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The result is a book that amplifies our understanding of not only the genre but also the social ambivalences and contradictions it reflected on the eve of the French Revolution.” -- Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most valuable contributions of \u003ci\u003eThe Comedians of the King\u003c\/i\u003e is to have integrated a deep dive into the business side of \u003ci\u003eopéra-comique\u003c\/i\u003e and the administrative machinery of culture, which made it possible for the genre to flourish, with an exploration of the artistic innovations and successes that it accomplished during the final decades of the eighteenth century. As a result of this capacious approach, Julia Doe captures in exemplary fashion the full complexity and paradoxes of the genre’s expansion in late eighteenth-century France. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Comedians of the King\u003c\/i\u003e will have a lasting impact on the study of eighteenth-century French musical culture and on scholars who, following Doe, hope to ground their work in a robust interdisciplinary methodology.\" * Journal of the American Musicological Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"Groundbreaking. . . . Doe’s book presents a new historical account that explains how an originally operatic genre of secondary rank thrived and then outlived a major phase of the Bourbon monarchy. The \u003ci\u003eComedians of the King\u003c\/i\u003e presents a freshly conceived continuity of operatic genre through major historic changes.\" * Music and Letters *\u003cbr\u003e\"The overarching aim of Doe’s revised story of the opéra-comique is to offer, in her words, a framework that can better ‘match the nuance of the theatrical world it confronts.' Specifically, she hopes ‘to temper the assumed polarities of opera comique and tragédie lyrique; to deepen our understanding of these genre’s political functions; and to better capture the musical complexity, diversity, and contradictions of a society in the process of radical change.' I think the book she has created does achieve these goals, and I know my understanding of the opéra-comique, its social world and its political entanglements is much richer for it.\" * Eighteenth Century Music *\u003cbr\u003e\"Doe demonstrates how librettists and composers came to test the limits of this genre by turning it into an alternative to Tragédie lyrique for the elite, while explaining how opéra-comique was exploited in the construction of the cultivated public image of the monarchy. This contribution is all the more important as it offers a nuanced picture of the aesthetic and musical evolutions of a complex genre that contributed to the construction of a \u003ci\u003egenre éminemment national \u003c\/i\u003ein the nineteenth century.\" -- Maxime Margollé * H-France Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial Principles\u003cbr\u003e   Introduction Institutional History\u003cbr\u003e Dialogue Opera and the Cosmopolitan “Revolution”\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Genre\u003cbr\u003e 1. \u003ci\u003eOpéra Comique\u003c\/i\u003e and the Legacy of Colbert Comic Theater and the \u003ci\u003eQuerelle des Bouffons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theater and the Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Nouvelle Troupe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Rivalries\u003cbr\u003e 2. Character, Class, and Style in the Lyric \u003ci\u003eDrame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBienséance\u003c\/i\u003e in \u003ci\u003eAncien Régime\u003c\/i\u003e Opera\u003cbr\u003e Opéra Comique and the \u003ci\u003eDrame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Romance and Refinement \u003cbr\u003e Recitative for the \u003ci\u003ePeuple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lyric \u003ci\u003eDrame\u003c\/i\u003e at the Opéra\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Musical Revolutions of Marie Antoinette The Musical Patronage of a Habsburg Queen\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTragédie Lyrique\u003c\/i\u003e and Its Parodies\/\/\u003cbr\u003e Italian Opera at the French Court\u003cbr\u003e Despotism and \u003ci\u003ePrivilège\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Decadence of the Pastoral Pastoral Living at the Petit Trianon\u003cbr\u003e “Private” Pastorals: The \u003ci\u003eTroupe des Seigneurs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ceremonial Pastorals for Court and Capital\u003cbr\u003e The Pastoral as Adaptation: C. S. Favart’s \u003ci\u003eNinette à la cour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. “Heroic” Comedy on the Eve of 1789 Opera and Revolution at the Salle Favart\u003cbr\u003e The Development of “Heroic” Comedy\u003cbr\u003e The “Heroic” \u003ci\u003eSargines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Continuity and Rupture\u003cbr\u003e 6. 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Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critiquean 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 ofrecorded 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. 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His analysis of the changing sound and use of recitative, like his illustration of the crucial role of conductors, is especially enriching.” * Opera News *\u003cbr\u003e\"Musicologist Richard Will’s fascinating study, \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni Captured\u003c\/i\u003e, examines the way Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera has been heard and seen since the birth of recorded sound... For those of us who care about opera, \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni Captured\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating book.\" * New York Journal of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Richard Will’s \u003ci\u003e‘Don Giovanni’ Captured\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to approaches to Mozart’s masterpiece, so often marooned in constraining music-critical discourse or run aground in moral debates. Armed now with Will’s multiple accounts of audio and visual recordings, we have a richly mediated history that will disrupt how we think about operas as ‘works’ while superseding more insular and less historical analyses. \u003ci\u003e‘Don Giovanni’ Captured\u003c\/i\u003e, by building on a lively archive of performed recordings, will greatly expand the horizons of how we teach and think about this incomparable work.” * Martha Feldman, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a highly original book, one of the first to devote detailed and sustained attention to the history of a work’s recorded interpretation. It is quite astonishing to think that nothing of the sort has existed until now, given that we have lived with recordings for well over a century.\u003ci\u003e ‘Don Giovanni’ Captured\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a most welcome and timely addition to the literature on \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e, Mozart’s operas, the genre of opera, and indeed the entire field of musicology.” * Emanuele Senici, University of Rome La Sapienza *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a fascinating and long-overdue study of Mozart's opera \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e as it has been presented in recorded form, both aurally and visually . . . Highly recommended.\"  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"This insightful and original study illuminates fundamental trends in the performance of Mozart over the past 125 years, while also exploring the history of the recording industry as well as demonstrating the implications of performance choices for understanding the opera’s many complexities.\" * Early Music America *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote to Readers\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I Clouds of Feeling: Excerpt Audio Recordings\u003cbr\u003e 1 Imagining Excerpts\u003cbr\u003e 2 Rhetorics of Seduction\u003cbr\u003e 3 Demons and Dandies\u003cbr\u003e 4 All Too Human\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II Invented Works: Complete Audio Recordings\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Virtual Stage\u003cbr\u003e 6 Cruel Laughter\u003cbr\u003e 7 Dancing in Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III Partial Visions: Video Recordings\u003cbr\u003e 8 Zooming In, Gazing Back\u003cbr\u003e 9 Trauma Retold\u003cbr\u003e 10 Libertines Punished\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Discography\u003cbr\u003e Videography\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864241779031,"sku":"9780226815411","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226815411.jpg?v=1722271031"},{"product_id":"richard-wagner-9780226924618","title":"Richard Wagner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such as the Flying Dutchman. 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It examines the standard performance repertoire and works considered important for the genre's development. It also presents an investigation of opera from Eastern European countries and Finland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether it be Monteverdi or Gluck or Wagner, no saner guide than Grout can be recommended The Times Literary Supplement (of earlier edition) Combines learning with a grace of expression seldom encountered in works of this kind. The subject is treated in greater detail than the word 'short'might indicate. 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