14
Operas of Dreaming
423
Preview: Saariaho,
L Amour de loin
423
ON STAGE AND OFF: Operatic Technology and Media
425
Fantasies of Desire and Attachment
42 6
Fatal Attractions: Debussy,
Pelléas et Mélisande
426
Tests of Love
439
Strauss, Die
Frau ohne Schatten 439
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Hugo
von Hofmannsthal 441
Stravinsky, The Rake
s
Progress
444
Exemplary lives
450
Saints lives
450
Messian, Saint Francis of
Assisi
450
Schoenberg:
Moses and Aaron
453
Political Saints: Operas ofThomson, Glass, and Davis
458
Fantasy Worlds:
Ligeti,
Le Grand
Macabre
462
Dreams of Childhood: Ravel,
L Enfant et les
Sortileges
467
Further Reading
472
For Research and Reflection
473
Glossary A-
1
Notes A-6
Works Cited A-9
Credits A-
16
Index A-
17
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