Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020

Name: Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic USA
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Emilio Sala Graziella Seminara Emanuele Senici(Herausgeber*in)

Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 31. Oktober 2024

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Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 offers nine case studies of the history of Vincenzo Bellini's operas on stage, on screen, and in sound, video and performance art. This investigation begins in 1935, the hundredth anniversary of the composer's death and the year when his first biopic was released, and ends in 2020, when performance artist Marina Abramovic's 'opera project' 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, whose final scene is accompanied by Bellini's famous aria 'Casta Diva,' was premiered.

In Part One, several recent productions of La sonnambula, Norma and I Puritani are discussed from different perspectives, but the common focus is on the possible meanings of these works for contemporary spectators. Part Two, centered on cinema, includes chapters on biopics of Bellini that make extensive use of his music, as well as on the presence of this music in soundtracks of films from the last half century. Part Three turns to other media or mixtures of stage and screen, and focuses on Bellini in sound and video art of the last few decades, on YouTube and its fandom, and on 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.

The volume offers an expansive view of the many ways in which Bellini's operas have been visualized and conceptualized over the past century, and of what they may have meant, and may still mean, for twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture.

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Vincenzo Bellini on Stage and Screen, 1935-2020 shows how musicological lucidity and theatrical imagination can fruitfully go hand in hand. Bellini's three best-known operas, La Sonnambula, Norma and I Puritani, are re-interpreted in light of contemporary aesthetics. This book makes it clear that aesthetic practice can not only open up new paths toward an operatic work, but also take us deep into it, which means that it is capable of transforming it from the inside out. * Sergio Morabito, Opera Director and Head Dramaturg, Vienna State Opera * This innovative new book explores in compelling detail how the figure of Bellini has fared in our age of "remediation." As the editors make clear, their ambition, powerfully realized, is to move beyond the usual confines of "opera reception": to embrace a more fluid and challenging notion of how operatic works from the past might find new meanings in the ever-changing visual environments of the last century. * Roger Parker, Professor of Music, Emeritus, King's College London, UK *

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