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Shutko, Serhii. "Contemporary Music Directing — Innovation or Adventure?" Часопис Національної музичної академії України ім.П.І.Чайковського, no. 3-4(52-53) (December 14, 2021): 203–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.31318/2414-052x.3-4(52-53).2021.251822.

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The author considered the problem of the artistic integrity of the opera in terms of finding ways to renew the musical theater of Ukraine, caused by socio-cultural challenges of today. The article clarifies the fragmentary nature of scientific research on the issue with the priority of musicological aspect and insufficient research of theatrical aspects, which requires a new comprehensive understanding of the director's concept in musical theater.The problem of artistic integrity of opera performance in the conditions of search ways to update the musical theater of Ukraine caused by sociocultural challenges of the present is considered. The article clarifies the fragmentary nature of scientific investigations of the problem with the priority of musicology and insufficient research of theatrical aspects, which requires a new comprehensive understanding of the director's concept in musical theater. The methodology of research key moments of the chosen subject is outlined: modern directorial approaches to creation of artistic integrity of opera performance — structural and functional; the concept of training musical theater directors in the realities of today — systems analysis; vectors of renewal of directorial approaches to the interpretation of works — semiotic. The purpose of the research is formulated — to determine the director's concept of creating the artistic integrity of opera performance in the context of updated synthesis of means of expression of different arts, based on harmonious artistic and research training. The main components of directorial content in solving art work in accordance with the modern possibilities proposed by the theater stage are analyzed. Director's approaches, techniques, means of expression aimed at an organic combination of different arts and achievements of science to find a new synthesis in the embodiment of opera performances are revealed. It is proved that in modern researches of the artistic integrity of the opera performance the mainly musicological aspect is revealed. The analysis of directorial incarnations of operas reflects the achievements of scientific thought at the end of the last century and needs to be reconsidered from the standpoint of the present. The study of directorial interpretations of opera performances in Ukraine makes it possible to state the existence of problems both at the stage of conception and during its implementation, which is due to aesthetic approaches of the end of the last century. The importance of universal training of a musical theater director, able to combine all the components of artistic synthesis into a complete performance with the help of a production team and creative staff, is revealed. Renewal of directorial approaches in the interpretation of operas involves the use of original techniques with the synthesis of traditional and innovative means of expression. The scientific novelty of the research is to establish causal links between integrative artistic and research, research training of the specialist and his ability to produce the latest original ideas in the context of staging. Prospects for further scientific explorations of key aspects of the typology of modern opera directing in the socio-cultural realities of today are predicted.
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Kuzmina, O. A. "Opera for children-performers in the work of contemporary choir conductors." Problems of Interaction Between Arts, Pedagogy and the Theory and Practice of Education 56, no. 56 (July 10, 2020): 281–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum1-56.18.

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Background. Operas for children-performers emerged almost two centuries ago. The first authors who began creative experiments in this field were amateur composers. In the second half of the 19th century opera for childrenperformers attracted the attention of music teachers who by education were often choir conductors. These authors created their works considering capabilities and needs of their students. The 20th century operas intended for children performance mainly were composed by professional composers, whose works have finally crystallized and sustained characteristic features of this genre. In the 21st century, professional composers are turning to the opera genre for children-performers as actively as their predecessors. At the same time, this area again attracts the attention of authors who are practitioners in choir conducting and are not composers by education but work closely with children groups and write operas based on practical experience with such choirs. The objective of this study is to introduce little-known operas by Ye. Karpenko and P. Stetsenko (both are choir conductors) for children-performers into the scientific discourse and to define their genre features. The methodological ground of the article is a complex approach that involves the following analytical methods: systemic, structural, comparative, historical. Research results. In 2006, Yevhen Karpenko created the opera “Sribna Divchynka” (“Silver Girl”; the libretto by Serhiy Diachenko after the fairy tale by Tamara Khvostenko). The work has the author’s genre designation “opera-fairy tale for children”, which specifies both, the target audience and the team of performers. There are four characters that have solo sayings. The opera features a personalized choir divided into groups, and the mimic character. The composition consists of two acts divided into completed separated numbers (8 in the first act and 7 in the second one). Between them are spoken scenes of varying length, which in this context perform a function similar to recitative in the traditional operatic model. The main form of solo, ensemble and choral expression in “Sribna Divchynka” is a song. The vocal parts do not fall outside of children voices diapason, except for the solo of Zirnytsa (the adult personage, the mother of Silver Girl) and completely correspond to their possibilities. The melody in the solo and in the ensemble-choral numbers is performed in unison allowing to absorb the material of the opera faster even for children without prior musical preparation. The piano part at “Silver Girl” is multi-functional; its level of complexity makes it possible to involve as accompanists even middle and high school students in music schools or studios. Yevhen Karpenko created the opera for children-performers, which organically combines established genre traits with modern genre and style techniques. “Sribna Divchynka” is the work of universal nature, because it can be performed by children without prior musical training, as well as by those who already have some musical and stage experience. “The Three Hermits” (2016; libretto by Tandy Martin based on the story by L. Tolstoy) by Paul Stetsenko reflects contemporary processes in the field of opera with moral and ethical coloring for children-performers. The author attributes the work to the genre of church opera. That affects both the nature of the drama collisions and the location of the action. The central part of the work retains all the main characters of the story. In Prologue, P. Stetsenko added the new personages: Teacher and the Children. The composer does not prescribe the timbre specialization of the protagonists giving freedom to choose within the available voices. The opera consists of six scenes, framed by Prologue and Finale (Stetsenko chooses a scene as a compositional and dramaturgical unit). The scenes are separated from each other in key and completed musically. Representing the heroes of the opera, the composer gravitates more to the dialogic scenes, where the plot develops, than to the solo statements. In “The Three Hermits”, the choir plays an important role. It is personified and participates in the action representing the Children in the Prologue, the Pilgrim in the main part and the Finale, and also functions as a commentator. The opera contains three leitmotifs: “motive of prayer”, “theme of the Bishop”, “motive of the waters”. The composition of the work has an arched construction that connects two spaces of action – the “real” one and the “parable” one. Stetsenko’s “The Three Hermits” proves that with the simplicity of the typological features of the opera genre for children-performers (relatively small length, piano accompaniment, the range of vocal parts that corresponds to the age of the performers) it is capable of embodying deep ideas, wisdom of a parable, stable characters, to involve children to the spiritual and religious experience of the past and eternal moral truths. Conclusions. Thanks to the practical experience of Ye. Karpenko and P. Stetsenko, their collaboration with real children’s groups (in particular, the Children Music Theater “Dzvinochok” in Sumy, Ukraine, and the choir of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Alexandria, Virginia, USA) operas created by them meet the capabilities and needs of young performers: parts have the appropriate for children’s voice range; the tunes are simple and easy to remember; the action develops dynamically, there are no stretched conversation scenes; there are a sufficient number of actors; the duration of the works is approximately 30–35 minutes. Thus, these two operas for children-performers are a clear result of the fruitful collaboration between children’s groups and choir conductors who have the composer vocation.
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Ciobanu, Liliana. "POSTMODERNIST PRACTICES IN CONTEMPORARY OPERA." Studiul artelor şi culturologie: istorie, teorie, practică, no. 1(42) (September 2022): 158–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.55383/amtap.2022.1.29.

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Opera, an important link of contemporary culture, has a considerable influence on the individual and society, directing and enriching the cognitive, affective and attitudinal universe of the audience. Postmodernist ideology projects opera into a crisis, stimulating the development of controversial artistic forms. But, at the same time, the information environment gives Opera the possibility of transiting the closed spaces of the halls, propagating and broadcasting the lyrical performances in front of an impressive audience. The social and cultural-artistic context of the last decades has favored the rise of postmodern directorial opera, which invented multiple methods of interpretation, becoming a real challenge for many reviewers, but especially for the conservative opera audience. Without having negative connotations at its beginnings, the New postmodernist concept Regietheater/Regieoper surmounted the stage interpretations with aesthetic character of classical works, reaching today a maximum level of speculative excesses, radically distanced from the original content.
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Bo, Fang. "Listen to ‘Mila’, Listen to the Hong Kong's Social Soundscape on the Contemporary Opera Stage (Review)." ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 10 (December 7, 2022): 89–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/aemr.10-11.

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The creation and performance of contemporary opera in the 21st century reflect the main ideas of contemporary humanistic trend of thought. Contemporary opera is increasingly deepening in international cooperation, cross- cultural artistic expression, global exploration of local social issues, and artists' social participation. Today is a new humanistic era for contemporary opera and other art forms. The artistic and humanistic languages of different nationalities and cultures communicate and dialogue on more diverse artistic platforms. Therefore, the creation of realistic opera which reflects the diversity of Chinese humanistic values and the real development of Chinese society is particularly important today. The creation and performance of contemporary opera in Hong Kong is also a representative of the development of Chinese opera with remarkable regional characteristics. Taking ‘Mila’’, an opera commissioned by the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, as an example, this article analyzes the realistic librettural themes, the music composition of contemporary scenes, and the dramatic presentation of life materials in the work, so as to discover Hong Kong's social sound landscape on the contemporary opera stage.
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Everist, Mark. "Meyerbeer'sIl crociato in Egitto: mélodrame, opera, orientalism." Cambridge Opera Journal 8, no. 3 (November 1996): 215–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586700004730.

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Il crociato in Egittowas the last in a series of Italian operas written by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1817 and 1824. Although hisEmma di ResburgoandMargherita d'Anjouhad been successful in Venice and Milan, it wasIl crociatothat put Meyerbeer in the first rank of internationally renowned composers of Italian opera. The work's contemporary popularity makes it an important element in the history of early nineteenth-century Italian opera, and the abundant source material that survives for the opera permits a reconstruction of its early history. Furthermore, the publication in facsimile of a copyist's score from the première at La Fenice and the recording of the work by Opera Rara have encouraged a modern revaluation.
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Adetu, Edith Georgiana. "Verdian lyric theatre. Hermeneutics of the performance and contemporary challenges." Artes. Journal of Musicology 23, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 196–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajm-2021-0011.

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Abstract Engaging the viewer in a dialogue with the opera of Giuseppe Verdi is an approach that involves him spiritually, culturally, morally. You can enter this universe of opera music through several gates. The wide path of science will walk through the portal of stylistics, aesthetics, philosophy or art history. On another road comes the profane, motivated by the love for the beautiful. The opera Nabucco was the first step in the evolution of Italian lyrical theatre – from melodrama to realistic drama – characterised by the unity and strength of artistic conception, the energy and simplicity of musical language. Verdi’s dramatic sense and affinity for realism propelled him over time into the role of composer- playwright, his name being closely linked to titles such as: Ernani, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Othello, Falstaff. However, we can note in recent decades the lack or low presence of important titles among Verdian operas in the repertoire of lyrical theatres. Can the contemporary public still receive this composer’s authentic message? Can current performers wear the clothes of truthful characters and meet the composer’s requirements for the vocal approach? The mission of hermeneutics – this interdisciplinary science – is to discover, as far as possible, the mechanisms of the interpretation of a social phenomenon (as the opera of Giuseppe Verdi has been repeatedly perceived), and its reminiscences in contemporary society.
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Young, Toby. "Triptych, Opera Erratica; The Print Room, London." Tempo 68, no. 270 (September 4, 2014): 79–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298214000412.

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There was a pleasantly informal atmosphere at The Print Room during the premiere run of Opera Erratica's new Triptych this May. Comprising three short operas for voices and electronics, Triptych presented a new interpretation of contemporary chamber opera, incorporating elements of multimedia – including live video and photographic projections – alongside elements of more traditional art forms, such as a strikingly cartoonish set by the Young British Artist Gavin Turk.
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WILSON, ALEXANDRA. "Killing time: Contemporary representations of opera in British culture." Cambridge Opera Journal 19, no. 3 (October 17, 2007): 249–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954586707002364.

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ABSTRACTRecent debates about ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture and the perceived repositioning of such categories have had potentially profound implications for opera. British artist Sam Taylor-Wood’s video installation Killing Time (1994) provides a useful starting point from which to explore these polemics. By juxtaposing images of mundane daily life with a soundtrack drawn from Strauss’s Elektra, Taylor-Wood seems to present opera and ‘the everyday’ as irreconcilable. Yet, the perception of opera as highbrow has by no means been a historical constant in Britain. This article considers the extent to which opera may be regaining the ‘entertainment status’ it enjoyed for a period during the late nineteenth century, or whether its perception as an ‘elite’ product is more deeply ingrained in British culture than ever before. Killing Time’s critique of opera and the commentary it offers on voice, art as redemption, and the politics of participatory art are analysed and contrasted with the representation of opera in a more ‘popular’ medium, a reality television series in which members of the public were trained as opera singers. The article concludes that, while popular culture seems able to embrace opera, the more uneasy relationship today is that between opera and other forms of ‘high art’.
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CROSS, JONATHAN. "Musical Spectra,l'espace sensibleand Contemporary Opera." Twentieth-Century Music 15, no. 1 (February 2018): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572218000087.

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AbstractThe appearance of thecorps sonoreat a key dramatic moment in Rameau'sPygmalion(1748) opens up anespace sensible(a term borrowed from Michel Leiris) where sounds derived from the harmonic series can articulate transformed temporal and spatial environments. Thecorps sonore– rediscovered and repurposed by the spectral movement of the 1970s – reappears in a number of twenty-first-century operas in order to animate a late-modern sense of theespace sensible. Instead of crossing a threshold towards the transcendent, the seemingly immobilecorps sonorecan now represent a modernist sense of loss, death, exile, ruin, and failure. Michaël Levinas's 2010 operatic reinterpretation of Kafka'sMetamorphosisstands as an exemplar of the ways in which the spectrum of sound (here the voice of the ‘becoming-animal’ Gregor Samsa metamorphosed by electronic means) can create a ‘deterritorialized’ space of alienation. Liminal, spectral spaces in works by Dufourt, Grisey, Haas, Harvey, Murail, and Saariaho are also discussed.
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KONSON, GRIGORIY R., and IRINA A. KONSON. "HANDEL’S OPERAS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY DIRECTING: ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FILM COMPOSITION PRINCIPLES IN OPERA PERFORMANCES." ART AND SCIENCE OF TELEVISION 16, no. 2 (2020): 101–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2020-16.2-101-125.

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The article was inspired by the authors’ reviews of modern productions of Handel’s Baroque operas in 2019, presented in the three German cities: Halle, Bad Lauchstädt and Bernburg. Halle, where Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) was born, is also a venue of the annual International Handel Festival, dedicated to the works of the great Saxon and his contemporaries. The concept of the festival in 2019, Sensitive, heroic, sublime: Handel’s women, was devoted to studying the female images embodied in his operas. In considering the scientific and artistic concept, the authors concluded that the directors’ understanding of these operas has expanded through the integration into musical drama of the compositional principles of film editing and the expressive means of modern, primarily screen arts. To study this phenomenon, we turned to the scientific tools developed in Russia by the two Soviet researchers who have become seminal in their field. One of them was the psychologist Lev Vygotsky, who, exploring the spiritual world of the protagonists in fine literature, revealed their psychological contradictions, expressed in the conflict of the narrative and the plot. Another The other, Sergei Eisenstein, was well-versed in Vygotsky’s manuscript of his study, Psychology of Art, and, influenced by some of these ideas, created his own “psychology of art”, which is set out in his works of various years. The core of this concept was “the transition from the Expressive Movement to the image of the art work… as a process of interaction of layers of consciousness” [1, p. 188], which allowed for multiple entries into the artistic image (one of the authors has applied this method of analysis in a work devoted to the integration of the principles of painting and cinema: [2, pp. 63–86]). Some features of the cinematograph also support such entries, and the first among equals here is the principle of intellectual editing developed by Eisenstein. In his montage theory, other types of editing—linear, parallel, associative—have been generalized and developed into a large-scale system for exploring the psychology of heroes in art. The essence of these processes, identified in the article, made it possible for the authors to discern the phenomenon of building the meaning in the Halle directors’ interpretations of Handel’s operas, which arises from the merger of the two seemingly irreconcilable and conflicting layers of consciousness: Baroque and eclectic modern, which emerged at the turn of the last century.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Contemporary opera"

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Ferraro, Mario. "Contemporary opera in Britain, 1970-2010." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1279/.

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This study of contemporary opera in Britain considers first, the theoretical aspects of the creation of an opera, then moves to a survey of British opera companies and their productions of modern opera over the past 40 years. There follows a detailed study of three works produced in Britain during this time, all of which are of particular significance to this composer: Maxwell Davies’s The Lighthouse, Saariaho’s L’amour de loin, and Birtwistle’s The Minotaur. The final chapter concerns the production of my own opera, The Moonflower (2011). The study was informed by established theories about opera and its history; an examination of scores, libretti and programme booklets for some operas produced in Britain, 1970 – 2010; direct contact between the author and composers, co-creators, and the works themselves (including attendance at many recent operatic productions in London), and the analysis of excerpts from the three contemporary operas mentioned above, while investigation of opera companies active in the period aimed to identify some possible trends in programming. The creation and performance of the author´s own opera was the culmination of this investigation; it illuminated many of the issues raised above, concerning the process of composing, designing and staging an operatic work in the early twenty-first century.
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LaBonte, Hillary. "Analyzing Gender Inequality in Contemporary Opera." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1562758176443906.

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Carlile, Solfa. "Characterisation in contemporary opera and music theatre." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd3468ba-dba6-49c2-88d4-82c2bb23af5c.

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This doctoral research comprises a practitioner-based reflective enquiry to bridge the gap between theory and practice and enhance my compositional output. In tandem with the composition of my chamber opera, The Exile, I have undertaken research into characterisation within the context of opera and musical theatre, with a focus on both the delineation of individual characters and the context in which they appear. Parameters of the work are discussed in comparison with canonic works of both opera and music theatre. Contemporary uses of leitmotif, representation of speech and folk music within operatic works are acknowledged and their influence on the composition is presented along with musical examples. The conventional composer-librettist partnership is discussed, along with suggestions for how respective roles for composer and librettist have evolved in recent times. An insight into the collaborative compositional process is presented in the final chapter, as my work with librettist Gillian Pencavel is discussed. The Exile is an original work informed by this research and is a contribution to the repertoire as well as an investigation into many compositional techniques presented in this thesis.
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Lôbo, de Azevedo Mello Neto Armando. "Iludens! : a concept opera." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33071.

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Iludens! - a concept-opera comprises conceptual essay and music portfolio. The conceptual essay explores musical, dramatic, and ritualistic aspects that qualify play as a structuring factor in culture. It aims at producing a multi-layered amalgamation of Philosophical Anthropology and Art, focusing on the strategies for creating a new piece of music - in this case, a conceptual opera (or performative oratorio). The music portfolio features several pieces composed by me throughout the doctoral period. Some pieces have a more direct connection to my doctoral research. The largest and most important one is the concept-opera Iludens, through which I developed patterns of aesthetic creation inspired by philosophical conceptions related to the notion of play. Also, as agon1 is one of the crucial aspects I was able to identify in the history of play, I have explored some agonistic features in culture and provided an interpretation of elements of conflictive interaction using the tools of contemporary concert music. The conceptual essay and the main piece of the music portfolio are intimately related. I consider music according to the Greek classic notion of mousiké, namely an entity of multiple knowledge and applications, rather than a mere craft of physical sounds.
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Sauer, Vincent Philip. "Short Opera for Five Voices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490715372901732.

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Howlett, May Catherine. "The production of a contemporary chamber opera (The boy who wasn't there)." Thesis, Electronic version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/769.

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A creative work and dissertation in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Research) Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Dept. of Contemporary Music Studies.
Dissertation, libretto and score of the opera.
Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University (Division of Humanities, Dept. of Contemporary Music Studies), 2005.
Bibliography: p. 138-141.
Introduction -- Historical background and literature review -- Structural and philosophic changes -- Chamber opera: a genre in evolution -- Chamber opera: its potential for the future -- The personal experiment -- Conclusion..
From its origins as chamber opera just over four hundred years ago, Opera developed through the 18th and 19th centuries, in length and complexity, to attain the status of 'grand', a term that most people associate with opera to this day ... At the beginning of the 20th century, radical innovations in the arts influenced by movements such as the Bauhaus phenomenon, added to the aftermath of a world war that shattered existing socio-political structures and artistic sentiments turned from extroverted displays of grandeur to the creation of more cerebral, introverted styles. ... On the threshold of a new millennium, small, often experimental companies, passionately convinced of the relevance of, and excited by the artistic potential inherent in this revitalized form of opera, formed a loose consortium of creative artists internationally, similar in spirit to the original Camerata of the 16th century, making use of current technologies. Whether these newer works may be styled 'chamber opera' or 'music theatre', they represent a form in evolution, capable of further development into a new genre, a vital nexus of traditional skills applied to current issues, peculiarly suited to integration with electronic modes such as television.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Brignall, Oliver. "Wonder, grain, silence and notation : commentary on a portfolio of compositions." Thesis, Brunel University, 2018. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17593.

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This thesis includes a portfolio of written compositions and a written commentary. The compositions submitted present the development of a bespoke notation that reflects a specific set of aesthetic concerns. The written commentary is comprised of five chapters. The first four each deal with a specific aesthetic interest and present the majority of the composition portfolio as an ongoing research project. The final chapter is a commentary on the final work in the portfolio, the opera Palace of Junk, and reflects on this work as the culmination of the research undertaken. Throughout the commentary, aesthetic ideas are considered for both their sonic capabilities and the possibilities of imbuing a more physical style of playing. The subsequent notation developed, represents a method in which the resultant sound and physical action is implicit within the score.
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Tafreshipour, Amir Mahyar. "From virtuoso solo to ensemble opera." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13552.

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Writing for solo instruments today offers composers an option to create a framework that results from the psychoacoustic interaction of composer, listener and performer. The interaction between musicians, audience and the concert environment, and the extent to which they themselves embody the material of the music presented, can be called into question and a composer's expectation of the dynamics of the concert situation is part of this examination. This understanding in turn prepares the way for one of the ultimate challenges and achievements for a composer, writing an opera. Opera combines all the other arts with the composer in command, which is not the case when composing for dance or providing auxiliary music for theatre. Writing an opera means that all features of structure and timing are in the composer’s hands. Opera has had a crisis of identity; the market for traditional operas and classic repertoire but there is no overall identity for contemporary operatic writers. However modern opera is still evolving. This thesis will recount a range of musical ideas developed for a variety of classical solo instruments, all of which attempt to create this interactive concert situation, before going on to consider the three year evolution of my opera The Doll Behind the Curtain.
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Stevens, Nicholas David. "Lulu's Daughters: Portraying the Anti-Heroine in Contemporary Opera, 1993-2013." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1497460068959016.

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Steele, Jordin. "The role of collaboration in contemporary opera creation: A practice-led approach." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/102043/1/Jordin_Steele_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led research explores the potential of multidisciplinary collaboration as a strategy to break down tacit knowledge and increase individual and group creativity. The auto-ethnographical exegesis documents the development of a major creative work, The Void and the Light and proposes a new collaborative model for the creation of contemporary opera. The knowledge generated from this research offers a practical insight into systematic methods for collaboration and strategies for aesthetic decision making in interdisciplinary ensembles.
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Books on the topic "Contemporary opera"

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Matthews, Stephen Ralph. Contemporary opera & music. [Wellington, N.Z: The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 1998.

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Torgāns, Jānis. Opera libretu spogulī 1960 - 2010 [In Latvian - Opera: in a Mirror of Libretto 1960 - 2010]. Riga, Latvia: SIA Drukātava, 2012.

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Warner, Marina. Donkey Business, donkey work: Magic and metamorphosis in contemporary opera. Swansea: University of Wales Swansea, 1996.

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Marx, Robert. Contemporary American musical theater, opera, and experimental music theater: An overview of current conditions and future trends. [Washington, D.C.]: Policy and Planning Division, National Endowment for the Arts, 1985.

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Seidel, Kathleen Gilles. Again. London: Coronet, 1995.

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Burke, Betsy. Performance anxiety. Don Mills, Ont: Red Dress Ink., 2004.

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Hand, Elizabeth. Black light. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.

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Pour une approche systémique de l'opéra contemporain. Paris: Observatoire musical français, 2001.

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Ann Patchett. Bel canto: A novel. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2002.

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Ann Patchett. Bel canto: A novel. New York: Perennial, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Contemporary opera"

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Iudica, Giovanni. "The “Gesualdo Case” in Contemporary Melodrama." In Law and Opera, 159–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68649-3_11.

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Bauer, Amy. "Contemporary opera and the failure of language." In The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, 427–53. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315613291-19.

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Olson, David M., Adrienne Ettinger, Gerlinde A. S. Metz, Suzanne King, Suzette Bremault-Phillips, and Joanne K. Olson. "Contemporary Environmental Stressors and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: OPERA." In Handbook of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, 155–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1_10.

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Rush, Adam. "The “Phan”-dom of the Opera: Gothic Fan Cultures and Intertextual Otherness." In Contemporary Gothic Drama, 139–58. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95359-2_8.

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Halliwell, Michael. "Prologue." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 1–14. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-1.

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Halliwell, Michael. "Coda." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 187–90. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-10.

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Halliwell, Michael. "Failure." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 15–34. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-2.

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Halliwell, Michael. "The bush – The Ghost Wife, Whitsunday and Fly Away Peter." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 35–58. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-3.

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Halliwell, Michael. "Postwar disillusion." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 59–80. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-4.

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Halliwell, Michael. "New beginnings – Bride of Fortune and The Riders." In National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, 81–99. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315597171-5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Contemporary opera"

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Alexeev, Sergey Khristoforovich, and Olga Setnerovna Nesterova. "Major trends in contemporary opera art." In IX International Research-to-practice Conference. TSNS Interaktiv Plus, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21661/r-113076.

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Chen, Xuemei. "Discussion on Opera Dance's Function in Opera Performance." In 2016 International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-16.2016.80.

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Voitkevich, Svetlana. "To the Problem of the Chamber Opera as a Specific Genre Evidence from "White Nights", the Opera by Yuri Butsko." In 2nd International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icadce-16.2016.9.

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Haiyan, Xu. "The utilization of traditional music culture in contemporary local opera of China—a case study of Sizhou Opera." In Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Social Development (ICECSD 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icecsd-19.2019.26.

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Van, Kesin. "Bel Canto's Influence on the Development of Modern Chinese Opera Singing." In All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation. Publishing house Sreda, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-98545.

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Since the emergence of bel canto in China, traditional Chinese singing has been greatly influenced. Modern Chinese opera not only inherits the essence of Chinese national music, but also includes the unique vocal abilities of bel canto. It is thanks to Chinese national music and bel canto, which give Chinese opera singing in modern opera a whole new artistic experience that makes contemporary Chinese opera singing aimed at diversified development. The article analyzes the direction of development of bel canto in the field of Chinese art and the influence of bel canto on the direction of development of Chinese opera singing. Clarify the direction of development of the Chinese operatic art.
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Shang, Lina. "Fashion Representation of Henan Opera Art in Two-dimensional Animation." In 2015 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icadce-15.2015.68.

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Zhang, Tao. "The Rise and Decline of Chinese Opera in Indonesia." In 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icadce-18.2018.9.

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Jin, Qianwei. "Discussion on the Innovative Practice of the Cai Diao Opera “Oil-Tea Camellia County Magistrate” and the Peking Opera “Oil-Tea Camellia Censor”." In 8th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2022). Amsterdam: Athena International Publishing B.V., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55060/s.atssh.221107.033.

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Jiao, Shuanghong. "Discussion on Combination of Contemporary Chu Opera and Music Teaching in Local Universities." In 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics 2016. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.22.

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Luo, Juan. "Analysis on Application of Traditional Chinese Opera Costume Elements in Contemporary Costume Design." In 2017 3rd International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/essaeme-17.2017.88.

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