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Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions

Opera in Performance: Analyzing the Performative Dimension of Opera Productions

Risi, Clemens

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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ISBN10: 036764505X
ISBN13: 9780367645052
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Opera in Performance elucidates the performative dimension of contemporary opera productions.

What are the most striking and decisive moments in a performance? Why do we respond so strongly to stagings that transform familiar scenes, to performers' bodily presence, and to virtuosic voices as well as ill-disposed ones? Drawing on phenomenology and performance theory, Clemens Risi explains how these moments arise out of a dialogue between performers and the audience, representation and presence, the familiar and the new. He then applies these insights in critical descriptions of his own experiences of various singers, stagings, and performances at opera houses and festivals from across the German-speaking world over the last twenty years. As the first book to focus on what happens in performance as such, this study shifts our attention to moments that have eluded articulation and provides tools for describing our own experiences when we go to the opera.

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