Situating Opera
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 August 2011
- 28 October 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780511667541
- 9780521199896
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.65kg, 324 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Music, Opera, Music Criticism
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Opera
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- Music, Opera, Music Criticism
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Book description
Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers by means of both musical and theatrical shock effects. Using recent experiments in neuroscience, the book demonstrates how different operatic forms developed at different periods to create new ways of exciting a public. Lindenberger considers selected moments of operatic history from Monteverdi's Orfeo to the present to study how the form has communicated with its diverse audiences. Of interest to scholars and operagoers alike, this book advocates and exemplifies opera studies as an active, emerging area of interdisciplinary study.
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"...very accessible and offer excellent insights into why operas of the 20th century and beyond seem to have a more limited audience than the lyrical dramatic operas of the 19th century." --Choice
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