Opera and modern spectatorship in late nineteenth-century Italy

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film...

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1. Verfasser: Campana, Alessandra (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in opera
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Staging manuals and the public
  • The "fleeting moment" : Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele
  • Milan, 1881 : Simon Boccanegra and the specters of history
  • Acting in Otello : on the rhetoric of the medium
  • The real of opera : Puccini's Manon Lescaut
  • Faust again : the silent film Rapsodia satanica and Mascagni's score