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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2012
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139024976

Book description

With its powerful combination of music and theatre, opera is one of the most complex and yet immediate of all art forms. Once opera was studied only as 'a stepchild of musicology', but in the past two decades opera studies have experienced an explosion of energy with the introduction of new approaches drawn from disciplines such as social anthropology and performance studies to media theory, genre theory, gender studies and reception history. Written by leading scholars in opera studies today, this Companion offers a wide-ranging guide to a rapidly expanding field of study and new ways of thinking about a rich and intriguing art form, placing opera back at the centre of our understanding of Western culture over the past 400 years. This book gives lovers of opera as well as those studying the subject a comprehensive approach to the many facets of opera in the past and today.

Reviews

'In both the clarity of its organization and the uniformly high standard of the individual essays, this is an outstanding collection.'

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

'This is another useful addition to the Cambridge Companions to Music series, this time covering an area of music which has received less scholarly attention than others until the second half of the twentieth century … This is a scholarly book for the undergraduate or postgraduate student … although some opera fans of a more academic bent might find it of interest.'

Stella Thebridge Source: Reference Reviews

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Contents

  • Frontmatter
    pp i-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-vii
  • Contributors
    pp viii-x
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xi-xii
  • Introduction: opera studies today
    pp 1-22
  • Part One - Institutions
    pp 23-24
  • 1 - Opera, the state and society
    pp 25-52
  • 2 - The business of opera
    pp 53-69
  • 3 - The operatic event: opera houses and opera audiences
    pp 70-92
  • Part Two - Constituents
    pp 93-94
  • 4 - ‘Too much music’: the media of opera
    pp 95-116
  • 5 - Voices and singers
    pp 117-138
  • 6 - Opera and modes of theatrical production
    pp 139-158
  • 7 - Opera and the technologies of theatrical production
    pp 159-176
  • Part Three - Forms
    pp 177-178
  • 8 - The dramaturgy of opera
    pp 179-201
  • 9 - Genre and poetics
    pp 202-224
  • 10 - The operatic work: texts, performances, receptions and repertories
    pp 225-254
  • Part Four - Issues
    pp 255-256
  • 11 - Opera and gender studies
    pp 257-275
  • 12 - Opera and national identity
    pp 276-297
  • 13 - ‘An exotic and irrational entertainment’: opera and our others; opera as other
    pp 298-324
  • Further reading
    pp 325-337
  • Index
    pp 338-351

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