The Cultural Context of Mozart's "Magic Flute"
Author: Judith A. Eckelmeyer
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780889464261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith A. Eckelmeyer
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780889464261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith A. Eckelmeyer
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Addressing the problems of symbols and references in The Magic Flute, this text considers a broad cultural heritage, including: the early-17th-century movement of the Rosicrucians; and 17th- and 18th-century educational, scientific, philosophical and religious developments.
Author: Judith A. Eckelmeyer
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780889464261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Judith A. Eckelmeyer
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Addressing the problems of symbols and references in The Magic Flute, this text considers a broad cultural heritage, including: the early-17th-century movement of the Rosicrucians; and 17th- and 18th-century educational, scientific, philosophical and religious developments.
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0977145506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive guide to Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with German/English translation side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.
Author: Jessica Waldoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-02
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 1108629482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since its premiere in 1791, The Magic Flute has been staged continuously and remains, to this day, Mozart's most-performed opera worldwide. This comprehensive, user-friendly, up-to-date critical guide considers the opera in a variety of contexts to provide a fresh look at a work that has continued to fascinate audiences from Mozart's time to ours. It serves both as an introduction for those encountering the opera for the first time and as a treasury of recent scholarship for those who know it very well. Containing twenty-one essays by leading scholars, and drawing on recent research and commentary, this Companion presents original insights on music, dialogue, and spectacle, and offers a range of new perspectives on key issues, including the opera's representation of exoticism, race, and gender. Organized in four sections – historical context, musical analysis, critical approaches, and reception – it provides an essential framework for understanding The Magic Flute and its extraordinary afterlife.
Author: Tjeu van den Berk
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-13
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13: 9004496548
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume demonstrates for the first time that Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte is an enactment of the alchemical opus magnum, in the form of a chemical wedding. Towards the end of the 18th century, alchemy was still a prominent mystical current within the Order of Freemasons of which Mozart and his librettists were members. The central part focuses on the opera's alchemical structure, whereas the historical and mythological backgrounds are also dealt with extensively. The book comes with 3 CD's offering a rendition of the integral opera, in contrast to the common practice of leaving out major parts of the libretto. The Magic Flute is a fascinating journey of discovery, an initiation into Initiation. With complete original libretto and over 100 pictures.
Author: Mark A. Radice
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1574670328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Caitlin Vincent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1000440737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. The book begins by exploring digital scenography’s dramaturgical possibilities and establishes a critical framework for identifying and comparing the use of digital scenography across different digitally enhanced opera productions. The book then investigates the impacts and potential disruptions of digital scenography on opera’s longstanding production conventions, both on and off the stage. Drawing on interviews with major industry practitioners, including Paul Barritt, Mark Grimmer, Donald Holder, Elaine J. McCarthy, Luke Halls, Wendall K. Harrington, Finn Ross, S. Katy Tucker, and Victoria ‘Vita’ Tzykun, author Caitlin Vincent identifies key correlations between the use of digital scenography in practice and subsequent impacts on creative hierarchies, production design processes, and organisational management. The book features detailed case studies of digitally enhanced productions premiered by Dutch National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Opéra de Lyon, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, The Metropolitan Opera, Victorian Opera, and Washington National Opera.
Author: Mary Kathleen Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-11-27
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521572392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.