Ancient drama in music for the modern stage / / edited by Peter Brown and Suzana Ograjenšek

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (479 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.109
• Soggetto topico: Opera - Classical influences; Greek drama - Modern presentation
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownPeter <1945 August 5->; OgrajenšekSuzana
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-424) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Note to the Reader; 1. Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: The Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera; 2. Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manqué; 3. Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism; 4. Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera; 5. Dance in Lully's Alceste; 6. The Ghost of Alcestis; 7. The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s ; 8. Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene9. Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729); 10. Establishing a Text, Securing a Reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle; 11. The Gods out of the Machine . . . and their Comeback; 12. Who Killed Gluck?; 13. The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 14. Taneyev's Oresteia; 15. Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy ; 16. The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus17. Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae; 18. Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff 's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann; 19. 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and Other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the twogenres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancient drama in music for the modern stage
• ISBN: 0-19-180843-1; 1-280-77730-3; 9786613687692; 0-19-161094-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218365903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno