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Tristan`s Shadow - Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner (Hardcover, New): Adrian Daub Tristan`s Shadow - Sexuality and the Total Work of Art after Wagner (Hardcover, New)
Adrian Daub
R1,444 Discovery Miles 14 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, and Siegfried. Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most important operatic productions - and created some of the most indelible characters ever to grace the stage. But over the course of his polarizing career, Wagner also composed nearly twenty volumes of writing on opera. His influential concept of Gesamtkunstwerk - the "total work of art" - famously and controversially offered a way to unify the different media of an opera into a coherent whole. Less well-known, however, are Wagner's strange theories on sexuality - like his ideas about erotic acoustics and the metaphysics of sexual difference. Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other developing fields of study that informed Wagner's world, Adrian Daub traces the influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, d'Albert, Schreker, and Strauss. For decades after Wagner's death, Daub writes, these composers continued to grapple with his ideas and with his overwhelming legacy, trying in vain to write their way out from Tristan's shadow.

Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses - From Mozart to Bellini (Paperback): Christina Fuhrmann Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses - From Mozart to Bellini (Paperback)
Christina Fuhrmann
R1,212 Discovery Miles 12 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'. The operas were translated into English, fitted with spoken dialogue, divested of much of their music, augmented with interpolations and frequently set to altered libretti. By the end of the period, the radical changes of earlier adaptations gave way to more faithful versions. In the first comprehensive study of these adaptations, Christina Fuhrmann shows how integral they are to our understanding of early nineteenth-century opera and the transformation of London's theatrical and musical life. This book reveals how these operas accelerated repertoire shifts in the London theatrical world, fostered significant changes in musical taste, revealed the ambiguities and inadequacies of copyright law and sparked intense debate about fidelity to the original work.

Cadmus Et Hermione, Tragedie Representee Devant S. M., A Saint Germain-En-Laye - , Le 5e Jour d'Aoust 1678 (French,... Cadmus Et Hermione, Tragedie Representee Devant S. M., A Saint Germain-En-Laye - , Le 5e Jour d'Aoust 1678 (French, Paperback)
Philippe Quinault
R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - Libretto zu Mozarts Singspiel in drei Aufzugen (German, Paperback): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,... Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - Libretto zu Mozarts Singspiel in drei Aufzugen (German, Paperback)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Gottlieb Stephanie
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kundry - la marginacion de la soberania femenina en el Parsifal wagneriano (Spanish, Paperback): Maria Lourdes Alonso Kundry - la marginacion de la soberania femenina en el Parsifal wagneriano (Spanish, Paperback)
Maria Lourdes Alonso; Maria Lourdes Alonso Gomez
R165 Discovery Miles 1 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rounding Wagner's Mountain - Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (Paperback): Bryan Gilliam Rounding Wagner's Mountain - Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (Paperback)
Bryan Gilliam
R1,038 Discovery Miles 10 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the post-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique. Addressing Wagner's cultural influence upon this legacy, Gilliam also offers new insights into the thematic and harmonic features that recur in Strauss's compositions.

Contracts, Wills, Marriages and Rings - Opera and Private Law (Paperback): Filippo Annunziata Contracts, Wills, Marriages and Rings - Opera and Private Law (Paperback)
Filippo Annunziata
R510 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R106 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Opera, for its inherent multimedia nature (text, music, scenography, ballet, representation), lends itself to interdisciplinary, including those that touch upon legal topics. The stories told in the great masterpieces of European opera are, frequently, based on facts relevant for criminal law. Murders, abductions, extortions, kidnappings, massacres, and other types of crimes have filled the stories of opera since its origin. In much of musical theatre, including the masterpieces by Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Wagner, and many others,there are, also issues addressed that touch upon the less obvious areas of private law: librettos often talk about contracts, donations, wills, weddings, family relationships, debts and money issues in general. In Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, Nemorino - in love with the beautiful but indifferent Adina - is the victim of a real contract scam perpetrated by Dulcamara. In La sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini, Elvino snatches the engagement ring given to Amina thinking she was unfaithful: he revokes a donation made in view of marriage, and maybe breaks a rule of law. In Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, one witnesses a sensational case of breach of contract, to be read in the light of the emergence, in the nineteenth century, of a new sensibility for market economy and the increasingly central value of contracts in social relations. In Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, there is a strange marriage vow, executed in order to guarantee the repayment of a debt.

Die Zauberfloete - Libretto (German, Paperback): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Emanuel Schikaneder Die Zauberfloete - Libretto (German, Paperback)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Emanuel Schikaneder
R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Opera - History, Power, Engagement (Paperback): Naomi Andre Black Opera - History, Power, Engagement (Paperback)
Naomi Andre
R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi Andre draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, Andre reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.

Wagner's Parsifal (Paperback): William Kinderman Wagner's Parsifal (Paperback)
William Kinderman
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career. This book offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar manuscript sources, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works. Fresh analytic perspectives are revealed, casting the dramatic meaning of Parsifal in a new light. Much debated aspects of the work, such as Kundry's death at the conclusion, are discussed in the context of its stage history. Path-breaking as well is Kinderman's analysis of the religious and ideological context of Parsifal. During the half-century after the composer's death, the Wagner family and the so-called Bayreuth circle sought to exploit Wagner's work for political purposes, thereby promoting racial nationalism and anti-Semitism. Hitherto unnoticed connections between Hitler and Wagner's legacy at Bayreuth are explored here, while differences between the composer's politics as an 1849 revolutionary and the later response of his family to National Socialism are weighed in a nuanced account. Kinderman combines new historical research, sensitive aesthetic criticism, and probing philosophical reflection in this most intensive examination of Wagner's culminating music drama.

Michel-Jean Sedaine - Theatre de la Revolution (French, Paperback): Mark Darlow Michel-Jean Sedaine - Theatre de la Revolution (French, Paperback)
Mark Darlow
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sentimental Opera - Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama (Paperback): Stefano Castelvecchi Sentimental Opera - Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama (Paperback)
Stefano Castelvecchi
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to explain the success of operas such as Paisiello's Nina as well as the extreme emotional reactions of their audiences. Like their counterparts in drama, literature and painting, these works brought to the fore serious contemporary problems including the widespread execution of deserters, the treatment of the insane, and anxieties relative to social and familial roles. They also developed a specifically operatic version of the dominant language of sensibility. This wide-ranging study involves such major cultural figures as Goldoni, Diderot and Mozart, while refining our understanding of the theatrical genre system of their time.

The Operas of Maurice Ravel (Paperback): Emily Kilpatrick The Operas of Maurice Ravel (Paperback)
Emily Kilpatrick
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortileges (1919-25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small oeuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.

Lohengrin (Grossdruck) - Romantische Oper in drei Aufzugen (German, Paperback): Richard Wagner Lohengrin (Grossdruck) - Romantische Oper in drei Aufzugen (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Fledermaus - Operette in drei Akten (German, Paperback): Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus - Operette in drei Akten (German, Paperback)
Johann Strauss
R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy (Paperback): Alessandra Campana Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy (Paperback)
Alessandra Campana
R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art, addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.

Goetterdammerung (German, Paperback): Richard Wagner, Richard Kleinmichel Goetterdammerung (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner, Richard Kleinmichel
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Ellen Harris Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Ellen Harris
R1,892 Discovery Miles 18 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed. In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explores the work's historical position in the Restoration theater, revealing its roots in seventeenth-century English theatrical and musical traditions, and carefully evaluates the surviving sources for the various readings they offer-of line designations in the text (who sings what), the vocal ranges of the soloists, the use of dance and chorus, and overall layout. It goes on to provide substantive analysis of Purcell's musical declamation and use of ground bass. In tracing the performance history of Dido and Aeneas, Harris presents an in-depth examination of the adaptations made by the Academy of Ancient Music at the end of the eighteenth century based on the surviving manuscripts. She then follows the growing interest in the creation of an "authentic" version in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through published editions and performance reviews, and considers the opera as an important factor in the so-called English Musical Renaissance. To a significant degree, the continuing fascination with Purcell's Dido and Aeneas rests on its apparent mutability, and Harris shows this has been inherent in the opera effectively from its origin.

Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (German, Paperback): Richard Wagner, Georg Barloesius Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner, Georg Barloesius
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ein deutscher Musiker in Paris (Grossdruck) - Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven und andere Novellen und Aufsatze (German,... Ein deutscher Musiker in Paris (Grossdruck) - Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven und andere Novellen und Aufsatze (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Das Rheingold (Grossdruck) - Der Rind der Nibelungen. Vorabend. Textbuch - Libretto (German, Paperback): Richard Wagner Das Rheingold (Grossdruck) - Der Rind der Nibelungen. Vorabend. Textbuch - Libretto (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner
R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Siegfried (Grossdruck) - Der Rind der Nibelungen. Zweiter Tag. Textbuch - Libretto (German, Paperback): Richard Wagner Siegfried (Grossdruck) - Der Rind der Nibelungen. Zweiter Tag. Textbuch - Libretto (German, Paperback)
Richard Wagner
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Zauberfloete - Libretto (German, Paperback): Johann Emanuel Schikaneder, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberfloete - Libretto (German, Paperback)
Johann Emanuel Schikaneder, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
R187 Discovery Miles 1 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Otello de Verdi - Un voyage au coeur de l'oeuvre (French, Paperback): Andre Tosel Otello de Verdi - Un voyage au coeur de l'oeuvre (French, Paperback)
Andre Tosel
R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture (Hardcover, New title): Laurence Senelick Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture (Hardcover, New title)
Laurence Senelick
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.

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