Title Statements
- Full title :Believing in opera / Tom Sutcliffe.
Summary
In Believing in Opera, Sutcliffe illustrates how updating, relocation and a variety of unexpected imagery in opera have qualified and adjusted our perception of the content and intention of established masterpieces.
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- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xv, 464 pages : : illustrations)
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1285462952
- LC Classification:ML1700
- Dewey Decimal:782.1
Table of Contents
Believing in opera -- Peter Brook and theatrical opera -- Theory of interpretation -- A repertoire of classics -- The design matrix -- Patrice Chereau: revolutionary classicism -- Ruth Berghaus: Marx, feminism and the absurd -- David Alden: expressionist shock -- Peter Sellars: Americanizing everything -- Richard Jones: burlesque profundities -- Graham Vick: neo-realism and emotion -- Albery, Pimlott, Cairns: British expressionism -- A line of renewal: from Hall to Pountney -- Brian McMaster's eclectic imports -- Frankfurt and after: from Neuenfels to Decker -- 21st-century opera: going for a song -- Appendix: Buhnenreform (Theatre Reform) -- Postscript -- Index
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