The Legacy of Opera : Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance
Dominic Symonds (Editor), Pamela Karantonis (Editor), International Federation for Theatre Research
The Legacy of Opera: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance is the first volume in a series of books compiled by the Music Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. The series explores the widening of the meaning of the term ""music theatre"" to reflect new ways of thinking about this creative practice beyond the genres circumscribed by discourses of theatre studies and musicology. Specifically it interrogates the experience of music theatre and its performance energies for contemporary audiences who engage with the emergence of new expressive idi
1 online resource (269 pages) : chiefly color illustrations, music
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Empty houses, booming voices / Dominic Symonds and Pamela Karantonis
Is this still opera? Media operas as productive provocations / Bianca Michaels
A new glimmer of light : Opera, metaphysics and mimesis / Nicholas Till
The singing body in the Tragédie Lyrique of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France : Voice, theatre, speech, pleasure / Sarah Nancy
Performing affect in seventeenth-century opera : Process, reception, transgression / Clemens Risi
The Violettas of Patti, Muzio and Callas : Style, interpretation and the questions of legacy / Magnus Tessing Schneider. The tenor in decline? Narratives of nostalgia and the performativity of the operatic tenor / Pamela Karantonis
The Threepenny Opera : Performativity and the Brechtian presence between music and theatre / Michael Eigtved
The acousmêtre on stage and screen : The power of the bodiless voice / Jeongwon Joe
Dancing in the twilight : On the borders of music and the scenic / David Roesner
Turkish post-migrant "opera" in Europe : A socio-historical perspective on aurality / Pieter Verstraete
"Powerful spirit" : Notes on some practice as research / Dominic Symonds
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Notes on contributors
"IFRT/FIRT Music Theatre Working Group."