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Opera and the Novel

Author : Michael Halliwell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004485228
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Opera and the Novel written by Michael Halliwell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James offers the first full-length study of the theory and practice of the adaptation of fiction into opera: the transference of a work from one medium to another – metaphrasis – is its point of departure. Starting with a survey of the current thinking regarding the nexus between words and music with specific reference to operatic adaptation of existing literary works, it traces the four-hundred-year history of opera, demonstrating that the novel has become increasingly attractive to librettists and composers as an operatic source. As the resources of modern music theatre have increased in sophistication, so too have the possibilities for an expanded engagement with complex fictional works. The intricate relationship between fictional and musical narrative is examined: the proposition that the orchestra assumes much of the function of the narrator in fiction is explored. The second section is a detailed examination of eight operatic works based on Henry James’s fiction. It is opera’s unique capability to present the intense emotional and psychological situations central to James’s fiction as well as the ability to engage with his synthesis of melodrama and psychological ambiguity which makes James’s work peculiarly amenable to operatic adaptation. Composers who have used James as a source include Douglas Moore, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Pasatieri, Donald Hollier, Thea Musgrave, Philip Hagemann and Dominick Argento. The operas discussed represent a contemporary critical and often self-conscious engagement with the art form itself as well as illustrating current adaptive strategies, and suggest ways in which new operatic paths may be forged. This volume is of relevance to students and scholars of English literature and opera as well as readers who take an interest in intermedial research and the question of adaptation in general.

Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust

Author : Cormac Newark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139495852
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust written by Cormac Newark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories: widely mentioned in the same breath as Frankenstein and Dracula. Yet the fame of this novel is based almost entirely on the various film versions, while the original book has been largely ignored and is rarely in print. An Accelerated Reader® Title

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613104081
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

Author : Gustav KobbŽ
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465542868
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation by : Gustav KobbŽ

Download or read book The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation written by Gustav KobbŽ and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÊOf the three standard schools, the Italian is the most frankly melodious. When at its best, Italian vocal melody ravishes the senses. When not at its best, it merely tickles the ear and offends common sense. "A•da" was a turning point in Italian music. Before Verdi composed "A•da," Italian opera, despite its many beauties, was largely a thing of temperament, inspirationally, but often also carelessly set forth. Now, Italian opera composers no longer accept any libretto thrust at them. They think out their scores more carefully; they produce works in which due attention is paid to both vocal and orchestral effect. The older composers still represented in the repertoire are Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. The last-named, however, also reaches well over into the modern school of Italian opera, whose foremost living exponent is Puccini. Although Rameau (1683-1764), whose "Castor and Pollux" held the stage until supplanted by Gluck's works, was a native of France, French opera had for its founder the Italian, Lully; and one of its chief exponents was the German, Meyerbeer. Two foreigners, therefore, have had a large share in developing the school. It boasts, however, many distinguished nativesÑHalŽvy, Auber, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet. In the French school of opera the instrumental support of the voice is far richer and the combination of vocal and instrumental effect more discriminating than in the old school of Italian opera. A first cousin of Italian opera, the French, nevertheless, is more carefully thought out, sometimes even too calculated; but, in general, less florid, and never indifferent to the librettist and the significance of the lines he has written and the situations he has evoked. Massenet is, in the truest sense, the most recent representative of the school of Meyerbeer and Gounod, for Bizet's "Carmen" is unique, and DŽbussy's "PellŽas et MŽlisande" a wholly separate manifestation of French art for the lyric stage. The German school of opera is distinguished by a seriousness of purpose that discards all effort at vocal display for itself alone, and strives, in a score, well-balanced as between voice and orchestra, to express more forcibly than could the spoken work, the drama that has been set to music.

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587261435
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Phantom of the Opera, a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House and creating a number of strange and mysterious events to further the career of a beautiful young singer, is today regarded as one of the most famous of all horror stories: widely mentioned in the same breath as Frankenstein and Dracula. Yet the fame of this novel is based almost entirely on the various film versions, while the original book has been largely ignored and is rarely in print. An Accelerated Reader® Title.

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780394938479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in his desperation to have his love returned, embarks on some terrifying means towards that end.

Wagner and the Novel

Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401207968
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Wagner and the Novel written by Hugh Ridley and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner’s operas and the nineteenth century novel, including comparisons with Rigoletto and Der Rosenkavalier in their evolution from other forms. It discusses matters of genre and national tradition, placing Wagner’s works in the heritage of the European Enlightenment. Comparisons of Wagner’s works with the novel have been fleeting, denoting only their length and complexity. Examining in principle and in detail the proximity of Wagner’s themes and techniques to the practices of the Realist novel, this study sheds original light on major issues of Wagner’s works and on opera as genre. The book trawls extensively in two research fields. It looks to the established Wagner literature for understandings of the musical procedures which map his works onto the prose fiction, while reading Wagner’s operas against the backdrop of the European novel, rather than against German Romantic fiction. It revisits Adorno’s music sociology and his seminal study of Wagner, but repositions many elements of his argument. Unusually, this book adopts a critical stance to Nietzsche’s view of Wagner. In marked contrast to Nietzsche, the study regards parallels between Wagner and Flaubert as an enrichment of our understanding of Wagner’s achievement. The book concludes with a major question of European cultural history: why it is that – in common with Italy, but in marked contrast to France or England – Germany’s most representative works in the nineteenth century are operas rather than novels.

When Literature Becomes Opera

Author : Leonard Rosmarin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900464766X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book When Literature Becomes Opera written by Leonard Rosmarin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other art form in the Western world has polarized opinion to the same extent as opera. While its devotees can be almost fanatical in their enthusiasm, its detractors will dismiss lyric theatre as an impossible hybrid. Literature and music undermine one another when brought together, they maintain. Their contempt for the genre is more often than not motivated by the supposedly mediocre quality of the librettos or scripts to which the works are set as well as the implausibility of characters singing instead of speaking their emotions. But what if these much maligned scripts provided composers with the raw material necessary to convert stereotypes into exemplary figures and place them in powerfully dramatic situations? What if the unreality of opera opened up gripping vistas onto the reality of human emotions? When Literature Becomes Opera strives to answer these questions by analyzing the artistic process through which literary texts are simplified then transformed into lyric dramas. Using as examples eight outstanding operas inspired by works of French writers (Rigoletto, La traviata, Carmen, Thaïs, La Bohème, Tosca, Pelléas et Mélisande and Dialogues des Carmélites), this study demonstrates that a libretto, like a film script, enters into a partnership with the art it serves: music. When the quality of the partnership is high, all of opera's liabilities that purists take pleasure in deriding become stunning assets.

The Phantom of the Opera (Collins Classics)

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007477430
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera (Collins Classics) written by Gaston Leroux and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation

Author : Gustav Kobbe
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780353564626
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Opera Book: The Stories of the Operas, Together with 400 of the Leading Airs and Motives in Musical Notation written by Gustav Kobbe and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532745102
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why buy our paperbacks? Unabridged (100% Original content) Printed in USA on High Quality Paper 30 Days Money Back Guarantee Standard Font size of 10 for all books Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping BEWARE OF LOW-QUALITY SELLERS Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. About The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909, to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in April 1910 by Pierre Lafitte. The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. Nowadays, it is overshadowed by the success of its various stage and film adaptations. The most notable of these are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

The Phantom of the Opera

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0553213768
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Phantom of the Opera written by Gaston Leroux and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaston Leroux is one of the originators of the detective story, and The Phantom of the Opera is his tour de force, as well as being the basis for the hit Broadway musical. A superb suspense story and a dark tale of obsession, The Phantom of the Opera has thrilled and entertained audiences in adaptations throughout the century. This new translation—the first completely modern and Americanized translation—unfurls the full impact of this classic thriller for modern readers. It offers a more complete rendering of the terrifying figure who emerges from the depths of the glorious Paris Opera House to take us into the darkest regions of the human heart. After the breathtaking performance of the lovely Christine Daae and her sudden disappearance, the old legend of the “opera ghost” becomes a horrifying reality as the ghost strikes out with increasing frequency and violence—always with the young singer at the center of his powerful obsession. Leroux has created a masterwork of love and murder—and a tragic figure who awakens our deepest and most forbidden fears. This is the only complete, unabridged modern Americanized translation available. Lowell Bair is the acclaimed translator of such Bantam Classics as Madame Bovary, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Candide.

Romantic Opera and Literary Form

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520045088
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Opera and Literary Form written by Peter Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that opera has more affinity to the novel than to drama and examines opera's relationship to poetry, allegory, Shakespeare, dance, and painting

Situating Opera

Author : Herbert Lindenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139492586
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Situating Opera written by Herbert Lindenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study.

Madrigal

Author : Jennifer Linforth
Publisher : Excalibur
ISBN 13 : 9780981557335
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Madrigal written by Jennifer Linforth and published by Excalibur. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik fakes his death and vows the Phantom would never again haunt the Opera Garnier. His heart beats for two opposite women: Christine, who he longs to love, and Anna, the woman who saw beyond his bitter soul to the man beneath the mask.

Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism

Author : Jerome Winter
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169451
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism written by Jerome Winter and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.