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Author: Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
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Category : Opera
Languages : de
Pages : 100

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Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Author: Piero Melograni
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226519562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Fiona Macintosh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192526251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and emergent, experimental theatre companies. This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre. This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies, English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance, and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form across myriad diverse performance arenas.

Author: John Towers
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Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1056

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Author: Barbara Allman
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 9781575056043
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Describes the life of the eighteenth-century Austrian composer, a musical prodigy who learned to write music before he could write letters and grew up to become Imperial Court Composer to Emperor Joseph.