Beyond the stage
Subtitle: musical theatre and performing arts between fin de siècle and the années folles
By: edited by Michela Niccolai and Giuseppe Montemagno
Series: Ad Parnassum studies -- 10; Ad Parnassum studies -- 10.
Publisher: UT Orpheus
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Bologna (Italy)
Language: eng; fre; ita
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9788881095056
Subjects: Musical theater; History; Music in the theater
Description: A collection of analytical essays, focused on visually spectacular theatre productions in Paris between 1890 and 1930, chosen for their interrogation of the spectacular element, that is to say the performance, as 'a text', equal in status to the music and the literary text. Therefore, the different subject areas proposed in these essays reveal a lesser importance of the subject material set to music by composers but a greater willingness, at the centre of the aesthetic renewal of the time, to try out new musical forms or to adapt traditional structures to new dramatic ends. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.

Texts in French, Italian, and English.