The passions of Peter Sellars : staging the music /

The passions of Peter Sellars : staging the music /

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Author / Creator:	McClary, Susan, author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 218 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Sellars, Peter -- Criticism and interpretation. Sellars, Peter. Opera -- Production and direction -- History -- 20th century. Opera -- Production and direction. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12681423

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ISBN:	9780472124794 047212479X 9780472131228
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 08, 2019).
Summary:	Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed-and often controversial-versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho, to create challenging new operas. The Passions of Peter Sellars follows the development of his style, beginning with his interpretations of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, proceeding to works for which he assembled the libretti and even the music, and concluding with his celebrated stagings of Bach's passions with the Berlin Philharmonic. Many directors leave the musical aspects of opera entirely to the singers and conductor. Sellars, however, immerses himself in the score, and has created a distinctive visual vocabulary to embody musical gesture on stage, drawing on the energies of the music as he shapes characters, ensemble interaction, and large-scale dramatic trajectories. As a leading scholar of gender and music, and the history of opera, Susan McClary is ideally positioned to illuminate Sellars's goal to address both the social tensions embodied in these operas as well as the spiritual dimensions of operatic performance. McClary considers Sellars's productions of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte; Handel's Theodora; Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise; John C. Adams's Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño, and Doctor Atomic; Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin, La Passion de Simone, and Only the Sound Remains; Purcell's The Indian Queen; and Bach's passions of Saint Matthew and Saint John. Approaching Sellars's theatrical strategies from a musicological perspective, McClary blends insights from theater, film, and literary scholarship to explore the work of one of the most brilliant living interpreters of opera.
Other form:	Print version: McClary, Susan. Passions of Peter Sellars. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019 9780472131228
Standard no.:	10.3998/mpub.10023187

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Summary:	Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed--and often controversial--versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho, to create challenging new operas. The Passions of Peter Sellars follows the development of his style, beginning with his interpretations of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, proceeding to works for which he assembled the libretti and even the music, and concluding with his celebrated stagings of Bach's passions with the Berlin Philharmonic.<br> <br> Many directors leave the musical aspects of opera entirely to the singers and conductor. Sellars, however, immerses himself in the score, and has created a distinctive visual vocabulary to embody musical gesture on stage, drawing on the energies of the music as he shapes characters, ensemble interaction, and large-scale dramatic trajectories. As a leading scholar of gender and music, and the history of opera, Susan McClary is ideally positioned to illuminate Sellars's goal to address both the social tensions embodied in these operas as well as the spiritual dimensions of operatic performance. McClary considers Sellars's productions of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , Don Giovanni , and Così fan tutte ; Handel's Theodora ; Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise ; John C. Adams's Nixon in China , The Death of Klinghoffer , El Niño , and Doctor Atomic ; Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin , La Passion de Simone , and Only the Sound Remains ; Purcell's The Indian Queen ; and Bach's passions of Saint Matthew and Saint John. Approaching Sellars's theatrical strategies from a musicological perspective, McClary blends insights from theater, film, and literary scholarship to explore the work of one of the most brilliant living interpreters of opera.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vi, 218 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780472124794 047212479X 9780472131228