Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry JamesRodopi, 2005 - 494 páginas Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James offers the first full-length study of the theory and practice of the adaptation of fiction into opera: the transference of a work from one medium to another - metaphrasis - is its point of departure. Starting with a survey of the current thinking regarding the nexus between words and music with specific reference to operatic adaptation of existing literary works, it traces the four-hundred-year history of opera, demonstrating that the novel has become increasingly attractive to librettists and composers as an operatic source. As the resources of modern music theatre have increased in sophistication, so too have the possibilities for an expanded engagement with complex fictional works. The intricate relationship between fictional and musical narrative is examined: the proposition that the orchestra assumes much of the function of the narrator in fiction is explored. The second section is a detailed examination of eight operatic works based on Henry James's fiction. It is opera's unique capability to present the intense emotional and psychological situations central to James's fiction as well as the ability to engage with his synthesis of melodrama and psychological ambiguity which makes James's work peculiarly amenable to operatic adaptation. Composers who have used James as a source include Douglas Moore, Benjamin Britten, Thomas Pasatieri, Donald Hollier, Thea Musgrave, Philip Hagemann and Dominick Argento. The operas discussed represent a contemporary critical and often self-conscious engagement with the art form itself as well as illustrating current adaptive strategies, and suggest ways in which new operatic paths may be forged. This volume is of relevance to students and scholars of English literature and opera as well as readers who take an interest in intermedial research and the question of adaptation in general. |
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... take on a deep and enduring meaning once the dramaturgical conception is generated by the music , and is structurally analogous to it , though avoiding a tautological similarity ” ( 296 ) . Qualifying this , he remarks that " musical ...
... take on a deep and enduring meaning once the dramaturgical conception is generated by the music , and is structurally analogous to it , though avoiding a tautological similarity ” ( 296 ) . Qualifying this , he remarks that " musical ...
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... takes more time - real time not to be confused with musi- cal time - than words . While it is true that poetry and music appeal to the same sense , and that both are temporal arts , poetry in its continuous movement presents a ...
... takes more time - real time not to be confused with musi- cal time - than words . While it is true that poetry and music appeal to the same sense , and that both are temporal arts , poetry in its continuous movement presents a ...
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... takes over some of the function that had been reserved previously for sacred ritual . Perhaps the quintessential combination of Scott , romanticism and bel canto is Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ) , a work which embodies all ...
... takes over some of the function that had been reserved previously for sacred ritual . Perhaps the quintessential combination of Scott , romanticism and bel canto is Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 ) , a work which embodies all ...
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... takes up many of the issues adumbrated in Strauss's opera . 18 Schmidgall , writing in 1977 , offers a pessimistic view of the musical situation current at the time of writing , which was naturally in thrall to the post - war avant for ...
... takes up many of the issues adumbrated in Strauss's opera . 18 Schmidgall , writing in 1977 , offers a pessimistic view of the musical situation current at the time of writing , which was naturally in thrall to the post - war avant for ...
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... take place as well as inevitable character transfor- mations . This is why the reading of the libretto alone can give such a two - dimensional and frequently distorted picture of what the final result might be . Dynamic markings , vocal ...
... take place as well as inevitable character transfor- mations . This is why the reading of the libretto alone can give such a two - dimensional and frequently distorted picture of what the final result might be . Dynamic markings , vocal ...
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James Structure Scene and Picture | 103 |
The Turn of the Screw | 117 |
The Wings of the Dove | 161 |
Owen Wingrave | 221 |
The Last of the Valerii | 267 |
Washington Square | 303 |
The Aspern Papers | 361 |
Conclusion | 429 |
Appendix | 437 |
Bibliography | 479 |
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Página 151 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Página 36 - For this reason, one text is potentially capable of several different realizations, and no reading can ever exhaust the full potential, for each individual reader will fill in the gaps in his own way...
Página 94 - Nothing is spared because nothing is left unsaid; the characters stand on stage and utter the unspeakable, give voice to their deepest feelings, dramatize through their heightened and polarized words and gestures the whole lesson of their relationship. They assume primary psychic roles, father, mother, child, and express basic psychic conditions.
Página 119 - Only make the reader's general vision of evil intense enough, I said to myself— and that already is a charming job— and his own experience, his own imagination, his own sympathy (with the children) and horror (of their false friends) will supply him quite sufficiently with all the particulars.
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Página 178 - It wasn't, in a word, simply that their eyes had met; other conscious organs, faculties, feelers had met as well, and when Kate afterwards imaged to herself the sharp deep fact she saw it, in the oddest way, as a particular performance. She had observed a ladder against a garden-wall and had trusted herself so to climb it as to be able to see over into the probable garden on the other side. On reaching the top she had found herself face to face with a gentleman engaged in a like calculation at the...
Página 59 - Mahagonny pays conscious tribute to the senselessness of the operatic form. The irrationality of opera lies in the fact that rational elements are employed, solid reality is aimed at, but at the same time it is all washed out by the music. A dying man is real. If at the same time he sings we are translated to the sphere of the irrational.
Página 174 - He had never dreamed of anything so fringed and scalloped, so buttoned and corded, drawn everywhere so tight, and curled everywhere so thick. He had never dreamed of so much gilt and glass, so much satin and plush, so much rosewood and marble and malachite. But it was, above all, the solid forms, the wasted finish, the misguided cost, the general attestation of morality and money, a good conscience and a big bal\They revealed it to him by their merciless difference.