Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth by Will, Richard

Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth

"Don Giovanni" Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its...
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Author: Richard Will
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Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth by Will, Richard

Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth

€95,15

Don Giovanni Captured: Performance, Media, Myth

€95,15
Author: Richard Will
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"Don Giovanni" Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique--an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims.

In "Don Giovanni" Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century's worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.

Author: Richard Will
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 06/14/2022
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.22w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780226815411

About the Author
Richard Will is professor of music at the University of Virginia. His publications include The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven and Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism.

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