Surrounded by scenery: what Disney can teach us about visual immersion in the dramma per musica
La science en procès à l'opéra. Three Tales, de Steve Reich et Beryl Korot
Venetian opera revisited: Alessandro Piazza's 'Teatro' (1702)
Trimming scenic invention: oblique perspective as poetics of discipline
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...
Surrounded by scenery: what Disney can teach us about visual immersion in the 'dramma per musica'
Against established knowledge, which conceives of the Baroque stage as a uniform, neatly mechanized ensemble of wings, borders, and backdrops, multiple drawings and material artifacts suggest that eighteenth-century set designers added various pièces détachées to the standard machinery. Thus, free-standing flats were applied manually (by the stageh...
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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 ...
Iconos de la ley, literaturas del desastre. La figura de Moisés en la obra de Schönberg y Thomas Mann
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...
Opera and madness: Britten's Peter Grimes--a case study.
Published in Medical humanities
In this paper, Britten's opera Peter Grimes (1945) is used as an illustrative case study through which to examine the depiction of psychiatric disorders in opera. It is argued that Peter Grimes is a powerful example of how opera, in the hands of a great composer, can become an invaluable tool for examining subjective human experience. After a brief...
El poema sacro Melo-dramático de Buono Chiodi (Santiago de Compostela, 1773)
Varios autores aluden en sus estudios a la existencia de una “ópera” compuesta por el maestro de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela Buono Chiodi, para el Año Santo de 1773. Hasta la actualidad no ha sido posible hallar ningún rastro de la música de tal obra, por lo que no podemos pronunciarnos sobre la calidad de la misma. Pese a todo, es de sum...
Factores condicionantes en la transposición literatura-música
Cuando se parte de una obra literaria para crear una obra musical se puede hablar de un proceso de transposición. Este trabajo pretende reflexionar sobre algunos de los factores que determinan este tipo de procesos y que definen la naturaleza semiótica del resultado. Por un lado, se tiene en cuenta los condicionantes extradiscursivos y, desde una p...
