Книга: Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker «A History of Opera: The Last 400 Years»

A History of Opera: The Last 400 Years

Производитель: "Penguin Books Ltd."

Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation, provides in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg and Britten. There are lively discussions of opera`s social, political and literary backgrounds, its economic circumstances and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. Central to the book is an exploration of the tensions - between words and music, character and singer - that have always sustained and enlivened opera. In a polemical final chapter, Abbate and Parker examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works - which were... ISBN:978-0-713-99633-3

Издательство: "Penguin Books Ltd." (2012)

ISBN: 978-0-713-99633-3

Roger Parker

Roger Parker (born London United Kingdom, 2 August, 1951) is an English musicologist, and is currently Thurston Dart Professor of Music at King's College London.

He studied at the University of London, first at Goldsmiths' College, then at King's College London. In 1982, he moved to Cornell University in upstate New York, where he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor. In 1994 he came back to England to become a Lecturer in Music (later Professor) and Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. In 1999 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge University, where he was a Fellow of St John's College and (in 2005-6) Chair of the School of Arts and Humanities. In 2002 he was the Visiting Ernest Bloch Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley; in 2007 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Roger Parker's work has centred on opera, in particular Italian opera of the nineteenth century. For ten years he was founding co-editor (with Arthur Groos) of the "Cambridge Opera Journal", and he continues as General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of the "Donizetti Critical Edition".

He received the "Premio Giuseppe Verdi" in 1986, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1986-7, and in 1991 was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association.

In 2007 he became Professor of Music at Gresham College, London, in which post he gives free public lectures.

Recent Publications

* "The New Grove Guide to Verdi and his Operas" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
* "Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio" (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
* “The Opera Industry”, in Jim Samson, ed., "The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music" (Cambridge, 2002), 87-117
* “Philippe and Posa Act II: The Shock of the New”, "Cambridge Opera Journal", 14/1-2 (2002), 133-47
* "Gaetano Donizetti, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali", in "Le opere di Gaetano Donizetti" (Milan: Ricordi, 2002; vocal score, 2003). Joint editor with Anders Wiklund
* "Pensieri per un maestro: Studi in onore di Pierluigi Petrobelli" (Turin: Einaudi, 2002). Joint editor with Stefano La Via

External links

* [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/text.asp?PageId=30 Roger Parker] at Gresham College

Источник: Roger Parker

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