The Legacy of Opera: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance (Themes in Theatre - Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance., 7)

The Legacy of Opera: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance is the first volume in a series of books compiled by the Music Theatre Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research. The series explores the widening of the meaning of the term "music theatre" to reflect new ways of thinking about this creative practice beyond the genres circumscribed by discourses of theatre studies and musicology. Specifically it interrogates the experience of music theatre and its performance energies for contemporary audiences who engage with the emergence of new expressive idioms, new performative paradigms, new technologies and new ways of thinking. The Legacy of Opera considers some of the ways in which opera's influence has informed our understanding of and approach to the musical stage, from the multiple perspectives of the ideological, historical, corporeal and artistic. With contributions from international scholars in music theatre, its chapters explore both canonic and experimental examples of music theatre, spanning a period from the seventeenth century to the present day. Empty Houses, Booming Voices / Dominic Symonds And Pamela Karantonis -- Is This Still Opera? Media Operas As Productive Provocations / Bianca Michaels -- A New Glimmer Of Light : Opera, Metaphysics And Mimesis / Nicholas Till -- The Singing Body In The Tragédie Lyrique Of Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-century France : Voice, Theatre, Speech, Pleasure / Sarah Nancy -- Performing Affect In Seventeenth-century Opera : Process, Reception, Transgression / Clemens Risi -- The Violettas Of Patti, Muzio And Callas : Style, Interpretation And The Questions Of Legacy / Magnus Tessing Schneider -- The Tenor In Decline? Narratives Of Nostalgia And The Performativity Of The Operatic Tenor / Pamela Karantonis -- The Threepenny Opera : Performativity And The Brechtian Presence Between Music And Theatre / Michael Eigtved -- The Acousmêtre On Stage And Screen : The Power Of The Bodiless Voice / Jeongwon Joe -- Dancing In The Twilight : On The Borders Of Music And The Scenic / David Roesner -- Turkish Post-migrant Opera In Europe : A Socio-historical Perspective On Aurality / Pieter Verstraete -- Powerful Spirit : Notes On Some Practice As Research / Dominic Symonds -- Abstracts -- Notes On Contributors. Edited By Dominic Symonds And Pamela Karantonis. Ifrt/firt Music Theatre Working Group--title Page. Includes Bibliographical References (pages [245]-259) And Index. __The Legacy of Opera: Reading Music Theatre as Experience and Performance____The Legacy of Opera__