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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"national opera"”.
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Design for a national opera house
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1891
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A national opera house for Sydney, Australia
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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Unmanageable opera?: the artistic-economic dichotomy and its manifestations in the organisational structures of five opera organisations
… in recent years of problems in the management of opera houses in Europe, especially those of an economic and managerial nature. This thesis concentrates on analysing these issues and suggests that there are inherent tensions in running an opera organisation which cause these difficulties. A key …
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… centre stage in scholarship on contemporary operatic practice, this thesis conceptualises new opera as rehearsal. With accounts of entire rehearsal phases, I shift the focus to the development process of world premiere productions in Europe to sound out the wider agential networks at play. …
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Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918
This dissertation explores six selected operas written by American composers and librettists from the 1910s, the earliest decade in which this nation supported the widespread and frequent production of operas by native artists. Example works by Charles Wakefield Cadman, Frederick Converse, Henry …
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Tracing the Development of Willie Stark and Its Place in American Opera
… for the Performing Arts and later Houston Grand Opera. Floyd’s libretto and musical score was based upon Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel All The King’s Men. Despite the vast amount of publicity it received at the premiere, this opera has only occasionally been performed in the …