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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"operatic"”.
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Strategies in Acting for Operatic Performance: Empowering the Powerful
This thesis intends to explore the strategies, consequences and goals of acting in one of the most celebrated western artforms: opera. Told primarily through a first person narrative, and project based, the research of this piece culminated in three semesters teaching Oprea Workshop through Boyer …
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Mapping form/ constructing context : an operatic proposal for Boston
This thesis explores the relationship between form, context, and program through the optic of sound. The project consists of an open assembly of receptive surfaces (a multiple membrane system) that register and retrace different music tempos and acoustical events from the interior and the city's …
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The operatic piano reduction as an art form : a critical evaluation
An operatic piano reduction is a piano arrangement of a full instrumental score of an opera. It is commonly used as a study tool by singers and opera coaches, as a rehearsal score by operatic répétiteurs or rehearsal pianists, and also by vocal accompanists in operatic productions, concerts and …
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Re-envisioning female operatic roles in contemporary performance from a feminist perspective
This research will examine the presentation of female roles in works from the opera canon, focusing on how their compositional and narratological construction aligns or misaligns with the evolution of feminism through its numerous waves. The ideas of some of the leading scholars in musicology and …
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Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918
… Nevin exemplify a shared goal to enact on the operatic stage indigenous stories with American characters, in competition against a field dominated by imported repertoire and singers. The opening chapter examines the nation’s cultural scene at the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing on …
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
… practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing performers. The research uses Butoh as a …
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Preparing for Operatic Roles by Combining Elements of Stanislavsky’s System with Alfreds’ Actioning
This thesis examines the process of preparing for operatic roles by combining elements of Constantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ with Mike Alfreds’ Actioning. The research is presented as a report of a practice-led experiment, using myself as subject, to test the efficacy of Actioning within my …
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Understanding the operatic tenor's legitimate head voice: A comparative study of historical and modern pedagogical approaches
The modern operatic tenor, with his chest-voice-like upper register, produces a vastly different sound to that of the castrato-trained tenore di grazia of the eighteenth century. Notwithstanding this change in tenor vocality, the practice of register-blending or -unification, originally developed …
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Forbidden Fruit: Dryden's The State of Innocence And Fall of Man, An Operatic Version of Paradise Lost
Ever since Dryden published his opera The state of innocence, critics have speculated about his reasons for making a stage adaptation of Milton's Paradise lost. The fact that Dryden worked for Milton in Cromwell's government may have been a factor. Dryden's Puritan indoctrination during childhood, …
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The effect of modular acoustics on a performer's perception in multi-use (symphonic and operatic) concert halls
This thesis studies the varying degrees in a performer' s perception of the difference in the adjustable acoustics of a specific performance hall, namely, what is the difference between the opinions of instrumentalists and vocal musicians? Reverberation times in the Rogers Center auditorium in …
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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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Bygone Modernity: Re-imagining Italian opera in Milan, New York and Buenos Aires, 1887-1914
… provides a detailed study of Italian operatic transfer between Milan, New York and Buenos Aires in the decades around 1900. It investigates how ideas and practices of Italian opera were defined in these two key American cities, offering an explicitly transnational perspective on …
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Opera at the Crossroads of Tradition and Reform in Gluck's Vienna
Operatic history is riddled with reform. Although at the discursive level all operatic reforms share similar motivations, their execution in practice yields extremely different results, each indicative of the time and place in which they occur. Despite their claims to pan-historical aesthetic truth …
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Sacrificial form: the libretti in English 1940-2000
… The “little book” which accompanies every operatic performance is not just an extended program note to the spectacle, but in fact a substantial literary form in its own right. However, despite the immense influence of Wagner, the output from librettists in an operatic collaboration, has …
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Resituating Transatlantic Opera: The Case of the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, 1819-1859
… order to understand more about the ways in which operatic culture shaped and was shaped by city life in this period. New Orleans’s operatic life relied on transatlantic networks of people and materials in order to thrive, and this thesis explores the city’s place within growing global operatic …
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Power in Madness : a critical investigation into the musical representation of female madness in the mad scenes of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia’ from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and Thomas’s ‘Ophélie’ from Hamlet (1868)
… phenomenon most palpably represented in the operatic mad scene, where the insane heroine expresses her madness in an aria of ‘phenomenal difficulty’ (Ashley 2002). This research explores the representation of female madness as power in the mad scenes of two famously mad opera characters: …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… usually voiced by satirical pamphlets and operatic parodies. It concludes that so-called "serious opera" was not always taken too seriously by London audiences, or even by Handel himself. Instead, opera reception in eighteenth-century London was much more complex, sometimes even …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… usually voiced by satirical pamphlets and operatic parodies. It concludes that so-called "serious opera" was not always taken too seriously by London audiences, or even by Handel himself. Instead, opera reception in eighteenth-century London was much more complex, sometimes even …
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