Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In this enlightening and entertaining book, one of the most original and sophisticated musicologists writing today turns his attention to music's most dramatic genre. Extending his ongoing project of clarifying music's various roles in Western society, Kramer brings to opera his distinctive and pioneering blend of historical concreteness and theoretical awareness. Opera is legendary for going to extremes, a tendency that has earned it a reputation for unreality. Opera and Modern Culture shows the reverse to be true. Kramer argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy and debasement helped to define a normality that seems the very opposite of the operatic. Exemplified in a series of beloved examples, a certain idea of opera-a fiction of opera-has contributed in key ways to the modern era's characterizations of desire, identity, and social order. Opera and Modern Culture exposes this process at work in operas by Richard Wagner, who put modernity on the agenda in ways no one after him could ignore, and by the young Richard Strauss. The book continues the initiative of much recent writing in treating opera as a multimedia rather than a primarily musical form. From Lohengrin and The Ring of the Niebelung to Salome and Elektra, it traces the rich interplay of operatic visions and voices and their contexts in the birth pangs of modern life.

Opera --- Sex in opera. --- Music --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Sexuality in opera --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Philosophy --- History and criticism --- Wagner, Richard, --- Strauss, Richard, --- 19th century music history. --- 19th century opera music. --- anti anti semitism. --- desire. --- fiction of opera. --- german composer. --- german music history. --- identity. --- lohengrin prelude. --- modernism. --- modernist opera. --- modernity. --- multimedia. --- music dramas. --- music. --- musicology. --- nationalism. --- opera composition. --- opera. --- operatic. --- performance. --- richard strauss. --- richard wagner. --- salome complex. --- sexuality. --- social order. --- supremacism. --- the ring. --- visuality. --- western music. --- western opera. --- western society.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

History of civilization --- Art --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Art, Victorian --- Art, British --- Opera --- Art, Victorian. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Konst --- Antike. --- Künste. --- Rezeption. --- Classical antiquity --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism. --- Viktoriansk --- Influence. --- Waterhouse, John William, --- 1800-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Großbritannien --- Griechenland. --- Römisches Reich. --- Intellectual life --- Culture --- Cultural history --- Großbritannien. --- Civilization, Classical --- Victorian art --- Art, Modern --- Classical influences --- History and criticism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Britain. --- Charles Kingsley. --- Charlotte Bront. --- Christianity. --- Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck. --- Classics. --- Edward Bulwer Lytton. --- France. --- Fred W. Farrar. --- Hellenism. --- Jews. --- John William Waterhouse. --- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. --- Reception Studies. --- Richard Wagner. --- Roman Empire. --- Sappho and Alcaeus. --- Sappho. --- The Last Days of Pompeii. --- The Ring. --- Victorian culture. --- Victorians. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient Rome. --- antiquity. --- art. --- barbarism. --- biography. --- chorus. --- citizenship. --- classicism. --- composition. --- culture. --- dance. --- desire. --- early Christianity. --- female desire. --- fiction. --- historical fiction. --- historicity. --- history. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nineteenth-century studies. --- novels. --- opera. --- paintings. --- performance. --- politics. --- racism. --- reception. --- religion. --- religious controversy. --- self-control. --- self-definition. --- sexual identity. --- sexuality. --- social network. --- theater.