Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.
What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.
This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
| ISBN: | 9780367645052 |
| Publication date: | 31st May 2023 |
| Author: | Clemens Risi |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 188 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Music of film and stage |
Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.
What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.
This book will particularly interest scholars and students in theater and performance studies, musicology, and the humanities, and may also appeal to operagoers and theater professionals.
Opera in Performance features in the following genres: Opera, Cultural studies, Media studies, Performance art, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theatre studies, Theory of music and musicology, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, History, The arts: general topics
Opera in Performance is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Opera in Performance was written by Clemens Risi and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Opera in Performance has 188 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies series
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