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The Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera series provides a centralized and prominent forum for the presentation of cutting-edge scholarship that draws on numerous disciplinary approaches to a wide range of subjects associated with the creation, performance, and reception of opera and related genres in various historical and social contexts. Studies of all kinds, especially those that go beyond traditional approaches to reflect new perspectives not only in musicology, but in areas such as comparative literature, social history, philosophy, visual arts, theatre history and performance studies, film studies, political science, psychoanalysis, science, and medicine, are welcome. The series continues to move important scholarly trends forward by encouraging original scholarship that interrogates the complex means of artistic expression operative in opera. Essay collections and monographs on topics from the seventeenth century to contemporary times and from all geographical locations, including non-Western topics, are welcome.

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Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Roberta Montemorra Marvin
May 27, 2024

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic “experiences” outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century. The essays adopt a variety of perspectives exploring the processes through which opera and ideas about opera were cultivated and ...

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas Sources, Performance, Interpretation

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance, Interpretation

1st Edition

Edited By Ellen Rosand, Stefano La Via
January 29, 2024

Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi’s late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective. The premise of the volume is the idea that constructive ...

Genre Beyond Borders Reassessing Operetta

Genre Beyond Borders: Reassessing Operetta

1st Edition

Edited By Bruno Bower, Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, Sonja Starkmeth
December 18, 2023

This book offers an innovative approach to understanding operetta, drawing attention to its malleability and resistance to boundaries. These shows have traversed (and continue to traverse) with ease the national borders which might superficially define them, or draw on features from many other ...

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century

1st Edition

By Caitlin Vincent
May 31, 2023

Digital Scenography in Opera in the Twenty-First Century is the first definitive study of the use of digital scenography in Western opera production. The book begins by exploring digital scenography’s dramaturgical possibilities and establishes a critical framework for identifying and comparing the...

The Operas of Rameau Genesis, Staging, Reception

The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception

1st Edition

Edited By Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson, Jonathan Williams
May 31, 2023

In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera houses and festivals, while the production of first-rate recordings on CD and DVD continues to ...

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

1st Edition

By Magnus Tessing Schneider
May 31, 2023

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his ...

Curating Opera Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art

Curating Opera: Reinventing the Past Through Museums of Opera and Art

1st Edition

By Stephen Mould
August 29, 2022

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture. The purpose of this study is to explore the curatorial forces at work within the modern opera house and to examine the functionaries and processes that guide them. In turn, ...

Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands In Concert and on Stage

Contextualizing Melodrama in the Czech Lands: In Concert and on Stage

1st Edition

By Judith Mabary
April 29, 2022

The mention of the term "melodrama" is likely to evoke a response from laymen and musicians alike that betrays an acquaintance only with the popular form of the genre and its greatly heightened drama, exaggerated often to the point of the ridiculous. Few are aware that there exists a type of ...

The Operatic Archive American Opera as History

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History

1st Edition

By Colleen Renihan
April 28, 2020

The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History extends the growing interdisciplinary conversation in opera studies by drawing on new research in performance studies and the philosophy of history. Moving beyond traditional aesthetic conceptions of opera, this book argues for opera’s powerful ...

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama

1st Edition

Edited By Jelena Novak, John Richardson
December 19, 2019

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s most celebrated collaboration, the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach, had its premiere at the Avignon Festival in 1976. During its initial European tour, Metropolitan Opera premiere, and revivals in 1984 and 1992, Einstein provoked opposed reactions from both ...

The Grand Theater of the World Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Rome

The Grand Theater of the World: Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern Rome

1st Edition

Edited By Valeria De Lucca, Christine Jeanneret
September 16, 2019

Music and space in the early modern world shaped each other in profound ways, and this is particularly apparent when considering Rome, a city that defined itself as the "grande teatro del mondo". The aim of this book is to consider music and space as fundamental elements in the performance of ...

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

1st Edition

By Kathryn Fenton
September 04, 2019

On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an ...

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