Remaking the Song

Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio

By: Roger Parker

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Hardcover | 20 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Opera performances are often radically inventive. Composers' revisions, singers' improvisations, and stage directors' re-imaginings continually challenge our visions of canonical works. But do they go far enough? This elegantly written, beautifully concise book, spanning almost the entire history of opera, reexamines attitudes toward some of our best-loved musical works. It looks at opera's history of multiple visions and revisions and asks a simple question: what exactly is opera? Remaking the Song, rich in imaginative answers, considers works by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Berio in order to challenge what many regard as sacroscant: the opera's musical text. Scholarly tradition favors the idea of great operatic texts permanently inscribed in the canon. Roger Parker, considering examples ranging from Cecilia Bartoli's much-criticized insistence on using Mozart's alternative arias in the Marriage of Figaro to Luciano Berio's new ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, argues that opera is an inherently mutable form, and that all of us--performers, listeners, scholars--should celebrate operatic revisions as a way of opening works to contemporary needs and new pleasures.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Music Music Styles & Genres Western Classical Music & Opera Opera History of Art & Design Styles Theory of Music & Musicology Design, Industrial & Commercial Arts, Illustration Graphic Design

Remaking the song	p. 1
Of Andalusian maidens and recognition scenes : crossed wires in Il trovatore and La traviata	p. 22
Ersatz ditties : Adriana Ferrarese's Susanna	p. 42
In search of Verdi	p. 67
Berio's Turandot : once more the great tradition	p. 90
Sudden charms : the progress of an aria	p. 121
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Remaking the Song

Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio

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