Operatic migrations : transforming works and crossing boundaries

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Operatic migrations : transforming works and crossing boundaries

edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas

Ashgate, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Product of the 2001 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Summer research seminar, titled 'Opera in context: interdisciplinary approaches to creation, performance and reception'"(2001: Univ. of Iowa)

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : migrations and transformations / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
  • Venice : the cradle of (operatic) convention / Ellen Rosand
  • 'Je vous répondrez au troisième couplet' : eighteenth-century opéra comique and the demands of speech / Downing A. Thomas
  • From the comédie-française to the opéra : Figaro at the crossroads / by Tili Boon Cuillé
  • Ideological noises : opera criticism in early eighteenth-century France / Charles Dill
  • Transformations : Anfossi's Circe in Weimar / Waltraud Maierhofer
  • Roman republicanism and operatic heroines in Napoleonic Italy : Tarchi's La congiura pisoniana and Cimarosa's Gli Orazi e i Curiazi / Robert C. Ketterer
  • Ghostly voices : 'gothic opera' and failure of Gounod's La Nonne sanglante / Anne Williams
  • Mozart productions and the concept of Werktreue at London's Italian opera / Rachel Cowgill
  • The mirror of art and scenes of recognition : Wagner and Mann / Grace Kehler
  • Burlesques, barriers, borders, and boundaries / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
  • Local color : the representation of race in Carmen and Carmen Jones / Robert L.A. Clark
  • Operatic school for scandal / David J. Levin
  • Why (what? how? if?) opera studies? / Herbert Lindenberger
  • Epilogue / Downing A. Thomas

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