Opera: dead or alive : production, performance, and enjoyment of musical theatre.
Published by Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972
- Softcover
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Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.Steven Wolfe Books
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Mitchell, Ronald Elwy, 1905-1986. Opera: dead or alive : production, performance, and enjoyment of musical theatre. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972, xii, 322pp., PAPERBACK, very good copy but with mild crease starting on spine. Playwright, director, and critic Ronald E. Mitchell offers general readers a richer understanding of traditions, terms, styles, and staging techniques of musical theater, including an introduction to operas and musicals, from baroque and romantic operas to Gilbert & Sullivan, from proletarian dramas to Broadway shows like Oklahoma! - CONTENTS: 1. Audiences and theatres -- 2. Systems and subsidies -- 3. Singers and actors -- 4. Staging : Staging, good and poor ; Interruption ; Dance and divertissement ; Singers in costume ; Elaborateness and simplification ; Realism and detail -- 5. The stage director's hand : Figaro: a matter of clarity ; The ring: a matter of illusion, symbol, and light ; Der Rosenkavalier: a matter of taste and proportion - 6. Drama for music : The story of Orpheus -- 7. Baroque opera : Dido and Aeneas ; Dido Deserted -- 8. Ballad opera : The beggar's opera -- 9. Comic opera: Rococo and Biedermeier : Cosi fan Tutte ; Tsar and Carpenter -- 10. Romantic melodrama : II Trovatore -- 11. Comic opera: Victorian : H.M.S. Pinafore -- 12. Verismo and Viennismo : La Boheme ; The merry widow -- 13. Proletarian music drama : Wozzeck -- 14. Musical comedy : Oklahoma! ; Kiss me, Kate -- 15. Contemporary opera : A midsummer night's dream. 9780299058142 ISBN 029905814X. …
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- Opera: dead or alive : production, performance, and enjoyment of musical theatre.
- Author
- Mitchell, Ronald Elwy, 1905-1986
- Publisher
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972
- Binding
- Soft cover
Steven Wolfe Books
Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since May 24, 2001
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