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From the very first opera performance in Italy in 1607, to the origins of some of the world’s most recognisable music, and modern day experimental productions, we’ll share a timeline of how opera has changed over the last 400 years.
5 lis 2014 · The central issue of the chapter is the need for historians to find ways to address opera’s “complete history,” including the interrelationships of composition, performance, and revisions when writing a historical narrative for opera.
7 lut 2002 · Now, in Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a sweeping, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. The chronologically organized primary sources include 115 passages--private letters, portions of libretti, literary criticism, satire, and poetry--from opera’s late Renaissance infancy through modern times.
22 paź 2014 · A lively chronicle of opera’s greatest hits and great men, A History of Opera is unlike previous histories of opera. Keenly aware of the difficulty of writing about opera’s history and of doing so ...
18 lip 2003 · When first published in 1947, A Short History of Opera immediately achieved international status as a classic in the field. Now, more than five decades later, this thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition informs and entertains opera lovers just as its predecessors have.
8 kwi 2021 · By breaking with the canonized forms of music history pedagogy, the subject content of opera history can be explored for instance through the architecture of temporal narrativization, as...
5 lis 2014 · The handbook organizes fifty contributions into eight large divisions: Foundations, The Libretto, Production, Performance, Opera and Society, Criticizing Opera, Transmission and Reception, and a postlude about contemporary opera and the future of opera.
