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The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni

Autor: Magnus Tessing Schneider

Número de Páginas: 239

The Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as...

Giovannis rum

Autor: James Baldwin

Número de Páginas: 158

En av 1900-talets mest inflytelserika romaner »En av vår tids få riktiga författare.« Norman Mailer Den unge amerikanen David friar till sin flickvän Helle, men hon är tveksam och lämnar honom i Paris för att i stället resa till Spanien och fundera över deras förhållande. Ensam, utan jobb och pengar, hamnar David på en bar där han träffar den vackra servitören Giovanni. Kvällen slutar med att David följer med Giovanni hem, och de två männen inleder en passionerad kärleksaffär. Paret tillbringar sina dagar vandrande genom Paris, nätterna i Giovannis nedgångna lägenhet. Det är första gången på länge David känner sig lycklig, men trots det vill han inte erkänna sin egen läggning och de begär han upplever. När Helle återvänder väljer han därför henne framför kärleken till Giovanni. Samtidigt tar Giovannis liv en dramatisk vändning. Giovannis rum [1956], James Baldwins andra roman, är en milstolpe inom queerlitteraturen och finns med på BBC:s lista över 100 romaner som format vår värld. I översättning av Martin Rogberg, med ett nyskrivet förord av Kristofer Folkhammar. JAMES BALDWIN [1924-1987] var en amerikansk författare och...

Giovannis værelse

Autor: James Baldwin

Número de Páginas: 176

Amerikaneren David driver rundt i Paris, da han en aften møder den italienske bartender Giovanni. David er netop blevet forlovet med den eventyrlystne Hella, men tiltrækningen til Giovanni er for stærk, og Hella er i Spanien. Snart flytter han ind på Giovannis værelse, men da Hella vender tilbage til Paris tre måneder senere, må han vælge mellem de to. Davids valg får tragiske konsekvenser. ”Giovannis værelse” er en kærlighedshistorie om identitet og begær i 1950’ernes Paris. Udkommer i SKALA-serien i Pia Juuls oversættelse. James Baldwin (1924-1987) var en amerikansk forfatter og borgerrettighedsaktivist. Han skrev indgående om den afroamerikanske oplevelse i USA og skabte furore ved at skrive om kærlighed mellem to hvide mænd i ”Giovannis værelse”. ”Voldsom og ulidelig smuk.” - San Francisco Chronicle ”En af de få forfattere af vores tid.” - Norman Mailer

Literature and Homosexuality

Autor: Michael J. Meyer

Número de Páginas: 290

Contains 13 essays, mostly written by American university-based professors of English, Hispanic language and literature, and women's studies, focusing on a variety of themes relating to lesbian and gay literature and the work of gay and lesbian authors. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

James Baldwin

Autor: Harold Bloom

Número de Páginas: 235

A collection of essays presenting critiques and analysis of the major works of the African American author.

Great American Writers

Autor: Robert Baird Shuman

Número de Páginas: 148

Highlights the lives and works of more than ninety American and Canadian writers of fiction, drama, nonfiction, poetry and song lyrics.

The Politics of Exile

Autor: Bryan R. Washington

Número de Páginas: 196

In The Politics of Exile, Bryan R. Washington connects contemporary critical theory to issues of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and sexual repression in their works, including Daisy Miller, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Giovanni's Room, and Another Country.

Don Giovanni

Autor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Número de Páginas: 506

Don Giovanni is presented here in the C. F. Peters edition and contains the original version, along with later arias, recitatives, and duets added for the Vienna performance. Text in both Italian and German.

Rush to Gold

Autor: Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Número de Páginas: 289

DIVThe California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it’s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He examines the California Gold Rush through the eyes of 30,000 French participants. In so doing, he offers a completely original analysis of an important—but previously neglected—chapter in the history of the Gold Rush, which occurred at a time of sweeping changes in France./divDIV/divDIVRohrbough is the author of Days of Gold, which is generally accepted as the essential text on the subject. This new book comes out of his extended research in French archives. He is the first to provide an international focus to these pivotal events in mid-nineteenth-century America. The Rush to Gold is an important contribution to the fast-growing field of transnational American history./div

Ausgewählte Novellen Sacchettis, Ser Giovannis und Sercambis

Autor: Franco Sacchetti , Giovanni (fiorentino) , Giovanni Sercambi

Número de Páginas: 228

Rape at the Opera

Autor: Margaret Cormier

Número de Páginas: 211

The most-performed operas today were written at least a hundred years ago and carry some outdated and deeply problematic ideas. When performed uncritically, the misogyny, racism, and other ideologies present in many of these works clash with modern sensibilities. In Rape at the Opera, Margaret Cormier argues that production and performance are vital elements of opera, and that contemporary opera practitioners not only interpret but create operatic works when they put them onstage. Where some directors explicitly respond to contemporary dialogues about sexual violence, others utilize sexual violence as a surefire way to titillate, to shock, and to generate press for a new production. Drawing on archival footage as well as attendance at live events, Cormier analyzes productions of canonic operas from German, Italian, and French traditions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, including Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Don Giovanni, La forza del destino, Un ballo in maschera, Salome, and Turandot. In doing so, Cormier highlights the dynamism of twenty-first-century opera performance practice with regard to sexual violence, establishes methods to evaluate representations...

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 112

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Todos los relatos

Autor: Italo Svevo

Número de Páginas: 612

Los cuentos completos de uno de los narradores más importantes del siglo XX. Este volumen comprende la totalidad de los relatos que escribió Italo Svevo, uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX. Son un reflejo de su gran literatura, de su capacidad introspectiva, y de los temas que recorren su obra: el peso de la moral sobre el individuo, el amor, la vejez, el sentimiento de culpa, el paso del tiempo, la muerte, el mundo laboral, la crítica a la burguesía? Svevo se muestra como un experto indagador en los entresijos del alma, con una capacidad asombrosa para reflejar el lado más oscuro del ser humano. Reseña: «La compilación de toda su narrativa breve, gracias a la devoción del traductor Carlos Manzano, supone el mejor ofrecimiento para adentrarse en el universo disgregado de Svevo». Francisco Solano, Babelia, El País

In Defense of Don Giovanni

Autor: Luisa Passerini

Número de Páginas: 301

Who wants to champion the figure of Don Giovanni in the time of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo? Don Giovanni is a rapist, murderer, serial seducer, and a liar. Can he ever be held up as a role model or seen as a figure to be enjoyed? This is the task that the eminent Italian historian and lifelong feminist, Luisa Passerini, sets for herself in In Defense of Don Giovanni. As she developed the long arc of her distinguished career, Don Giovanni surprisingly became not only her role model but also a secret object of research.Taking her method from oral history, Passerini creates a series of characters with whom she discusses the forms and incarnations of the myth of Don Giovanni across time, from its first appearance in early medieval Spain and Commedia dell'Arte to its many European variations and its transposition to the colonial and postcolonial world in the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa. Pivoting round Don Giovanni's best known incarnation in Mozart's opera, Passerini and he interlocutors meet in different locations from Venice and Bern to Paris and Turin. They discuss plays, films, and operas and talk about art, novels, and psychoanalytic interpretations of the myth while...

Don Giovanni Captured

Autor: Richard Will

Número de Páginas: 315

“Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps ...

A History of the African American Novel

Autor: Valerie Babb

Número de Páginas: 499

A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valerie Babb examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along with the art form. The second part of this History explores the prominent genres of African American novels, such as neoslave narratives, detective fiction, and speculative fiction, and considers how each one reflects changing understandings of blackness. This book builds on other literary histories by including early black print culture, African American graphic novels, pulp fiction, and the history of adaptation of black novels to film. By placing novels in conversation with other documents - early black newspapers and magazines, film, and authorial correspondence - A History of the African American Novel brings many voices to the table to broaden interpretations of the novel's development.

Ausgewählte novellen Sacchettis,Ser Giovannis und Sercambis

Autor: Jakob Ulrich

Número de Páginas: 226

Giovanni Paura

Autor: Vera Studier

Número de Páginas: 466

From Harlem to Paris

Autor: Michel Fabre

Número de Páginas: 388

This academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers--Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.--to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than in America. Fabre (The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright) shows that French/black American affinity started in pre-Civil War New Orleans (and not, as the title suggests, in Harlem), when illegitimate mulattos with inheritances from French slave-owners sent their children to Paris to be educated. The book concludes that acceptance and appreciation of black Americans were based largely of French distaste both for white Americans, whom the French found egotistical, and for black Africans, with whom the French had a bitter "mutual colonial history."

Translation Studies

Autor: Mary Snell-hornby , Franz Pöchhacker , Klaus Kaindl

Número de Páginas: 455

A selection of 44 papers out of the 163 presented at the Translation Studies Congress, which was held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institut für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer Ausbildung in Vienna, shows how translation studies is moving away from purely linguistic analysis into LSP, psychology, cognition, and cultural orientations. The volume is divided into sections reflecting the focal subject areas at the Congress: Translation, history and culture; Interpreting theory and training; Terminology and special languages; Teaching and training in translation. Also included are papers from a special workshop including interdisciplinary research projects from Vienna. Of the articles, 25 are written in English, 16 in German, and 3 in French.

Translation Studies: An Interdiscipline

Autor: Mary Snell-hornby , Franz Pöchhacker , Klaus Kaindl

Número de Páginas: 456

A selection of 44 papers out of the 163 presented at the Translation Studies Congress, which was held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institut für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer Ausbildung in Vienna, shows how translation studies is moving away from purely linguistic analysis into LSP, psychology, cognition, and cultural orientations. The volume is divided into sections reflecting the focal subject areas at the Congress: Translation, history and culture; Interpreting theory and training; Terminology and special languages; Teaching and training in translation. Also included are papers from a special workshop including interdisciplinary research projects from Vienna. Of the articles, 25 are written in English, 16 in German, and 3 in French.

Freshwater and Marine Aquarium

Número de Páginas: 386

Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing

Autor: Flavio Soares Correa Da Silva , Jaume Agusti-cullell

Número de Páginas: 294

Except from the ForewordThe stated aim of the book series "Capturing Intelligence" is to publish books on research from all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems. Of course, much of the work done in the past decades in this area has been of a highly technical nature, varying from hardware design for robots, software design for intelligent agents, and formal logic for reasoning.It is therefore very refreshing to see Information Flow and Knowledge Sharing. This is a courageous book indeed. It is not afraid to tackle the Big Issues: notions such as information, knowledge, information system, information flow, collaborative problem solving, and ontological reasoning. All of these notions are crucial to our understanding of intelligence and our building of intelligent artificial systems, but all too often, these Big Issues are hidden behind the curtains while the technical topics take center stage. AI has a rich history of philosophical books that have chosen a non-standard structure and narrative. It is nice to see that the authors have succeeded into combining a non-standard approach to deep questions with a...

Angelus Pacis

Autor: Blake R. Beattie

Número de Páginas: 276

This volume examines a largely overlooked Avignonese legation to Tuscany and the Papal States, and assesses its impact on Avignonese papal policy in Italy.

Ebony

Número de Páginas: 148

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Giovanni

Autor: Sibylle May

Número de Páginas: 160

"Giovanni- Der Geruch des Meeres und der Duft von Heu" berichtet am Beispiel eines Bauern in Ligurien vom Niedergang einer ländlichen Kultur- und erzählt von einer ungewöhnlichen Liebe: Rosa, die Frau in Giovannis Leben ist siebenundzwanzig Jahre älter als er. Was das in einem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen bedeutet, wo nichts den neugierigen Blicken der lieben Nachbaren verborgen bleibt, erfährt man in diesem Buch. Giovanni selbst hat sich nicht beirren lassen: "Wenn die Leute nicht mehr über mich reden, bin ich tot!"

Die Geschichte Don Giovannis

Autor: Friedrich Dieckmann

Número de Páginas: 560

Mozart Studies

Autor: Simon P. Keefe

Número de Páginas: 243

This volume comprises a series of essays on the life and works of Mozart.

The Signifier and the Signified

Autor: F. Noske

Número de Páginas: 428

The studies collected in this volume deal with the interpretation of opera. In most cases the results are based on structural analysis, a concept which may require some clarification in this context. During the past de cade 'structure' and 'structural' have become particularly fashionable terms lacking exact denotation and used for the most divergent purposes. As employed here, structural analysis is concerned with such concepts as 'relationship', 'coherence' and 'continuity', more or less in contrast to formal analysis which deals with measurable material. In other words, I have analysed the structure of an opera by seeking and examining factors in the musico-dramatic process, whereas analysts of form are generally preoccupied with the study of elements contained in the musical object. Though admittedly artificial, the dichotomy of form and structure may elucidate the present situation with regard to the study of opera. Today, nearly one hundred years after the death of Wagner, the proclaimed anti thesis of Oper und Drama is generally taken for what it really was: a means to propagate the philosophy of its inventor. The conception of opera (whether 'continuous' or composed of...

Die Wende Von Der Aufklärung Zur Romantik 1760-1820

Autor: Horst Albert Glaser , György Mihály Vajda

Número de Páginas: 784

This volume is the twelfth to date in a series of works in French or English presenting the epochs and movements of a Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (Histoire Comparée des Littératures de Langues Européennes). The original intention of the editors was to publish a four-volume history of European literature from 1760-1820, and the first of these volumes, Des Lumières au Romantisme. Genres en Vers, appeared as long ago as 1982. The volumes Genres en Prose and Théâtre are still awaited. In their absence the present volume, Epoche im _berblick, attempts a more comprehensive and rigorous treatment of the period and its historiographical problems than was initially planned, providing the reader with an overview of sixty eventful years of European literary history — years in which German Classicism coincided with the birth, initially in Germany and England, of Romanticism. And at the centre of this turbulent period of European intellectual and literary history stands the French Revolution.

Ebony

Número de Páginas: 148

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Exempla docent

Autor: Thomas Ricklin

Número de Páginas: 436

Concue comme histoire des etats de la raison, l'histoire de la philosophie se presente generalement comme une suite feconde de reponses a un questionnaire variant, dans le meilleur de cas, selon les temps et les lieux. Pourtant, au long des siecles, la philosophie ne s'epanouit pas seulement dans le travail mental des ses adeptes. Elle est accompagnee, des son debut, par des actes et des gestes qui, loin de lui etre accessoires, contribuent fondamentalement a la legitimation de son questionnaire inoui et deroutant. Sans la figure de Socrate et de ses quelques rares pairs, il n'y a pas de philosophie. La philosophie doit son existence autant a son questionnaire qu'a ces quelques personnages, dont les gestes fondateurs reapparaissent sous forme d'exemples plus ou moins codifies et revalorises selon les circonstances a travers les cultures et les siecles. La philosophie grecque tardive nous en a legue le monument exceptionnel dans l'oeuvre de Diogene Laerce. Les Arabes y ont aussi puise, tandis que la culture juive medievale les evite, pour se concentrer davantage sur ses propres figures de sage. Le Moyen Age latin se distingue a son tour par une veritable culture de l'exemple...

Contemporary Black Biography

Autor: L. Mpho Mabunda

Número de Páginas: 344

This biographical reference covers prominent black individuals from around the world. Illustrated entries provide not only biographical details, but also list writings and sources for further reading. Profiles include: civil rights activists, such as Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson; political, legal and government figures, such as Mobute Sese Seko, Colin Powell, Maxine Walters and L. Douglas Wilder; individuals in the worlds of science, technology and medicine, such as Benjamin Carson, Helene D. Gayle, Garrett Morgan and Daniel Hale;and authors, entertainers and other notable professionals. The text contains 70 full-length biographies, divided into the following sections: portrait; date and place of birth; family names; education; address; career data; meemberships; awards received; and books written.

Mozart-Jahrbuch

Número de Páginas: 324

The Rough Guide to Opera

Autor: Matthew Boyden , Nick Kimberley

Número de Páginas: 756

Sketches of opera composers, opera synopses, and CD reviews.

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 112

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Künstler-Bilder

Número de Páginas: 217

Bereits in der Antike entwickelte sich eine Metakunst, die die Kunst und das Künstlertum selber zum Objekt von Kunstäusserungen machte. In der Zeit der Postmoderne ist die Thematisierung realer Kunst und realer Künstlergestalten in der Kunst nicht mehr wegzudenken. Künstler-Bilder vereint zehn Aufsätze, die sich mit literarischen Werken befassen, in denen der Autor sich historischen Künstlergestalten zuwendet, um sich so in ihnen zu spiegeln. Objekt der Darstellung sind Musiker, bildende Künstler und, vor allem, Dichter. Zeitlich reicht das Spektrum von Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz’ Umgang mit Goethe als verehrtem Vorbild im 18. bis zu Hanns-Josef Ortheils eigenwilliger Sicht aus dem späten 20. Jahrhunderts auf die römischen Abenteuer Goethes. Ihm treten Mörike und Mozart, Stefan Zweig und Balzac, Hodler und Pedretti, Bernhard und Freumbichler, Härtling und Hölderlin, Kühn und Schumann sowie Grass und Fontane, um nur einige zu nennen, an die Seite. Nur selten ist die historische Künstlergestalt Gegenstand der Verehrung oder der Idealisierung. Vereinnahmung, Vergegenwärtigung, Problematisierung oder gar Ironisierung waren und sind in der Auseinandersetzung mit ihr...

The Body in Early Modern Italy

Autor: Julia L. Hairston , Walter Stephens

Número de Páginas: 448

Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout history attracted more attention than perhaps any other element of human experience. The essays in this volume explore the manifestations of the body in Italian society from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Adopting a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, these fresh and thought-provoking essays offer original perspectives on corporeality as understood in the early modern literature, art, architecture, science, and politics of Italy. An impressively diverse group of contributors comment on a broad range and variety of conceptualizations of the body, creating a rich dialogue among scholars of early modern Italy. Contributors: Albert R. Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley; Douglas Biow, The University of Texas at Austin; Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz; Anthony Colantuono, University of Maryland, College Park; Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University; Sergius Kodera, New Design University, St. Pölten, Austria; Jeanette Kohl,...

The Don Giovanni Moment

Autor: Lydia Goehr , Daniel Alan Herwitz

Número de Páginas: 265

'The Don Giovanni Movement' examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.

Don Giovanni

Autor: Kurt Pahlen

Número de Páginas: 449

Mozarts "Don Giovanni", seit der Prager Uraufführung 1787 eine der meistgespielten und -geliebten Opern, liegt die altbekannte, uralte Figur des "Frauenverführers" zu Grunde. Der Charakter des triebhaften Don Juan ist zu allen Zeiten Stoff von Untersuchungen und Diskussionen gewesen. Die Identifikation des Publikums mit der Bühnengestalt macht deren Erfolg aus. Dass diese Oper über dies hinaus bei allen Aufführungen Erfolg hat, ist der Verbindung von anspruchsvollem Libretto (Da Ponte) mit der unverwechselbaren Musik Mozarts zu verdanken. Dieses Buch enthält neben dem Textbuch einführende Kommentare von Kurt Pahlen. Er begleitet das musikalische und das äußere wie innere dramatische Geschehen der Oper mit Hinweisen zu kompositorischer Struktur und Sinnzusammenhang. Eine kurze Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der Entstehungsgeschichte stellen das Werk in einen Zusammenhang mit dem Gesamtschaffen des Komponisten und seiner Biographie und bieten eine umfassende, reich illustrierte Einführung.