Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging
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Opera and its symbols : the unity of words, music, and staging
Yale University Press, c1990
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Opera & its symbols : the unity of words, music, & staging
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Bibliography: p. 231-238
Includes index
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ISBN 9780300047134
Description
The author is a noted musicologist, performer, and writer, known for his book "Wagner's Ring and Its Symbols", and for his reference work "The Interpretation of Early Music". In this book, he discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Only in this way, claims the author, can we be faithful to the conscious or unconscious symbolism invested in the work by the composer and librettist.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Principles: a totality of symbols
- words, music, and staging
- compatability on stage. Part 2 Practice: the start of opera
- Monteverdi
- the Age of Reason
- the Enlightenment
- a Masonic vision
- the romantic movement
- Verdi
- early Wagner
- Wagner's "Ring"
- further Wagner
- the last of Wagner
- realism
- Strauss
- the twentieth century
- the prospects for Opera.
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: pbk ISBN 9780300056617
Description
Robert Donington, the noted musicologist, performer, and writer, is famous for his influential and provocative book Wagner's "Ring" and Its Symbols, and for his indispensable reference work The Interpretation of Early Music. In this book he discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Only in this way, says Donington, can we be faithful to the conscious or unconscious symbolism invested in the work by the composer and librettist.
Starting form Carlyle's premise that "it is through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works and has his being," Donington interprets scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers. Time and again Donington sheds new light on operatic situations that are problematic or have become over-familiar. His lively and wide-ranging work reveals a deep knowledge and love of opera, combined with a rare insight into hidden meanings to be found in music, words, and action.
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