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Book Synopsis Opera and Sovereignty by : Martha Feldman
Download or read book Opera and Sovereignty written by Martha Feldman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment.
Book Synopsis Murder at the Opera by : D. M. Quincy
Download or read book Murder at the Opera written by D. M. Quincy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a nobleman's mistress is gunned down on the steps of the Covent Garden opera house, brilliant adventurer Atlas Catesby discovers a sinister family connection that compels him to investigate. London, 1815. Amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby is about to discover the dark side of the bright lights. His long-awaited night at the opera with Lady Lilliana ends abruptly when a notorious courtesan is shot to death in Covent Garden. The infamous victim was the mistress of the powerful Marquess of Vessey. Atlas believes that the marquess--his former brother in law--is responsible for the long-ago death of Atlas's sister, Phoebe. Atlas seizes the opportunity to potentially avenge his sister's death. But his inquiry is complicated when Phoebe's grown son implores Atlas to help prove Vessey's innocence. Plunging into the cutthroat backstage life of the theatre community, the adventurer and the noblewoman soon discover that ruthless professional rivalries can escalate into violence, setting the stage for death in Murder at the Opera, D. M. Quincy's third riveting Atlas Catesby mystery set in Regency England.
Download or read book No End to Her written by Martha Nochimson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santa Barbara General Hospital Days of our lives.
Book Synopsis The Victor Book of the Opera by : Samuel Holland Rous
Download or read book The Victor Book of the Opera written by Samuel Holland Rous and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opera written by Albert Ellery Bergh and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Opera Guide. A Concise Description of Plot and Incidents of the Principal Operas, with Brief Biographical Notices of Eminent Singers by : Edward Harrison Barker
Download or read book The Opera Guide. A Concise Description of Plot and Incidents of the Principal Operas, with Brief Biographical Notices of Eminent Singers written by Edward Harrison Barker and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Victor Book of the Opera by : Victor Talking Machine Company
Download or read book The Victor Book of the Opera written by Victor Talking Machine Company and published by Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Company. This book was released on 1912 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Singing in Style by : Martha Elliott
Download or read book Singing in Style written by Martha Elliott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muziekhistorisch en musicologisch overzicht van de klassieke solozang vanaf de barok tot heden.
Download or read book The Victor Book of the Opera written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opera, History and Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Dance On Sands written by Marta Becket and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Marta Becket . . . "Tears came to my eyes. Marta represented to me the spirit of the individual. The spirit of the theater. The spirit of creativity." -Ray Bradbury, Author "Marta's paintings have a degree of humor and playfulness. The use of color is outstanding and tell of a generosity, talent and skill." -Red Skelton, Comedian/Artist "Long before anybody invented the term performance art, Marta Becket was doing it, in an abandoned opera house in Death Valley Junction. She restored it and it restored her. With serene tenacity, she set down roots, working hard for decades, caring as well for endangered animals, including wild burros, until the world began coming to her." -Boston Globe "Becket's saga epitomizes the eternal struggle of the artist for personal expression." - Chicago Tribune "The forthright artist went on with what essentially was her own private show. She choreographed and performed her own dances, at first to an audience of tumbleweeds. But over the course of years, she painstakingly developed another audience - the Renaissance-looking crowd she painted in elaborate murals to fill her Amargosa Opera House with gawking spectators. Eventually Becket was discovered by living audiences, mostly appreciators of art, who have gone to great lengths to see her work. Becket overcame much and worked hard to get where she is today, a relatively unknown artist in the middle of nowhere. But she loves her unique place in the world." -San Francisco Chronicle "If this were fiction - if Marta Becket were not a real person - then the whole oddball-in-the-desert scenario might seem like something dreamed up by David Lynch. Or Sam Shepard. But Becket is very much the real thing, and she has made quite a name for herself out there in the desert." -Northern California Bohemian "On stage there is a warble to her voice. She is thin, but her expressions are as varied and fluid as shifting sand dunes. To say that Becket was beautiful when she was young, as evidenced by photographs in her program is to do a disservice to the beauty she still holds." -Los Angeles Times "There's something really wonderful about the fact that she picked the most desolate spot in America to do this. It says you can have your life on your own terms, but you'll have to sacrifice. It says the process is the point. And people come away from there inspired." -Todd Robinson, Director, Amargosa "There is indisputably a whiff of eccentricity about Ms. Becket's enterprise. And if one might expect the woman herself - dark haired, trim, with the visible sinews of a dancer - to carry an eccentric air, she doesn't, though there is a faint haughtiness of the artiste about her. Ms. Becket is self-aware, perfectly willing to admit that her shows and her painting have been her obsessions. In explanation of what amounts to her self-imposed exile, she said, 'I couldn't have created another world anyplace else'." -New York Times "Death Valley holds a special mystique for Europeans. You can find them among the locals in the 120-seat house, along with the occasional journalist or ghost-hunter- the place has a reputation for being haunted." -Dance Magazine "Becket's paintings are marvelous and will live long after she is gone. The paintings are worth the long drive." -The Connected Traveler
Book Synopsis The Complete Opera Book by : Gustave Kobbé
Download or read book The Complete Opera Book written by Gustave Kobbé and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories of the Operas by : Ethel Shubert
Download or read book Stories of the Operas written by Ethel Shubert and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Songs from the Operas for Tenor by : Henry Edward Krehbiel
Download or read book Songs from the Operas for Tenor written by Henry Edward Krehbiel and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Victrola Book of the Opera by : Samuel Holland Rous
Download or read book The Victrola Book of the Opera written by Samuel Holland Rous and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castrato written by Martha Feldman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella. Sacrifice in turn was inseparable from the system of patriarchy—involving teachers, patrons, colleagues, and relatives—whereby castrated males were produced not as nonmen, as often thought nowadays, but as idealized males. Yet what captivated audiences and composers—from Cavalli and Pergolesi to Handel, Mozart, and Rossini—were the extraordinary capacities of castrato voices, a phenomenon ultimately unsettled by Enlightenment morality. Although the castrati failed to survive, their musicality and vocality have persisted long past their literal demise.
Download or read book The Victrola Book of the Opera written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
