Verdi in Performance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 August 2001
- ISBN 9780198167358
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 243x163x17 mm
- Weight 457 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8pp plates, 12 music examples 0
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Short description:
This anthology of essays by leading Verdi scholars and practitioners, which grew out of an international conference, is essential reading for anyone interested in the way Verdi's operas are performed. It is a lively debate on 'authentic' staging, performance practice, Verdi's ballet scores, and critical editions.
MoreLong description:
The number of Verdi's works in the current repertories of the world's opera houses is greater than at any time since the composer's death a century ago. Yet, those responsible for staging and performing these works are faced with many difficult decisions, not least of which is how to make the operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. First written for an international conference at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, these lively and stimulating essays by leading Verdi scholars, music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as 'authentic' staging, performance practice, Verdi's approach to the ballet, and the role of critical editions. With a chronology of the composer's life and times and also a list of his works, this anthology is essential reading for anyone interested in the performance of Verdi's operas in the new millennium.
Verdi in Performance is an exceptionally good read, and its greatest assets are the intelligence of the questions it asks, and the welcome clarity of its jargon-free prose. It will serve us well for a very long time.
Table of Contents:
The Pains and Pleasures of Liberation
Staging Verdi's Operas: the Single, 'Correct' Performance
In Praise of the Pragmatic
On Staging that Matters
'Trust the tale, not the teller'
Misinterpreting Verdian Dramaturgy: History and Grand Opera
Ornamenting Verdi Arias: the Continuity of a Tradition
On 'Exactly what is written'
The Rubber Band
Verdi and the Ballet
Ballet in Italy: the Background to Verdi
Milan and Paris: a Lastin Dialogue
A Conflict of Interests
Drawing the Audience in: the Theatre and the Ballroom
The Feminization of Ballet
'Reading' Ballet
Critical Editions and Performance
Critical Editions and Critical Performance
With Real Bullets in Tosca
The 'Textualization' of Opera
List of Works
Chronology of Verdi's Life and Times
