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Author | : Michael Ewans |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351555766 |
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Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.
Author | : Harrison Birtwistle |
Publisher | : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Retelling of the myth of the Cretan Minotaur, this book considers the inner world of the Minotaur himself, and suggests a dark and compelling reason for Ariadne's intense relationship with Theseus.
Author | : Mark-Anthony Turnage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ethel Rose Peyser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Opera |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : N. Petsal_s-Diom_d_s |
Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781574670592 |
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(Amadeus). In this award-winning biography, Petsalis-Diomidis closely examines Maria Callas's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945. These years have been largely absent from previous works about Callas, but were crucial to her professional and personal growth. The author examines her professional development, her studies, her concertizing, and her work with the Greek National Opera. He also recounts Callas's daily life, her friendships, her rivalries at the conservatory, and her personal life. Though it is a detailed historical biography, the writing and pace are novelistic. HARDCOVER.
Author | : Mark-Anthony Turnage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Oedipus (Greek mythology) |
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Author | : Alfred Bates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Download The Drama and Opera: Greece and Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jacques Offenbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : M. Owen Lee |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780802085801 |
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Richard Wagner's knowledge of and passion for Greek drama was so profound that for Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner was Aeschylus come alive again. Surprisingly little has been written about the pervasive influence of classical Greece on the quintessentially German master. In this elegant and masterfully argued book, renowned opera critic Father Owen Lee describes for the contemporary reader what it might have been like to witness a dramatic performance of Aeschylus in the theatre of Dionysus in Athens in the fifth century B.C. something that Wagner himself undertook to do on several occasions, imagining a performance of The Oresteia in his mind, reading it aloud to his friends, providing his own commentary, and relating the Greek classic drama to his own romantic view. Father Lee also uses Wagner's writings on Greece and entries from his wife's diaries to cast new light on Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal, and especially the mighty Ring cycle, where Wagner made extensive use of Greek elements to give structural unity and dramatic credibility to his Nordic and Germanic myths. No opera fan, argues Father Lee, can really understand Wagner saving Brünhilde without knowing the Athena who, in Greek drama, first brought justice to Athens. Written with a clarity and depth of knowledge that have characterized all Father Lee's books on the classics of Greece and Rome and made his six other volumes of opera bestsellers, Athena Sings traces the profound influence an influence few music lovers are aware of that Greek theatre and culture had on the most German of composers and his revolutionary musical dramas.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Lysistrata (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : |
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