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Perhaps no other art form in the Western world has polarized opinion to the same extent as opera. While its devotees can be almost fanatical in their enthusiasm, its detractors will dismiss lyric theatre as an impossible hybrid. Literature and music undermine one another when brought together, they maintain. Their contempt for the genre is more often than not motivated by the supposedly mediocre quality of the librettos or scripts to which the works are set as well as the implausibility of characters singing instead of speaking their emotions. But what if these much maligned scripts provided composers with the raw material necessary to convert stereotypes into exemplary figures and place them in powerfully dramatic situations? What if the unreality of opera opened up gripping vistas onto the reality of human emotions? When Literature Becomes Opera strives to answer these questions by analyzing the artistic process through which literary texts are simplified then transformed into lyric dramas. Using as examples eight outstanding operas inspired by works of French writers (Rigoletto, La traviata, Carmen, Thaïs, La Bohème, Tosca, Pelléas et Mélisande and Dialogues des Carmélites), this study demonstrates that a libretto, like a film script, enters into a partnership with the art it serves: music. When the quality of the partnership is high, all of opera's liabilities that purists take pleasure in deriding become stunning assets.

Operas --- Literary themes, motives.

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Mothers-in-law in literature --- Ballads --- -Folk ballads --- Lyric poetry --- Poetry --- Songs --- Vocal music --- Folk songs --- Literary themes, motives --- Mothers-in-law in literature. --- Literary themes, motives. --- -Literary themes, motives --- Folk ballads

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On 29 February 1836, Les Huguenots, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), with words by Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) and Émile Deschamps (1791-1871), was performed for the first time, at the Paris Opéra. It was to be one of the most successful productions ever staged at the Opéra, with 1,126 performances in Paris over the next hundred years, and, in the process, breaking all box office records. It became Meyerbeer's most popular work, with thousands of stagings throughout the world. L...

Operas --- Opera --- Literary themes, motives. --- Themes, motives, Literary --- Les Huguenots --- Meyerbeer, Giacomo

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"Discusses songs by the troubadours, trouvères, and Guillaume de Machaut, performed live and on the page, in the context of antique, late antique, and medieval thought and poetic practice and in the light of later opera. Topics include cosmology, education, astronomy, breath, beasts, monsters, hybridity, imagination, life, and death"

Songs --- Singing --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Literary themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- Chansons --- Chant

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Nomadisierend, ohne Heimat und Herkunft, verbunden mit der Vorstellung des Ungeordneten, bezeichnet die 'Zigeunerin' zugleich ein poetisches Ideal zahlreicher Autoren des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit klar definierbaren Stereotypen, die häufig mythemischen Charakter haben, werden Zigeunerfiguren in der Literatur, aber auch in Oper und Film, inszeniert und in ihrer Alterität festgeschrieben. Das 19. Jahrhundert ist in besonderer Weise von einem ambivalenten Umgang mit dem als exotisch empfundenen Anderen gekennzeichnet. Die Zigeunerin ist die zugleich ein- wie ausgeschlossene Dritte, eine hybride Figur, die immer neue Bedeutungen generiert und besonders in Umbruchsituationen zu finden ist.

Romanies in literature. --- Operas --- Romanies in motion pictures. --- Romanies in popular culture. --- Literary themes, motives.