Building the Operatic Museum
Title | Building the Operatic Museum PDF eBook |
Author | William James Gibbons |
Publisher | University Rochester Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1580464009 |
Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works of visual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature, Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. William Gibbons is Associate Professor of Musicology at Texas Christian University.
Building a Masterpiece
Title | Building a Masterpiece PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781863171526 |
Building a masterpiece explores some of the untold chapters in the long history of the Opera House's gestation, development and completion -- of individuals whose careers were made or broken by the Opera House, the companies whose reputations were secured through their association with the building, and the pioneering construction methods, innovative technologies and methodologies developed to meet the demands of its unprecedented design and challenging construction. The workers who built the building, the politicians, architects and members of the public who championed it and its often beleaguered architect are discussed as is its current world status as a symbol of Australia.To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House, this new edition of Building a Masterpiece will include a new chapter on another little known and much misunderstood story: the architect who took over from Utzon and completed the project.
Curating Opera
Title | Curating Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Mould |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1000338606 |
Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and processes that guide them. In turn, comparisons are made with the workings of the traditional art museum, where artworks are studied, preserved, restored, displayed and contextualised – processes which are also present in the opera house. Curatorial roles in each institution are identified and described, and the role of the celebrity art curator is compared with that of the modern stage director, who has acquired previously undreamt-of licence to interrogate operatic works, overlaying them with new concepts and levels of meaning in order to reinvent and redefine the operatic repertoire for contemporary needs. A point of coalescence between the opera house and the art museum is identified, with the transformation, towards the end of the nineteenth century, of the opera house into the operatic museum. Curatorial practices in the opera house are examined, and further communalities and synergies in the way that ‘works’ are defined in each institution are explored. This study also considers the so-called ‘birth’ of opera around the start of the seventeenth century, with reference to the near-contemporary rise of the modern art museum, outlining operatic practice and performance history over the last 400 years in order to identify the curatorial practices that have historically been employed in the maintenance and development of the repertoire. This examination of the forces of curation within the modern opera house will highlight aspects of authenticity, authorial intent, preservation, restoration and historically informed performance practice.
Opera and the Politics of Tragedy
Title | Opera and the Politics of Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Katharina Clausius |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1648250491 |
A curated collection of Enlightenment operas, paintings, and literary works that were all marked by the "Telemacomania" scandal, a furious cultural frenzy with dangerous political stakes. Imaginatively structured as a guided tour, Opera and the Politics of Tragedy captures the tumultuous impact of the so-called Telemacomania crisis through its key artifacts: literary pamphlets, spoken dramas, paintings, engravings, and opera librettos (drammi per musica). Prominently featured in the gallery are two operas with direct ties to this aesthetic and political war: Mozart and Cigna-Santi's Mitridate (1770) and Mozart and Varesco's Idomeneo (1781). Reading and listening across the Enlightenment's cultural spaces (its new public museums, its first encyclopedias, and its ever-controversial operatic theater), this book showcases the Enlightenment's disorderly historical revisionism alongside its progressive politics to expose the fertile creativity that can emerge out of the ambiguous space between what is "ancient" and what is "modern."
A Digest of Laws and Ordinances Concerning Philadelphia, with Notes of Decisions and City Solicitors' Opinions Relating Thereto, 1701-1904
Title | A Digest of Laws and Ordinances Concerning Philadelphia, with Notes of Decisions and City Solicitors' Opinions Relating Thereto, 1701-1904 PDF eBook |
Author | Philadelphia (Pa.). |
Publisher | |
Pages | 936 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Pierre Key's Music Year Book
Title | Pierre Key's Music Year Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
Arts America: Enjoying the Best Art Museums, Theater, Classical Music, Opera, Jazz, Dance, Film, and Summer Festivals in America
Title | Arts America: Enjoying the Best Art Museums, Theater, Classical Music, Opera, Jazz, Dance, Film, and Summer Festivals in America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Huntington Press Inc |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2014-03-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1935396048 |
Timesong is the inspirational story of a three-legged coyote named j.b. who befriends Tom, an autistic boy. Following his father's death, Tom retreats into a shell of isolation. j.b. counters Tom's despair with an uplifting explanation of immortality. For those trying to reconcile the loss of a loved one, Timesong may be the key that opens the door to acceptance and peace of mind.