New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera (eBook, ePUB)

The Practitioners' Perspectives
Redaktion: Zhang, Jingyi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first and only book that approaches the dramaturgy of contemporary opera from the unique perspectives of living practitioners who provide valuable first-hand insight into the coming into being of an opera today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040203835
• Artikelnr.: 72275418

Autorenporträt

Jingyi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Harvard University. As a music and cultural historian, her research interests center on themes of racial identity, mobility, media technology, and decolonial thinking in 19th to 21st century songs, opera, and theater.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Contemporary Opera and New Dramaturgies

JINGYI ZHANG

PART I: New Dramaturgical Considerations

1. Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative: The First Ten Years

KELLEY ROURKE

2. Interview with Beth Morrison

BETH MORRISON AND JINGYI ZHANG

3. Seeking the Philosopher's Stone: On the Alchemy of Time in Creative Dramaturgy

DAVID T. LITTLE

PART II: Representing Non-Western Cultures and Perspectives

4. Musicalizing the World: Dramaturgical Considerations of Non-European Culture in Contemporary Opera

KAMALA SANKARAM

5. Investigating Operatic Decolonization in the Hypermobility Turn: The Industry's Sweet Land (2020)

JINGYI ZHANG

6. Interview with Du Yun

DU YUN AND JINGYI ZHANG

PART III: Site-Specific Dramaturgies

7. Landscape Dramaturgy and (Post)Opera: Singing after Perspective

JELENA NOVAK

8. Pastoral Paradox: Staging Ted Hearne's Farming (2023) and Kate Soper's The Hunt (2023)

ASHLEY KELLY TATA

9. Interview with Pamela Z

PAMELA Z AND JINGYI ZHANG

PART IV: Creative Possibilities of Transmedia Dramaturgy

10. Tradition, Transmedia, and Music in Contemporary Japanese Performing Arts

KRISZTINA ROSNER

11. Biometrics, AI, Embodiment, Performative Practices, and the New Dramaturgy

ELLEN PEARLMAN

12. Interview with Noa Frenkel

NOA FRENKEL AND JINGYI ZHANG

Rezensionen

Opera is a living art that has undergone constant transformation over the course of over four centuries of history. Those transformations encompass shifts in modes of composition, adaptation, staging, performance, and patronage that have been well documented by music historians. Far less attention, however, has been paid to the emergent practices that are revitalizing the operatic stage today, particularly from the standpoint of practitioners. New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera brilliantly steps into the breach by bringing together some of the world's most innovative librettists, composers, directors, producers, and dramaturgs to reflect critically and creatively on their work.

Jeffrey Schnapp, founder and director, metaLAB (at) Harvard

As opera ponders new forms of address and explores non-traditional venues it also becomes a borderland between performers and their audiences but also a meeting place for the ever more porous areas of theory and practice. New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera chronicles this rapprochement all the while redefining contemporary opera as a cross-cultural genre.

Giorgio Biancorosso, editor of Sound Stage Screen

If two decades ago opera was unsettled and programmatically unsettling, in Zhang's ingenious collection opera is an expanded field of cultural politics, unavoidably enmeshed with decolonial interventions and public spaces, with the imaginary politics of hypermobility, with the all-pervading sense of civic responsibility of any creative effort. 'Dramaturgy' then serves as a device that mobilizes a deeply felt engagement with the politics of creative practices, and with the necessary hybridizations and recontextualizations of the bodies of opera, in their overdetermined historicity. The essays collected here testify to the wealth of critical labours entailed by the creative process of 21th-century composers and producers, librettists, dramaturgs, and scholars - of their intense engagement with opera's institutionality and cultural politics.

Alessandra Campana, Tufts University