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Leonora's Last Act
Roger Parker
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Sachbuch / Klassik, Oper, Operette, Musical
Beschreibung
In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by means of its brash impurity, its loose ends and excess of meaning, its superfluity of narrative secrets." Verdi's works, many of which underwent drastic revisions over the years and which sometimes bore marks of an unusual collaboration between composer and librettist, illustrate in particular why it can sometimes be misleading to assign fixed meanings to an opera. Parker instead explores works like Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Falstaff from a variety of angles, and addresses such contentious topics as the composer's involvement with Italian politics, the possibilities of an "authentic" staging of his work, and the advantages and pitfalls of analyzing his operas according to terms that his contemporaries might have understood.
Parker takes into account many of the interdisciplinary influences currently engaging musicologists, in particular narrative and feminist theory. But he also demonstrates that close attention to the documentary evidence--especially that offered by autograph scores--can stimulate equal interpretive activity. This book serves as a model of research and critical thinking about opera, while nevertheless retaining a deep respect for opera's continuing power to touch generations of listeners.
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Stiffelio, Reinterpretation, Mefistofele, Critical edition (opera), La Scala, Carolyn Abbate, I due Foscari, Sostenuto, Va, pensiero, Giovinezza, Romanticism, Opera, La forza del destino, La battaglia di Legnano, Baritone, For Example, Ornament (music), Aria, Syncopation, Italian opera, Salvadore Cammarano, Joseph Kerman, Early music, Philip Gossett, Phrase (music), Ernani, Sinfonia, Tonality, Defamiliarization, Neville Cardus, Cavalleria rusticana, Music Is, Otello (Rossini), Fioritura, Appoggiatura, William Ashbrook, Casa Ricordi, Genre, Melodrama, Nabucco, Roberto Devereux, Set piece (filmmaking), Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, Arrigo Boito, Gaetano Donizetti, Narrative, Word painting, Il trovatore, Rigoletto, Clarinet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Libretto, Euridice (Peri), Un ballo in maschera, Unsung (TV series), La traviata, Bernard Haitink, Julian Budden, Musicology, Silvio Pellico, Giuseppe Verdi, L'amico Fritz, The Other Hand, Anna Bolena, Composer, Federico Ricci, Otello, Cabaletta, Di quella pira