Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
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Nina Penner's Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is a remarkable blend of musicology and philosophy [that . . .] deserves to be a foundational text for future work on musical theatre.
» Andrew Kania, The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism
Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Through examples from opera's origins to contemporary musicals, Nina Penner examines the roles of character-narrators and how they differ from those in literary and cinematic works, how music can orient spectators to characters' points of view, how being privy to characters' inner thoughts and feelings may evoke feelings of sympathy or empathy, and how performers' choices affect not only who is telling the story but what story is being told. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Indiana University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 312
- ISBN
- 9780253049964
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«
Nina Penner's Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater is a remarkable blend of musicology and philosophy [that . . .] deserves to be a foundational text for future work on musical theatre.
» Andrew Kania, The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism