"Don Giovanni" Captured - Performance, Media, Myth (Hardcover)

"Don Giovanni" Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique-an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In "Don Giovanni" Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century's worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Richard Will
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-81541-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera Promotions
LSN:	0-226-81541-2
Barcode:	9780226815411

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