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245 00 a| Opera and the Golden West :b| the past, present, and future of opera in the U.S.A. /c| edited by John L. DiGaetani and Josef P. Sirefman.;

300 a| 311 pages ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Based on a conference held at Hofstra University, sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-304) and index.;

520 a| This book is a celebration of opera's difficult past in America. It focuses in part on early repertory and how European operatic masterpieces became part of American culture. It also calls attention to the efforts of American composers as they continually tried to make original contributions to a foreign musical form. Throughout this anthology the contributors use a variety of approaches and styles to analyze the many aspects of opera, and how the form fared in the U.S. In addition to observing where opera has been in this country, this anthology also has an eye to the future. Opera presentation in the coming century may be very different from the current experience. Economics, always a critical factor, may well dictate a different scale of production. Changing tastes in directorial and production values and the expansion of television and video into the home are indicators that a new era has arrived.;

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700 1 a| Sirefman, Josef P.,e| editor.=| ^A189119;

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Opera and the Golden West : the past, present, and future of opera in the U.S.A. / edited by John L. DiGaetani and Josef P. Sirefman.

Other author	DiGaetani, John Louis, 1943- editor.
Other author	Sirefman, Josef P., editor.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1994.
Description	311 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects	Opera--United States. --Congresses.

Contents	American opera: an early suggestion of context / Edith Borroff -- Early managers of the repertoire / Julian Mates -- New York and Philadelphia, 1825-1840: European opera American style / June C. Ottenberg -- Popular opera and bands in the American Civil War / Phillipa Burgess -- Old world libretti for new world settings / Mario Hamlet-Metz -- American opera in the Gilded Age: America's first professional touring opera company / Emanuel Rubin -- Pasquilino Brignoli: tenor of the Golden West / Michael B. Dougan -- Opera activity in Texas before the twentieth century / Gary D. Gibbs -- David Belasco and Giacomo Puccini: their collaboration / Shelby J. Davis -- Uncle Giacomo's cabin: David Belasco's direction of La fanciulla del West / Roxana Stuart -- Puccini's Fanciulla as exemplar for American composers / Thomas Warburton -- Parsifal performances in America, 1886-1903: changing taste and the popular press / Michael Saffle -- Gustav Mahler and opera in America, 1907-1910 / Zoltan Roman -- Selling Salome in America / Nadine Sine -- Debussy's unfinished American opera: La chute de la maison Usher / Jean-Francçois Thibault -- Verdi, America, and Adelina Patti / Martin Chusid -- Kansas City composer meets regency dandy: Virgil Thomson's Lord Bryon / Alice Levine -- A strange case: Louis Gruenberg's forgotten "great American" opera: The Emperor Jones / Marjorie Mackay Shapiro -- The spectacle of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra / Jon Solomon -- Adam in wonderland: Krzystof Penderecki and the American Bicentennial / Joann Krieg -- Modern pop currency in contemporary American opera: a case study of Elvis in Vancouver's production of Carmen, 1986 / Christopher Newton -- Toward a popular opera / Sheila Sabrey-Saperstein -- More singing! Less talking!: the operatic American musical / Monica T. Albala -- Operatic conventions and the American musical / Joseph P. Swain.
Abstract	This book is a celebration of opera's difficult past in America. It focuses in part on early repertory and how European operatic masterpieces became part of American culture. It also calls attention to the efforts of American composers as they continually tried to make original contributions to a foreign musical form. Throughout this anthology the contributors use a variety of approaches and styles to analyze the many aspects of opera, and how the form fared in the U.S. In addition to observing where opera has been in this country, this anthology also has an eye to the future. Opera presentation in the coming century may be very different from the current experience. Economics, always a critical factor, may well dictate a different scale of production. Changing tastes in directorial and production values and the expansion of television and video into the home are indicators that a new era has arrived.
General note	Based on a conference held at Hofstra University, sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-304) and index.
LCCN	92055065
ISBN	0838635199 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780838635193 (alk. paper)

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