My Magister Degree project and is based on a desire of achieving a deep understanding, and consequently gaining an artistic freedom in my portraying, of an operatic role that seems "made for me", and yet feels unavailable due to the nature of the Russian culture and language. Tatiana, in the opera “Eugene Onegin” by Piotr Tchaikovsky, is a great ro...
El artíclo presenta el modelo de evaluación desarrollado en el proyecto europeo TRACTION para evaluar la cocreación de ópera como proceso y como resultado. Presenta una visión general del proyecto y describe las distintas óperas que se han creado así como los resultados principales de una evaluación intermedia. / This article presents the evaluat...
This essay seeks to broaden and diversify discussions of the transpacific itineraries that weave throughout Oceania by exploring artistic transactions among Māori, Pasifika, and Chinese peoples that are routed through Aotearoa New Zealand. I consider how New Zealand-based performance artists move beyond US-dominated categories and priorities to exp...
The essay is a reflection on the possibility of diverse interpretations of both works — The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and the stage work of the same title composed by Benjamin Britten. The text is divided into six parts, the introduction is placed first. The author forms the thesis that depending on external conditions, the experiences of th...
Leon Tolstoy (1828-1910) was one of the key realist writers in Russian history, and portrayed the various aspects that made up the life of the country from different perspectives. In addition to his main themes such as sociability, politics and war conflicts, he also used art as a tool for the expression and contextualization of historical events. ...
Some functions of transtextuality proposed by Gérard Genette, the contrasts between certain cultural types addressed by Iuri Lotman, and the presence of symbolic actions and characterizations of the characters within the animated short film Aria (2001), by Pjotr Sapegin. Specifically, it analyze, on the one hand, the semiotic possibilities of the r...
In my monograph I codify musical characteristics that have defined twentieth-century Black American popular vocal music to illustrate the cross-genre influence this music has on living American opera composers, including Anthony Davis, Terrance Blanchard, and myself. To define these musical characteristics, I analyze compositions and recordings fro...
This chapter explores transmediation between qualified media types. It discusses the adaptation of a literary canonical work, Joe Wright’s 2005 novel-to-film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice a novel that repeatedly has been adapted into new contexts and audiences. The qualified medium of opera implies certain conventions but al...
Ignacio de Luzán wrote the most influential Spanish poetics of the 18th century, at a period when Italian opera occupied an essential place in all the courts of Europe. However, this genre receives marginal treatment in his work. This may be surprising in an author who was not only familiar with the operas performed in Spain during the reigns of Ph...
Published in Musicology Today
Despite the rather pejorative implications that the musical pasticcio has today, it may have been an appreciated art form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The term pasticcio is clearly derived from the culinary pasticcio, which was a highlight at aristocratic banquets in this time. The mixture of tastes and the spectacular presentation ...
