Este texto pretende acercarse a la figura de Moisés tal como se elabora en el relato “La ley” de Thomas Mann (1943), y la ópera “Moisés y Aarón” de Arnold Schönberg (1932). En el caso de Schönberg, la recuperación del legislador judío resulta en un esfuerzo por responder a la crisis de la república de Weimar desde su exilio berlinés. Thomas Mann, p...
D.D.Shostakovich is unarguably one of the most brilliant composers of the twentieth century. Yet, his output in opera is surprisingly scarce, only two completed. This paper looks into his second opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934), from largely two perspectives. First, I will reconstruct the socio-political background against which the opera was ...
I am a practising classical soprano. After more than 20 years of professional singing, I re-trained my voice according to principles of the old Italian school of singing. In this essay, I examine the origins and priciples of bel canto, with special focus on appoggio and chiaroscuro, two key ingredients in the bel cantao tradition. I explore the rel...
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Inbjuden av Gustaf III, den franska teaterdekoratören, konstnären och arkitekten Louis Jean Desprez, i Sverige 1784-1804, förnyade teaterdekorationen på Operan. Genom att analysera Desprez’ teaterdekorationer med inspiration från de abstrakta konstnärerna Mondrian, Malevich och Rothko, utvecklar uppsatsen ett nytt tolkningssystem som tillsammans me...
From the 1680s onwards, Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (1657-1743) revolutionized the art of stage design by experimenting with a so-called “manner of seeing scenes from an angle”. The scena per angolo substituted the traditional, single-point perspective with two distance points and worm’s-eye views that rendered architectures in more monumental fashion...
