Operatic migrations
Subtitle: transforming works and crossing boundaries
By: edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas.
Contributors: Marvin, Roberta Montemorra.; Thomas, Downing A.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Opera.
Description: "This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying a wide range of subjects associated with the creation, performance and reception of 'opera' in varying social and historical contexts from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries." "Topics covered include transformations of literary sources and their migration into the operatic genre; works that move across geographical and social boundaries into different cultural contexts; movements between media and/or genre as well as alterations through interpretation and performance of the composer's creation; the translation of spoken theatre to lyric theatre; the theoretical issues contingent on the rendering of 'speech' into 'song'; and the transforming effects of aesthetic considerations as they bear on opera."

"The book will appeal to those working in the field of music, literary and cultural studies, and to those with a particular interest in opera and musical theatre."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : migrations and transformations / by Roberta Montemorra Marvin; title: Venice : the cradle of operatic convention / by Ellen Rosand; title: "Je vous répondrez au troisième couplet" : eighteenth-century opéra comique and the demands of speech / by Downing A. Thomas; title: From the comédie-française to the opéra : Figaro at the crossroads / by Tili Boon Cuillé; title: Ideological noises : opera criticism in early eighteenth-century France / by Charles Dill; title: Transformations : Anfossi's Circe in Weimar / by Waltraud Maierhofer; title: Roman republicanism and operatic heroines in Napoleonic Italy / by Robert Ketterer; title: How did opera become "operatic"? : the Gothic roots of the romantic libretto, 1764-1854 / by Anne Williams; title: Mozart productions and the concept of Werktreue at London's Italian opera / by Rachel Cowgill; title: The mirror of art and scenes of recognition : Wagner and Mann / by Grace Kehler; title: Barriers, borders, burlesques, and boundaries / by Roberta Montemorra Marvin; title: Local color : the representation of race in Carmen and Carmen Jones / by Robert L.A. Clark; title: Operatic school for scandal / by David J. Levin; title: Why (what, how, if) opera studies? / by Herbert Lindenberger; title: Epilogue / by Downing A. Thomas.