Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera

Roberta Montemorra Marvin editor Hilary Poriss editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:11th Feb '10

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Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera cover

Leading scholars investigate the ways in which operas by nineteenth-century Italian composers have been reshaped and revived over time.

Operatic works by Italian composers of the nineteenth century have undergone countless transformations since their premieres. This volume explores the ways in which operas by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, and their contemporaries have been reshaped and revived throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.Operatic works by Italian composers of the nineteenth century have undergone countless transformations since their premieres, shifting shape in response to a variety of new geographic, temporal, technological, and performative contexts. These enduring works by Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, and their contemporaries have myriad stories to tell. Fashions and Legacies reconstructs a selection of these stories, exploring ways in which operatic works have been reshaped and revived throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. While focusing on how these works have been altered, the thirteen contributors in this book also respond to fundamental questions: how has this music retained - or sacrificed - its powerful messages in the face of deconstruction and recontextualization over time and place? What happens to these operas once they have escaped control of their authors? The contributions of singers, stage directors, conductors, and other theatrical personalities stand front and center of the volume.

"Marvin and Poriss have brought together a fascinating group of essays which presents the interested reader with much food for thought." -Richard LeSueur,Ann Arbor

ISBN: 9780521889988

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm

Weight: 740g

302 pages