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Book Verdi s Otello  a Comparative Dramaturgical Study of the Opera and Shakespeare s Play

Download or read book Verdi s Otello a Comparative Dramaturgical Study of the Opera and Shakespeare s Play written by Nerrill Brockway and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Examination of Verdi s Otello and Its Faithfulness to Shakespeare

Download or read book An Examination of Verdi s Otello and Its Faithfulness to Shakespeare written by Jane Hawes and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes how Verdi produced what is not only a monumental piece of music, but a remarkably effective and faithful adaptation. It examines how Verdi (and his librettist, Arrigo Boito) translated from speech to music, and what is required generally for a good adaptation. The study is primarily musical, although it examines literary matters as well. It examines principal characters and their relationships, the arias, the structure, and differences and similarities between Verdi and his source, Shakespeare.

Book Macbeth Multiplied

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  • Author : Christoph Clausen
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9042018879
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Macbeth Multiplied written by Christoph Clausen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare's play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth's cultural memory? What does Verdi's chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of 'the people'? These are among the questions tackled in this study. It provides the first in-depth comparison of Shakespeare's and Verdi's Macbeth that is written expressly from the perspective of current Shakespearean criticism whilst striving to do justice to the topic's musicological dimension at the same time. Exploring to what extent the play's matrix of possible readings is distinct from Verdi's two operatic versions, the book seeks to relate such differences both to the historical contexts of the works' geneses and to their respective medial conditions. In doing so, it pays particular attention to shifting negotiations of witchcraft, gender, madness, and kingship. The study eventually broadens its discussion to consider other Shakespearean plays and their operatic offshoots, reflecting on some possible relations between historical and medial difference.

Book Verdi s Shakespeare

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  • Author : Garry Wills
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-11-27
  • ISBN : 0143122223
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Verdi s Shakespeare written by Garry Wills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. "Riveting . . . a double-barreled salvo that hits two bull's-eyes." —The New York Times Book Review This dazzling study of the three operas that Giuseppe Verdi adapted from Shakespeare's plays takes readers on a wonderfully engaging journey through opera, music, literature, history, and the nature of genius. Verdi's Shakespeare explores the writing and staging of Macbetto (Macbeth), Otello (Othello), and Falstaff, operas by Verdi, an Italian composer who could not read a word of English but who adored Shakespeare. Delving into the fast-paced worlds of these men and the hands-on life of the stage that at once challenged them and gave flight to their brilliance, Wills, in his inimitable way, illuminates the birth of artistic creation.

Book Othello and Otello

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  • Author : Ana Marija Resnik
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book Othello and Otello written by Ana Marija Resnik and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare in 19th Century Opera

Download or read book Shakespeare in 19th Century Opera written by Alina Borkowska-Rychlewska and published by Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics and philosophy of the Romantic period. The texts discussed here include Verdi's Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff, Rossini's Otello, Halévy's The Tempest, Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Thomas's Hamlet. The study aims to indicate diverse traces of the Romantic interpretation of Shakespeare's works in the history of the 19th-century opera. Individual chapters present the librettos of the selected operas, analysed in the context of Shakespeare's plays and their 19th-century reception, reconstructed on the basis of 19th-century historic-literary texts (of, among others, A. W. Schlegel, L. Tieck and V. Hugo), critical studies and press articles. The analyses conducted in the book succeed in presenting the evolution of the phenomenon of Romantic Shakespeareanism in the 19th-century opera theatre.

Book A Comparative Study of Analogous Elements in Shakespeare s Othello and Verdi s Otello

Download or read book A Comparative Study of Analogous Elements in Shakespeare s Othello and Verdi s Otello written by David R. Carrey and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Giuseppe Verdi

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  • Author : Gregory W. Harwood
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0415881897
  • Pages : 466 pages

Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.

Book A Comparative Analysis of the Plot Development and Characters of the Giuseppe Verdi Opera Adaptations of William Shakespeare s Macbeth  Othello  and The Merry Wives of Windsor

Download or read book A Comparative Analysis of the Plot Development and Characters of the Giuseppe Verdi Opera Adaptations of William Shakespeare s Macbeth Othello and The Merry Wives of Windsor written by Donald Martin Polzin and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare   Opera

Download or read book Shakespeare Opera written by Gary Schmidgall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If opera had existed in Elizabethan London, the world's Top Bard, as W.H. Auden called him, might have become the world's Top Librettist. In this illuminating study, Gary Schmidgall ranges widely through the Shakespearean canon and the standard operatic repertory and presents a fascinating comparison of the two, focusing on similarities of expressive style, scenic structure, staging, and performance practice. Schmidgall includes both extended discussions of pertinent general issues and concise essays on the most intriguing Shakespeare-based operas. For all who love the stage, Shakespeare and Opera offers endless insight and fascinaton. Schmidgall's extended comparison of the two dramaturgies offers provocative new insights on Shakespeare, musical theater, comparative drama, and theater history.

Book Giuseppe Verdi  Otello

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  • Author : James A. Hepokoski
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-06-18
  • ISBN : 9780521277495
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi Otello written by James A. Hepokoski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hepokoski provides a reliable summary of what is currently known about Otello, along with an interpretation of the significance of the work within Verdi's career. The book begins with a detailed synopsis which interweaves some of the specific stage action from the 1887 Milanese première. There follows a close consideration of how the opera was actually written: Arrigo Boito's derivation of the libretto from Shakespeare and the subsequent textual revisions; Verdi's composition of the opera from 1884 to 1887 and an overview of the revisions of the opera for Venice in 1887 and Paris in 1894. A further chapter outlines Verdi's own ideas for the performance of Otello and this is followed by William Ashbrook's summary of the opera's stage history up to the present. Professor Hepokoski continues by suggesting a new model for understanding the musical structure of Otello. The book concludes with a study of the opera as a work of Shakespearean adaptation.

Book Giuseppe Verdi  Otello

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  • Author : James A. Hepokoski
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-05-29
  • ISBN : 9780521258852
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi Otello written by James A. Hepokoski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Hepokoski provides a reliable summary of what is currently known about Otello, along with an interpretation of the significance of the work within Verdi's career. The book begins with a detailed synopsis which interweaves some of the specific stage action from the 1887 Milanese première. There follows a close consideration of how the opera was actually written: Arrigo Boito's derivation of the libretto from Shakespeare and the subsequent textual revisions; Verdi's composition of the opera from 1884 to 1887 and an overview of the revisions of the opera for Venice in 1887 and Paris in 1894. A further chapter outlines Verdi's own ideas for the performance of Otello and this is followed by William Ashbrook's summary of the opera's stage history up to the present. Professor Hepokoski continues by suggesting a new model for understanding the musical structure of Otello. The book concludes with a study of the opera as a work of Shakespearean adaptation.

Book Textual Composition and the Macbeth  Othello  and Falstaff of Shakespeare and Verdi

Download or read book Textual Composition and the Macbeth Othello and Falstaff of Shakespeare and Verdi written by Mary McCleary and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The dissertation examines adaptations of Shakespearean plays in the operatic libretti of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), who dominated Italian opera in the second half of the nineteenth century. Although Verdi relied on the assistance of librettists with all his operas, he maintained scrupulous control over the textual details. The primary focus is on the triangle formed by Shakespeare, Verdi, and the librettist with considered attention to the ways in which a dramatic crux, or challenge, will both differ from and be cognate with an operatic crux. The monograph explores original Shakespearean sources, literary and musicological criticism, and the impact of historical circumstances on the genesis of Verdi's Shakespearean libretti. A brief biographical account of the composer is followed by a synopsis of the development of opera and an overview of the role of the librettist. It then addresses the distinguishing features of Shakespeare's writing that need to be considered when assessing adaptations of his plays into libretti. The second, third, and fourth parts of the study focus respectively on the three operas: Macbeth (1847) written with librettist Francesco Piave, Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893), the latter two written with Arrigo Boito. Additional research includes new evidence regarding Verdi's unfinished Re Lear. The three complete operas are examined in close textual comparison with their original sources. Particular attention is given to the translations used in the libretti; textual and plot conformity; replication of rhyme and meter; diction and syntax; character portrayal and replication; and distinctions between dramatic and operatic settings. The study also compares different editions of the plays upon which the operas were based, as well as various editions of correspondence. The conclusion assesses Verdi's contribution to Shakespearean adaptation and the subsequent implications for the task of the librettist in creating a quality text that enhances, rather than detracts from, the composer's effort.

Book Dissertation Abstracts

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masters  Essays

Download or read book Masters Essays written by Columbia University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Magic Flute written by Jessica Waldoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, up-to-date, resource providing an essential framework for understanding Mozart's most-performed opera and its extraordinary afterlife.