Unsettling opera staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin, David J. 1960- (Author).

Summary: What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera?s restlessness and volatility to life.Unsettling Opera explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical pract.

Record details

ISBN: 9780226475257 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0226475255 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xix, 254 p.) : ill., music.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Dramaturgy and mise-en-scène -- Reading a staging/staging a reading : Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in performance -- Fidelity in translation : Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro -- Deconstructing Singspiel : Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- Between sublimation and audacity : Verdi's Don Carlos -- Beyond the canon : Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.