Opera in performance : analyzing the performative dimension of opera productions
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Opera in performance : analyzing the performative dimension of opera productions
(Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
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Note
Originally published: Berlin : Theater der Zeit, 2017
Includes bibliographical refrences (p. [168]-182) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.
What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.
This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction Opera and the Performative
Part 1 Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 1 Beyond Interpretation
Chapter 2 Beyond Semiotics: The Interplay of Representation and Presence
Chapter 3 Theories of Performance and the Performative
Chapter 4 The Entanglement of the Senses: Premises from Perception Theory
Part 2 Analytical Approaches
Chapter 5 Symbioses and Contestations: The Interaction of Auditory and Visual Elements
Chapter 6 The Interplay of Representation and Presence in Performance
Chapter 7 The Voice and the Body in Opera Performances
Chapter 8 Rhythm and Experiences of Time in Opera
Chapter 9 The Future of Opera? On the Mediated Experience and Distribution of Opera Performances
Conclusion
List of Performances Discussed
Bibliography
Index
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