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Showing 1 to 20 of 610 for “"opera"”.
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Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre
Nearly every opera company in North America conducts some form of outreach to children with the intent to educate and develop young audiences. By examining the forty-year history of Opera Delaware's Family Opera Theatre, the biography of its most influential director, Evelyn Swensson, and four …
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The New Opera : how can the modern opera reach new audience?
… research paper builds on the concept „The New Opera“ and aims to identify new ways and strategies that will connect new audiences with Opera houses today. The theoretical value of the study is to identify the New Opera concept and bringing new audiences to the Opera based on the theories of …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
… where so-called “high art” in general and opera in particular are not natural candidates for popular stardom? This dissertation argues that magazines, as mainstream media, have played an important role over time in representing opera singers as viable celebrities for national attention and …
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Mantra: a chamber opera
Mantra: A Chamber Opera is as much an exercise in group-meditation as it is a piece of music. With a very slow, subtle unfolding of musical material and timbral shifts, the drama is distilled down to its essence. Instead of a grand narrative involving a linear plot with many characters, the action …
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Representing children in opera
… of how composers have represented children in opera from the late nineteenth century onwards. Operatic roles for children are analysed from a primarily technical perspective, with those written specifically for children's voices presented alongside those intended for adults playing children; …
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Opera for children : a comprehensive guide to writing, directing, producing and touring children's opera
Opera for Children: A Comprehensive Guide to Writing, Directing, Producing, and Touring Children’s Opera presents an organized approach to creating and producing an opera performed specifically for children in elementary schools by a group of pre-professional or professional opera singers with …
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The challenges of opera direction
The Challenges of Opera Direction is an investigation of the art of the opera stage director. In addition to a brief history of opera, the investigation includes opinions of leading international directors. Furthermore it details directing techniques and examples gleaned from the direction of …
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Doctoral thesis recital (opera directing)
Little women / words and music by Mark Adamo ; after the novel by Louisa May Alcott (conductor, Kelly Kuo).
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Opera considered as state ceremony
… to show the ways in which governments treat opera as an institution, endorsing, through ceremony and ritual, the power of the state. Its main contention is that the opera institution (which combines opera companies and opera houses) is useful to the state and supported by it for reasons other …
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Design for an opera house
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1892
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A Different Drummer: A Chamber Opera
A Different Drummer is a chamber opera adaptation of Donald Davis's story "A Different Drummer" from his collection Listening for the Crack of Dawn, published by August House. The opera lasts about seventy minutes, and calls for a cast of three and an orchestra of sixteen players. It contains a …
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Contemporary opera in Britain, 1970-2010
This study of contemporary opera in Britain considers first, the theoretical aspects of the creation of an opera, then moves to a survey of British opera companies and their productions of modern opera over the past 40 years. There follows a detailed study of three works produced in Britain during …
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Pelléas et Mélisande as symbolist opera
… Symbolism (Lesure, 2001). This is the only opera that Debussy completed during his lifetime, and in it he succeeded in combining words and music in a way he could realise his musical ideals.
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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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Opera avanti a Dio! : religion and opera in liberal Italy from unification to the First World War
… Catholic Church and the new state, religion in opera in Liberal Italy took on a new significance, both in new works and the revival of operas from earlier in the nineteenth century. Focusing on repertoire reflecting Catholic settings and theology, this thesis offers a fresh argument about the …
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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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Cry wolf : an opera for young audiences
Cry Wolf is a seventy-minute chamber opera for young audiences based on characters from Aesop’s fables, with a libretto by William Glick. A semi-staged production was premiered in April 2017 at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin. The opera tells the story of the ‘Boy …
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Tome : a chamber opera in one act
Tome, a chamber opera in one act on a libretto by Maile Meloy, tells the story of Laura, a lawyer whose client, Sawyer, is suing for a tort claim following a debilitating head injury he received while working construction, leaving him with a chimerical grasp on reality and a quickly eroding …
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