Unsettling opera : staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky / David J. Levin.
Unsettling opera : staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky / David J. Levin.
Unsettling opera : staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky / David J. Levin.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2007.
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N792.5023/1
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English
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Physical content
xix, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Dramaturgy and mise-en-scène -- Reading a staging/staging a reading : Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in performance -- Fidelity in translation : Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro -- Deconstructing Singspiel : Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Between sublimation and audaci...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander der Ze...
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Unsettling opera : staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky / David J. Levin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N792.5023/1
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74VKzvyvW04b
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0226475220 (cloth : alk. paper) :
9780226475226 (cloth : alk. paper) :
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792.5023
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991023401269702626
