Opera in Context Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini

by Radice, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9781574670325
• ISBN10: 1574670328
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Amadeus

Summary

These essays by respected scholars examine representative operatic productions from diverse national schools and periods, together forming a comprehensive history of the staging techniques of opera over the centuries.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	7	(3)
Acknowledgments	10	(1)
Introduction	11	(4)
Chapter One Dalle machine ... la maraviglia: Bernardo Buontalenti's Il rapimento di Cefalo at the Medici Theater in 1600	15	(22)
Massimo Ossi
Chapter Two Opera and Ballet in Seventeenth-Century French Theaters: Case Studies of the Salle des Machines and the Palais Royal Theater	37	(36)
Barbara Coeyman
Chapter Three Theater Architecture at the Time of Henry Purcell and Its Influence on His "Dramatick Operas"	73	(22)
Mark A. Radice
Chapter Four Handel's Haymarket Theatre	95	(16)
Mark Stahura
Chapter Five Mozart and Two Theaters in Josephinian Vienna	111	(36)
Malcolm S. Cole
Chapter Six The Neues Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the Premiere of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz	147	(24)
E. Douglas Bomberger
Chapter Seven Paradise Found: The Salle le Peletier and French Grand Opera	171	(38)
Karin Pendle
Stephen Wilkins
Chapter Eight Verdi's Operas and Giuseppe Bertoja's Designs at the Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice	209	(32)
Evan Baker
Chapter Nine Richard Wagner and His Search for the Ideal Theatrical Space	241	(38)
Evan Baker
Chapter Ten Realism on the Opera Stage: Belasco, Puccini, and the California Sunset	279	(18)
Helen M. Greenwald
Notes	297	(74)
Bibliography	371	(26)
About the Contributors	397	(4)
Index	401