Download or read book Rape at the Opera written by Margaret Cormier and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera, Margaret Cormier argues that production and performance are vital elements of opera, and that contemporary opera practitioners not only interpret but create operatic works when they put them onstage. Where some directors explicitly respond to contemporary dialogues about sexual violence, others utilize sexual violence as a surefire way to titillate, to shock, and to generate press for a new production. Drawing on archival footage as well as attendance at live events, Cormier analyzes productions of canonic operas from German, Italian, and French traditions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, La forza del destino, Un ballo in maschera, Salome, and Turandot. In doing so, Cormier highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes methods to evaluate representations of sexual violence on the opera stage, and reframes the primary responsibility of opera critics and creators as being not to opera composers and librettists but to the public.
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Download or read book Regarding Rape written by Elizabeth Cormier and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation explores contemporary representations of sexual violence on the operatic stage. In recent years, activist movements like #MeToo, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2017 dismissal of James Levine, and high-profile allegations against Placido Domingo and others have illuminated the prevalence of sexual harassment and abuse in the opera industry. All the while, depictions of rape and violence against women are mainstays on operatic stages. I analyze performances of several canonic operas produced between 2000 and 2019 and consider how the staging of sexual violence both affects the stories these operas tell and resonates with present-day audiences. Studies of productions are underrepresented in opera scholarship, and my project is the first extended exploration of directorial practice in an explicitly political and ethical framework.My production analysis, situated within a feminist ethical framework, focuses on two areas of inquiry: 1) the agency of the female characters victimized by sexual violence in the productions; and 2) the stylistic approach to putting acts of sexual violence onstage. Each chapter is a discrete case study of a particular issue relating to staging sexual violence on the contemporary opera stage. I analyze productions of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, Guillaume Tell, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Salome, and Turandot, by directors including Calixto Bieito, Atom Egoyan, Stephen Lawless, Wajdi Mouawad, David McVicar, and Francesca Zambello. By bringing contemporary opera practice into the purview of opera studies, feminist theatre studies, and trauma theory, I take the work of opera practitioners seriously and consider the ways their choices respond to and impact our culture.Staging the implicit or explicit sexual violence in canonic operas can, in the best cases, allow for nuanced commentary on the subject in our cultural moment. Even adding sexual violence to operas that do not typically feature it can open up space for new understandings of familiar stories and characters and mount powerful critiques of the normalization and invisibility of sexual violence in opera history. But putting sexual violence onstage is controversial and poses real risks to survivors of sexual abuse in the audience. By positioning opera performance and reception as public discourse, I interrogate the cultural work done by operatic representations of sexual violence, how they function, and what is at stake when we put rape onstage"--
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