04665nam 2201177Ia 450 991081111340332120240410101216.01-282-35765-497866123576570-520-93178-51-59875-946-910.1525/9780520931787(CKB)1000000000246853(EBL)255699(OCoLC)475970658(SSID)ssj0000235765(PQKBManifestationID)11229361(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235765(PQKBWorkID)10164749(PQKB)11134049(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084671(OCoLC)647484279(MiAaPQ)EBC255699(OCoLC)66266689(MdBmJHUP)muse30866(DE-B1597)519506(DE-B1597)9780520931787(Au-PeEL)EBL255699(CaPaEBR)ebr10120303(CaONFJC)MIL235765(EXLCZ)99100000000024685320050719d2006 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrRemaking the song operatic visions and revisions from Handel to Berio /Roger Parker1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20061 online resource (178 p.)Ernest Bloch lecturesDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-24418-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface And Acknowledgments --1. Remaking The Song --2. Of Andalusian Maidens And Recognition Scenes: Crossed Wires In Il Trovatore And La Traviata --3. Ersatz Ditties: Adriana Ferrarese's Susanna --4. In Search Of Verdi --5. Berio's Turandot: Once More The Great Tradition --6. Sudden Charms: The Progress Of An Aria --Notes --IndexOpera performances are often radically inventive. Composers' revisions, singers' improvisations, and stage directors' re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they go far enough? This elegantly written, beautifully concise book, spanning almost the entire history of opera, reexamines attitudes toward some of our best-loved musical works. It looks at opera's history of multiple visions and revisions and asks a simple question: what exactly is opera? Remaking the Song, rich in imaginative answers, considers works by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Berio in order to challenge what many regard as sacroscant: the opera's musical text. Scholarly tradition favors the idea of great operatic texts permanently inscribed in the canon. Roger Parker, considering examples ranging from Cecilia Bartoli's much-criticized insistence on using Mozart's alternative arias in the Marriage of Figaro to Luciano Berio's new ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, argues that opera is an inherently mutable form, and that all of us-performers, listeners, scholars-should celebrate operatic revisions as a way of opening works to contemporary needs and new pleasures.Ernest Bloch lectures.OperasMusicPhilosophy and aestheticsadaptation.adelia.amato.aria.art criticism.art.azucena.bartoli.berio.boito.cabaletta.composers.donizetti.drama.europe.ferrarese.gypsies.handel.il trovatore.la traviata.marriage of figaro.mozart.music history.music theory.nonfiction.opera singers.opera.operatic texts.performance.performing arts.puccini.revision.rigoletto.stage directors.susanna.theater.theatrical music.turandot.verdi.wagner.Operas.MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics.782.1Parker Roger1951-749368MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811113403321Remaking the song4032243UNINA