Contemporary opera in flux

In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined the production and reception of opera. Focusing on productions involving late twentieth- and twenty-first century scores and libretti, the twelve contributors draw on conversation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Everett, Yayoi Uno, editor (editor), McClary, Susan, author of foreword (author of foreword)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2024.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Susan McClary
  • Introduction / Yayoi U. Everett and Nicholas D. Stevens
  • 1. Fear of an envoiced planet : speculative arias of the operatic hyperobject / Nicholas David Stevens
  • 2. Posthuman voice beyond opera : songful practice of holograms, robots, machines, and vocaloids / Jelena Novak
  • 3. Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's The Cave, theater of testimony, and the documentary turn in America opera / Ryan Ebright
  • 4. ¡Unicamente la verdad! (Only the truth!) : Camelia la Tejana's many truths / Amy Bauer
  • 5. Techniques and dramaturgy of the avatar in George Lewis's Afterword / Alexander K. Rothe
  • 6. Dramaturgies of trauma : Chaya Czernowin's Infinite now / Joy H. Calico
  • 7. Inter-Asia sensibility : vocality and materiality in Tan Dun's Tea: a mirror of soul / Nancy Yunhwa Rao
  • 8. Of sense and sirens : Ana Sokolović's Svadba and Six voix pour sirènes / Colleen Renihan
  • 9. Sex, myth, and power : reclaiming the "dark feminine" in Anthony Davis's Lilith / Jane Forner
  • 10. Narratives of the self in Thomas Hyde's That man Stephen Ward / Edward Venn
  • 11. Narrative agencies in Annie Proulx and Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain / Yayoi Uno Everett
  • 12. From subjectivity to biopolitics : the dream in Salvatore Sciarrino's music theater / Mauro Fosco Bertola.