| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 460 pages :) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Precursors, precedents, pretexts : the institutions of Greco-Roman theatre and the development of European opera / Roger Savage -- Greek tragedy and opera : notes on a marriage manqué / Michele Napolitano -- Incidental music and the revival of Greek tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism / Jason Geary -- Phaedra's handmaiden : tragedy as comedy and spectacle in seventeenth-century opera / Wendy Heller -- Dance in Lully's Alceste / Jennifer Thorp -- The ghost of Alcestis / Amy Wygant -- The rise and fall of Andromache on the operatic stage, 1660s-1820s / Suzana Ograjenšek -- Opera librettos and Greek tragedy in eighteenth-century Venice : the case of Agostino Piovene / Robert C. Ketterer -- Ancient tragedy in opera, and the operatic debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729) / Reinhard Strohm -- Establishing a text, securing a reputation : Metastasio's use of Aristotle / Michael Burden -- The gods out of the machine- and their comeback / Bruno Forment -- Who killed Gluck? / Simon Goldhill -- The metamorphosis of a Greek comedy and its protagonist : some musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata / Simone Beta -- Taneyev's Oresteia / Anastasia Belina and Michael Ewans -- Crossings of experimental music and Greek tragedy / Christian Wolff -- The action drama and the still life : Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus / Stephen Walsh -- Sing evohe! : three twentieth-century operatic versions of Euripides' Bacchae / Robert Cowan -- Re-staging the Welttheater : a critical view of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann / Nicholas Attfield -- "Batter the doom drum" : the music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other productions of Greek tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir / David Beard |
| Summary |
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics, Musicology, Dance Studies, English Literature, Modern Languages, and Theatre Studies provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the twogenres. Since tragedies have played a much larger part than comedies in this branch of operatic history, the volume mostly concentrates on the tragic repertoire, but a chapter on musical versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata is included, as well as discussions of incidental music, a very important partof the musical reception of ancient drama, from Andrea Gabrieli in 1585 to Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Opera -- Classical influences.
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Greek drama -- Modern presentation.
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Greek drama -- Modern presentation
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Opera -- Classical influences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Peter, 1945 August 5-
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Ograjenšek, Suzana
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| LC no. |
2010564845 |
| ISBN |
1280777303 |
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9781280777301 |
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9780191808432 |
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0191808431 |
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0191610941 |
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9780191610943 |
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9786613687692 |
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6613687693 |
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