Opera on stage / edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli ; translations from the Italian by Kate Singleton.

Other author Bianconi, Lorenzo, editor.
Other author Pestelli, Giorgio, editor.
Other author Singleton, Kate, translator.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Descriptionxiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Opera--Production and direction. --Italy.
Ballet--Italy. --History.

Uniform titleSpettacolarità. English.
SeriesThe history of Italian opera ; v. 5. Part II, Systems
Storia dell'opera italiana. English ; v. 5. ^A983324
Storia dell'opera italiana. Parte II, Sistemi. English. ^A1413139
Contents Stage and set / Mercedes Viale Ferrero. Theatrical spaces and designers. Space and the set ; Spaces and opera genres ; Spaces and their appreciation ; Spaces and privilege ; Spaces and techniques ; Designers and their audiences ; Designers and critics (practice and theory) ; Designers and practitioners ; Originality and convention ; Iconographia theatralis -- The evolution of stage design. The birth of opera ; Single and multiple sets ; The great dynasties of opera designers ; The staging of three exemplary productions ; Theatrical architecture, set design, and painting ; Rome and Arcadia ; Another great dynasty, the Bibienas: sets and theaters ; Two examples of staging ; Metastasiana ; Travelers and residents: stage designers and theatrical organizations ; Three productions and their sets ; The new theaters ; Two points to bear in mind ; Revolution and conservation ; The permanence of the ephemeral ; The restoration: innovation in images and the imaginary ; Felice Romani's production books ; Reflections on the sets for two librettos by Felice Romani ; Developments in Milan and elsewhere ; Verdi and the early production books ; Giuseppe Bertoja, set designer for Verdi (and others) ; More on Verdi ; The turn of the century ; Staging Puccini ; New experiences ; The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino -- Directing opera / Gerardo Guccini. Stage direction in Italian opera. From the Corago to the Maestro di scena: possible variations and significant developments in the baroque theater ; Clients and impresarios ; Pietro Metastasio and the profession of the theatrical poet ; The treatise writers and the principle of authority ; Designing and directing repertory opera productions ; The stage manager -- Opera direction in Italy. The beginnings of opera direction in Italy ; The impact and spread of Luchino Visconti's work as an opera director ; Zeffirelli, Strehler, and Ronconi: three different approaches to opera direction ; Operas and direction -- Theatrical ballet and Italian opera / Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell. Ballet during the age of Venetian opera, 1640-1720. The rise of theatrical dance: general trends ; Consolidation of tendencies: characteristic features of later seventeenth-century stage dance -- Opera seria, dramma giocoso, and the challenge of pantomime ballet, 1720-1795. A question of entr'actes: ballets during the period of vocal intermezzi ; 1740-1765: the rise of Italian pantomime ballet ; 1766-1776: a decade of debate and questioning ; The end of the century: Italian ballet preeminent -- Ballet and the melodrama: flower and decline, 1796-1872. Pantomime at its zenith, 1796-1821: the coreodramma ; 1822-1849: the Ballo d'Azione in its last flowering: the encounter with romantic ballet and Grand Opéra ; 1850-1872: the ballet subsued in the opera -- Epilogue: fin de siècle.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2001005834
ISBN0226045919 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
ISBN9780226045917 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
Standard identifier# 99817935095