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W. A. Mozart: Così Fan Tutte
At once the most light-hearted and disturbing of Mozart and Da Ponte's Italian comic works, the opera has provoked widely differing reactions from listeners for more than two centuries. This study provides a detailed account of the libretto's complex origins in myth and Italian literary classics.
Gluck and the French Theatre in Vienna
In this richly illustrated study, the Viennese reform of opera and ballet is placed in the context of Christoph Gluck's decade-long involvement with the city's first French theatre, established in 1752. Following a detailed examination of the institutional and cultural frameworks of theatrical life in Maria Theresia's capital (drawing upon important new documentary sources), and of the interaction between Parisian and Viennese repertories, each of the areas of Gluck's activity in the Burgtheater--concerts, opera-comique, and ballet--and their products are examined in turn. Such masterworks as Orfeo ed Euridice and Don Juan are shown to be intimately connected with the regular musical repertory of the French theatre, which was itself rich in innovation; in addition, a large number of works by Gluck (and his colleagues) are identified and analyzed here for the first time.
The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-century Stage
Italian ballet in the eighteenth century was dominated by dancers trained in the style known as "grotesque"—a virtuoso style that combined French ballet technique with a vigorous athleticism that made Italian dancers in demand all over Europe. Gennaro Magri’s Trattato teorico-prattico di ballo, the only work from the eighteenth century that explains the practices of midcentury Italian theatrical dancing, is a starting point for investigating this influential type of ballet and its connections to the operatic and theatrical genres of its day. The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage examines the theatrical world of the ballerino grottesco, Magri’s own career as a dancer in I...
Understanding the Women of Mozart's Operas
Is The Marriage of Figaro just about Figaro? Is Don Giovanni’s story the only one—or even the most interesting one—in the opera that bears his name? For generations of critics, historians, and directors, it’s Mozart’s men who have mattered most. Too often, the female characters have been understood from the male protagonist’s point of view or simply reduced on stage (and in print) to paper cutouts from the age of the powdered wig and the tightly cinched corset. It’s time to give Mozart’s women—and Mozart’s multi-dimensional portrayals of feminine character—their due. In this lively book, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozartâ...
The Poor Man's Guide to Filmmaking
Want to make a film but have no money? Have a great idea, bags of ambition, but need a starting place? Then this is the book for you. It describes how to beg and borrow to get your first film made, from the script writing to the directing to the editing. Then, how to get your film (and you) noticed without studio backing. The resources are all around you, so read this and get going-YOU HAVE A FILM TO MAKE.
Stirred Gift
Tens of thousands of people around the world, young and old, have claimed encounters with them. They show up in private moments of distress and danger, and then... they're gone. Some say they're angels; others think they're departed loved ones, benevolent specters, or something extraterrestrial. But what if they're not? What if they're something else altogether? Rook Rhodes tried to forget an experience he had at age fourteen, but it continued to haunt him for the following seventeen years. When he made up his mind—with the help of his knowledgeable friend and co-worker, Jaden Foss, and two ill-prepared prayer warriors—to confront the thing that distressed him, he discovered that what aw...
Robert the Bruce
Comprising a collection of contemporary and near-contemporary documents from both Scotland and England, and with commentaries by the author, this book details the life of Scotland’s greatest king. It includes Barbour’s The Bruce, an epic poem, which is the closest surviving source of documentary evidence. A masterpiece of research, this book is essential reading for any student of the period and anyone interested in Robert the Bruce.
A Pornographer
A memoir by adult filmmaker Arch Brown, who recounts his interviews in the late 1960s and early 1970s with many of the men and women who wanted to star in his sex films-some who did, others who did not.
Pagodas in Play
Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and oper...
King and Outlaw
The iconic figure of Robert the Bruce has gone down through the centuries as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. With equal parts tenacity and ruthlessness, he had himself crowned King of Scotland after murdering one of his most powerful rivals, and so began the rule of an indomitable military genius unafraid of breaking convention, and more than a few English heads. Indeed, it was under the leadership of King Robert that the Battle of Bannockburn took place – a famous victory snatched by a tiny Scots force against a larger, supposedly more sophisticated English foe. In King and Outlaw medieval expert Chris Brown explores the life of Robert the Bruce, whose remarkable history has merged with legend, and reveals the true story of the outlaw king.
