LEADER 03809nam 22006135 450 001 996448852003316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a1-4008-6668-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400866687 035 $a(CKB)2670000000587910 035 $a(EBL)1843641 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001402376 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12617557 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402376 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11359355 035 $a(PQKB)10658498 035 $a(OCoLC)898476999 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1843641 035 $a(DE-B1597)459750 035 $a(OCoLC)940681396 035 $a(OCoLC)999361881 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400866687 035 $a(PPN)259897396 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000587910 100 $a20190708d2014 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLeonora's Last Act $eEssays in Verdian Discourse /$fRoger Parker 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2014] 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 0 $aPrinceton Studies in Opera ;$v31 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-51434-8 311 $a0-691-01557-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tCHAPTER ONE. On Reaching the Beguiled Shore -- $tCHAPTER TWO. "Va pensiero" and the Insidious Mastery of Song -- $tCHAPTER THREE. "Insolite forme," or Basevi's Garden Path -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Leonora's Last Act: La forza del destino -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Falstaff and Verdi's Final Narratives -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Reading the livrets, or the Chimera of "Authentic" Staging -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN. Lina Kneels; Gilda Sings -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT. Leonora's Last Act: It trovatore 330 $aIn these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by means of its brash impurity, its loose ends and excess of meaning, its superfluity of narrative secrets." Verdi's works, many of which underwent drastic revisions over the years and which sometimes bore marks of an unusual collaboration between composer and librettist, illustrate in particular why it can sometimes be misleading to assign fixed meanings to an opera. Parker instead explores works like Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Falstaff from a variety of angles, and addresses such contentious topics as the composer's involvement with Italian politics, the possibilities of an "authentic" staging of his work, and the advantages and pitfalls of analyzing his operas according to terms that his contemporaries might have understood. Parker takes into account many of the interdisciplinary influences currently engaging musicologists, in particular narrative and feminist theory. But he also demonstrates that close attention to the documentary evidence--especially that offered by autograph scores--can stimulate equal interpretive activity. This book serves as a model of research and critical thinking about opera, while nevertheless retaining a deep respect for opera's continuing power to touch generations of listeners. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in opera. 606 $aOpera$zItaly$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOpera 676 $a782.1/092 700 $aParker$b Roger, $0911676 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996448852003316 996 $aLeonora's Last Act$92555071 997 $aUNISA