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Abstract: In twelve essays, Contemporary Opera in Flux discusses a series of shifts that, taken together, have radically redefined the production and reception of opera. Focusing on productions involving late twentieth- and twenty-first century scores and libretti, the twelve contributors draw on conversations with members of creative teams and studies of archival material, dipping into a historical record that remains in flux as composers, librettists, directors, and designers revisit existing work and create anew. The contributors to this volume push the boundaries of contemporary opera scholarship by examining works that disrupt operatic conventions; tackle sociopolitical issues such as drug trafficking, racial injustice, and cultural trauma; and advance underrepresented works by female, African-American, Asian, and avant-garde composers around the globe. Contemporary Opera in Flux bridges the gaps between expanding literature on opera, theater, new music, postmodern dramaturgy, and posthuman aesthetics, while also confronting larger questions of identity, representation, and narrative agency that are at the forefront of contemporary music scholarship. This collection of essays engages critically with the past out of a conviction that, amid general public perceptions of opera as anachronistic or elitist, contemporary opera has emerged as an artistic incubator for experimentation.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Susan McClary
• Introduction / Yayoi U. Everett and Nicholas D. Stevens
• 1. Fear of an envoiced planet : speculative arias of the operatic hyperobject / Nicholas David Stevens
• 2. Posthuman voice beyond opera : songful practice of holograms, robots, machines, and vocaloids / Jelena Novak
• 3. Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's The Cave, theater of testimony, and the documentary turn in America opera / Ryan Ebright
• 4. ¡Unicamente la verdad! (Only the truth!) : Camelia la Tejana's many truths / Amy Bauer
• 5. Techniques and dramaturgy of the avatar in George Lewis's Afterword / Alexander K. Rothe
• 6. Dramaturgies of trauma : Chaya Czernowin's Infinite now / Joy H. Calico
• 7. Inter-Asia sensibility : vocality and materiality in Tan Dun's Tea: a mirror of soul / Nancy Yunhwa Rao
• 8. Of sense and sirens : Ana Sokolović's Svadba and Six voix pour sirènes / Colleen Renihan
• 9. Sex, myth, and power : reclaiming the "dark feminine" in Anthony Davis's Lilith / Jane Forner
• 10. Narratives of the self in Thomas Hyde's That man Stephen Ward / Edward Venn
• 11. Narrative agencies in Annie Proulx and Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain / Yayoi Uno Everett
• 12. From subjectivity to biopolitics : the dream in Salvatore Sciarrino's music theater / Mauro Fosco Bertola.

Contributors:

Everett, Yayoi Uno , editor

McClary, Susan , author of foreword

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

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Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Contemporary opera in flux (Ann Arbor [ Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, 2024 — ISBN 9780472076260; LCCN 2024021594)

Subjects:

Opera — 20th century

Opera — 21st century

Opera — Production and direction — History — 20th century

Opera — Production and direction — History — 21st century

Opera — Political aspects — History — 20th century

Opera — Political aspects — History — 21st century

1900-2099

Opera — Production and direction

Opera — Political aspects

Opera

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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text file

Call Numbers:

ML1706 .C668 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780472903580 (ebook other)
0472903586
9780472076260 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780472056262 (paperback) [Invalid]

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Digital Object Identifier: 10.3998/mpub.11925107

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024021595

OCLC Numbers:

1432727889