Opera
Subtitle: passion, power and politics
By: edited by Kate Bailey
Contributors: Cohen, Rebeka; Robins, Paul, photographer; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Operations Research. Arbeitsgruppe Praxis der Linearen Optimierung; Victoria and Albert Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum. Photographic Studio; Victoria and Albert Museum. V&A Publications
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781851779284
Subjects: Opera; Production and direction; Exhibitions; Costume; History
Description: "Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form far removed from reality by its fantastical pots and melodramatic divas. This book shows that beneath the opulent sets and sumptuous costumes, opera is very much a product of its time. Like all the great narrative arts, it draws on essential human experiences to create a form that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect a changing society.Focusing on seven opera premieres in seven distinct cultural landscapes, with additional essays by contemporary practitioners including Placido Domingo, Antonio Pappano and Simone Young, the book culminates in the international explosion of opera in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The seven operas and premieres are: Venice (Monteverdi's L'Incoranazione di Poppea, 1642); London (Handel's Rinaldo, 1711); Vienna (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, 1786); Milan (Verdi's Nabucco, 1842); Paris (Wagner's Tannhauser, 1861); Dresden (Strauss' Salome, 1905) and St Petersburg (Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, 1934)" -- publisher's description.
Notes: Boards half-bound in black cloth with golden lettering.

New V&A photography by Robert Auton and Paul Robins, V&A Photographic Studio.

Published to accompany the exhibition held 30 September 2017 - 25 February 2018 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Includes bibliographical notes (pages 290-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Venice: Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea; title: 2. London: George Frideric Handel, Rinaldo; title: 3. Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro; title: 4. Milan: Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco; title: 5. Paris: Richard Wagner, Tannhauser; title: 6. Dresden: Richard Strauss, Salome; title: 7. Leningrad: Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District; title: 8. Afterword: Opera: Today and Tomorrow.