Opera Through Other Eyes

ISBN-13: 9780804722407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str.

David J. Levin

Opis

This collection of eight essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis. A notable feature of this volume is the first English translation of Bfuergerliche Oper (Bourgeois Opera), a major work of interdisciplinary operatic analysis by Theodor Adorno. Beginning with Adorno's piece, the essays offer a broad variety of contemporary critical approaches ranging from the Frankfurt School through Lacanian psychoanalysis and post-structuralism to discourse analysis. The essays vary in focus from readings of individual operas (from Monteverdi and Striggio's Orfeo 1607] to John Adams and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China 1987]) to problems of the canon and operatic textuality per se.