Opera in Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Risi, Clemens

ISBN 10: 0367645025 / ISBN 13: 9780367645021

Published by Routledge, 2021

In. Seller Inventory # ria9780367645021_new

Synopsis:

Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.

What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers’ bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.

This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.

About the Author:

Clemens Risi is professor of theater studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Opera in Performance (Routledge Advances in ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New