Verdi in Performance

Edited by Alison Latham and Roger Parker

Verdi in Performance

Edited by Alison Latham and Roger Parker

Description

This collection of essays addresses the issue of how to make Verdi's operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. Here, both scholars and music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as "authentic" staging, performance practice, and the role of critical editions.

Verdi in Performance

Edited by Alison Latham and Roger Parker

1. The Pains and Pleasures of Liberation, Alison Latham, Roger Parker
PART I: STAGING VERDI
2. Staging Verdi's Operas: the Single, 'Correct' Performance, James Hepokoski
3. In Praise of the Pragmatic, Andrew Porter
4. On Staging that Matters, David Rosen
5. 'Trust the tale, not the teller', John Rosselli
6. Misinterpreting Verdian Dramaturgy: History and Grand Opera, Mike Ashman
PART II: INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL PERFORMANCE
7. Ornamenting Verdi Arias: the Continuity of a Tradition, David Lawton
8. On 'Exactly what is written', Clive Brown
9. The Rubber Band, Mark Elder
PART III: VERDI AND THE BALLET
10. Verdi and the Ballet a Knud Arne Jurgensen
11. Ballet in Italy: the Background to Verdi, Kathleen K Hansell
12. Milan and Paris: a Lastin Dialogue, Gunhilde Oberzaucher-Schuller
13. A Conflict of Interests, Jose Sasportes
14. Drawing the Audience in: the Theatre and the Ballroom, Marian Smith
15. The Feminization of Ballet, Maribeth Clark
16. 'Reading' Ballet, Rebecca Harris-Warrick
PART IV: EDITIONS AND PERFORMANCE
17. Critical Editions and Performance, Philip Gossett
18. Critical Editions and Critical Performance, Francesco Degrada
19. With Real Bullets in Tosca, Gabriele Dotto
20. The 'Textualization' of Opera, Stefano Castelvecchi
APPENDICES
List of Works
Chronology of Verdi's Life and Times, Alison Latham

Verdi in Performance

Edited by Alison Latham and Roger Parker

Author Information

Contributors:

Mike Ashman, opera director
Clive Brown, Reader in Music, Bretton Hall, University of Leeds
Maribeth Clark, Assistant Professor of Music, New College, University of Southern Florida
Francesco Degrada, Professor of Music, Universita di Milano
Gabriele Dotto, Editorial Director, BMG Ricordi, Milan
Mark Elder, orchestral conductor
Philip Gossett, Professor of Music, University of Chicago
Kathleen K. Hansell, Managing Editor of the Verdi Critical Edition, University of Chicago Press
Rebecca Harris-Warrick, Associate Professor of Music, Cornell University
James Hepokoski, Professor of Music, Yale University
Knud Arne Jürgensen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Alison Latham, Editor, the Oxford Companion to Music
David Lawton, Professor of Music, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller, Forschungsinstitut fur Musiktheater, Universitat Bayreuth
Roger Parker, Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
Andrew Porter, music critic, Times Literary Supplement
Harold Powers, Professor of Music, Princeton University
David Rosen, Professor of Music, Cornell University
John Rosselli, former Reader in History, University of Sussex
José Sasportes, Minister of Culture, Lisbon, Portugal
Marian Smith, Professor of Music, University of Oregon

Verdi in Performance

Edited by Alison Latham and Roger Parker

Reviews and Awards

"[A] timely and welcome contribution...[A]collection of instructive and perceptive essays that bridge the gap between scholarship and practice...[A] valuable source that will serve to enlighten readers about significant issues affecting the operatic experience today."--Journal of Musicological Research