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Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater
2020
Overview
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. Unique about
Penner's approach is her engagement with current work in analytic
philosophy. Her study reveals not only the resources this
philosophical tradition can bring to musicology but those which
musicology can bring to philosophy, challenging and refining
accounts of narrative, point of view, and the work-performance
relationship within both disciplines. She also considers practical
problems singers and directors confront on a daily basis, such as
what to do about Wagner's Jewish caricatures and the racism of
Orientalist operas. More generally, Penner reflects on how
centuries-old works remain meaningful to contemporary audiences and
have the power to attract new, more diverse audiences to opera and
musical theater. By exploring how practitioners past and present
have addressed these issues, Storytelling in Opera and Musical
Theater offers suggestions for how opera and musical theater
can continue to entertain and enrich the lives of 21st-century
audiences.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780253049964, 0253049962, 9780253049971, 0253049970
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