The Oxford Handbook of Opera

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-762545-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1790 g

What is opera? Contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Opera respond to this deceptively simple question with a rich and compelling exploration of opera's adaption to changing artistic and political currents. Fifty of the world's most respected scholars cast opera as a fluid entity that continuously reinvents itself in a reflection of its patrons, audience, and creators. The synergy of power, performance, and identity recurs thematically throughout the volume's major topics: Words, Music, and Meaning; Performance and Production; Opera and Society; and Transmission and Reception. Individual essays engage with repertoire from Monteverdi, Mozart, and Meyerbeer to Strauss, Henze, and Adams in studies of composition, national identity, transmission, reception, sources, media, iconography, humanism, the art of collecting, theory, analysis, commerce, singers, directors, criticism, editions, politics, staging, race, and gender. The title of the penultimate section, Opera on the Edge, suggests the uncertainty of opera's future: is opera headed toward catastrophe or have social and musical developments of the last hundred years stimulated something new and exciting, and, well, operatic? In an epilogue to the volume, a contemporary opera composer speaks candidly about opera composition today.

The Oxford Handbook of Opera is an essential companion to scholars, educators, advanced students, performers, and knowledgeable listeners: those who simply love opera.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenwald, Helen M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Helen M. Greenwald

- PART I WHAT IS OPERA?

- 1. What is Opera?

- Tim Carter

- 2. Genre

- Emanuele Senici

- 3. Musical Theater(s)

- Derek B. Scott

- 4. Operatorio?

- Monika Hennemann

- 5. The Concept of Opera

- Lydia Goehr

- PART II WORDS, MUSIC, AND MEANING

- The Libretto and the Score

- 6. Oft-Told Tales

- Vincent Giroud

- 7. The Language of National Style

- Marina Frolova-Walker

- 8. Musical Dramaturgy

- Damien Colas

- 9. Versification

- Andreas Giger

- 10. The German Libretto of the Early Nineteenth Century

- John Warrack

- 11. Analysis

- William Drabkin

- Humanism, Verisimilitude, and Voice

- 12. Opera between the Ancients and the Moderns

- Wendy Heller

- 13. Verisimilitude

- Thomas Betzwieser

- 14. Voice

- Michal Grover-Friedlander

- 15. Characterization

- Julian Rushton

- 16. Meaning

- Lawrence Kramer

- PART III PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION

- 17. Divas and Divos

- Hilary Poriss

- 18. Castrato Acts

- Martha Feldman

- 19. Rehearsal Practices

- Mark Everist

- 20. Acting

- Simon Williams

- 21. The Chorus

- Ryan Minor

- 22. The Orchestra

- Alessandro Di Profio

- 23. Dance

- Linda J. Tomko

- 24. Production Aesthetics and Materials

- Katherine Syer

- 25. Costumes

- Veronica Isaac

- 26. Regietheater/Director's Theater

- Ulrich Müller

- 27. Historically Informed Performance

- Mary Hunter

- PART IV OPERA AND SOCIETY

- 28. Opera Composition and Cultural Environment

- Marianne Betz

- 29. Patronage

- Valeria De Lucca

- 30. Audiences

- Georgia Cowart

- 31. Autographs, Memorabilia, and the Aesthetics of Collecting

- Daniela Macchione

- 32. Politics

- Marc A. Weiner

- 33. Religion

- Jesse Rosenberg

- 34. Race and Racism

- John Graziano

- 35. Gender

- Alexandra Wilson

- 36. Exoticism

- W. Anthony Sheppard

- 37. Censorship

- Francesco Izzo

- PART V TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION

- 38. How Opera Traveled

- Louise K. Stein

- 39. The Operatic Canon

- James Parakilas

- 40. Critics

- Paul Watt

- 41. Soundings Offstage

- Thomas Christensen

- 42. Visual Media

- Marcia J. Citron

- 43. Operatic Images

- Helen M. Greenwald

- 44. Sources

- Linda B. Fairtile

- 45. Reconstructions

- Charles S. Brauner

- 46. Editing Opera

- Patricia B. Brauner

- 47. Writing the History of Opera

- Philip Gossett

- PART VI OPERA ON THE EDGE

- 48. 1900-1945

- Joy H. Calico

- 49. After the Canon

- Robert Fink

- EPILOGUE

- 50. Composing Opera

- Jake Heggie

- Index of Musical Works

- General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen M. Greenwald is Chair of Music History & Musicology at New England Conservatory. She is the author of numerous articles on vocal music from the 18th -20th centuries and program notes for major arts organizations, such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera. She is the editor of the critical edition of Verdi's Attila (Ricordi and the University of Chicago Press, 2012) and co-editor of the critical edition of Rossini's Zelmira (Fondazione Rossini, 2005).