Orientalism and the operatic world
By: Nicholas Tarling
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781442245433
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Opera; Music and globalization; Orientalism in opera
Description: Western opera is a globalized and globalizing phenomenon and affords us a unique opportunity for exploring the concept of "orientalism," the subject of literary scholar Edward Said's modern classic on the topic. Nicholas Tarling's Orientalism and the Operatic World places opera in the context of its steady globalization over the past two centuries. In this important survey, Tarling first considers how the Orient appears on the operatic stage in Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States before exploring individual operas according to the region of the "Orient" in which the work is set.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Recitatives. Globalising and glocalising opera ; The genre ; Orientalisms; title: Arias. Bible-based operas ; Crusaders, Arabs and Turks ; Egypt ; India and Ceylon ; China ; Japan ; Russia.