Unsettling Opera

Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

By: David J. Levin

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J. Levin here argues that the genre of opera is itself unsettled, and that the performance of operas, at its best, clarifies this condition by bringing opera's restlessness and volatility to life.
"Unsettling Opera "explores a variety of fields, considering questions of operatic textuality, dramaturgical practice, and performance theory. Levin opens with a brief history of opera production, opera studies, and dramatic composition, and goes on to consider in detail various productions of the works of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, and Alexander Zemlinsky. Ultimately, the book seeks to initiate a dialogue between scholars of music, literature, and performance by addressing questions raised in each field in a manner that influences them all.

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"Levin is one of the few scholars who functions effectively as both a literary critic in the university and a practical dramaturg in the opera house. His fascinating book demonstrates how critical readings of music and text can generate stagings that challenge and compel.... An indispensable guide." - Philip Gossett "Intelligent and lucidly written, Unsettling Opera opens up new and exciting vistas for thinking and writing about opera.... A book that is sure to become required reading for all those interested in the study - and performance - of opera." - German Studies Review"

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Dramaturgy and Mise-en-Scène
Reading a Staging/Staging a Reading: Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Performance
Fidelity in Translation: Mozart and Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro
Deconstructing Singspiel: Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Between Sublimation and Audacity: Verdi's Don Carlos
Beyond the Canon: Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules
Appendix: Plot Summaries
Index
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