Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of
contemporary opera productions. What are the most striking and
decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to
stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily
presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones?
Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi
explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between
performers and the audience, representation and presence, the
familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical
descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings,
and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the
German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book
to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts
our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides
tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.
This book will particularly interest scholars and students in
theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities,
and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
| Release date: |
May 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Clemens Risi
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
188 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-64505-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-367-64505-X |
| Barcode: |
9780367645052 |
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