Unsettling opera: staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
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Main Author: Levin, David J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Dramaturgy and mise-en-scène -- Reading a staging/staging a reading : Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in performance -- Fidelity in translation : Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro -- Deconstructing Singspiel : Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Between sublimation and audacity : Verdi's Don Carlos -- Beyond the canon : Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules
What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera?s restlessness and volatility to life. Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical pract
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 254 pages)
ISBN:0226475255
9780226475257

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