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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewUniquely, this volume gives us innovative translations, detailed comparisons and interdisciplinary analyses of all three texts detailing the journey from Carl Gozzi's fiaba, through Meyerhold/Soloviev/Vogak's Divertissement, to Prokofiev's opera. Previous literature mapped some of the changes, but none offered the comprehensive analyses we find in this book. . . . The tripartite structure of the book is the most logical in terms of the material and, together with the cited paired chapters, as well as reading chapters as stand-alone texts, allow a multi-focus use both for the specialist and the general reader. The editors are to be congratulated for their overall innovative approach and for making the work of many Italian and Russian scholars available in English.
-- F Jane Schopf * Stanislavski Studies *
Table of ContentsEditorial Notes
List of Definitions and Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
List of Musical Examples
Preface: How Not to Die Laughing in a Lethal Time, by Caryl Emerson
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Dassia N. Posner, Kevin Bartig, and Maria De Simone
Part I: The Fiaba
1. Reflective Analysis of the Fairy Tale The Love of Three Oranges, by Carlo Gozzi , by Maria De Simone
2. The Love of Three Oranges, Venice 1761: A Theatrical Provocation, by Alberto Beniscelli
3. A Short Note on the First Sacchi Company , by Giulietta Bazoli
4. Gozzi's The Love of Three Oranges: A New Horizon of Expectations, by Domenico Pietropaolo
5. Carlo Gozzi's Reactionary Imagination, by Ted Emery
6. A Cultural Pastiche of Fantasy, Satire, and Citrus: Gozzi's The Love of Three Oranges in its German Afterlife, by Natalya Baldyga
Part II: The Divertissement
7. Love for Three Oranges. A Divertissement in Twelve Scenes, a Prologue, an Epilogue, and Three Interludes, by Konstantin Vogak, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Vladimir Soloviev, by Dassia N. Posner
8. Carlo Gozzi in The Journal of Doctor Dapertutto , by Raissa Raskina
9. Meyerhold and the Russian Commedia dell'Arte Myth , by Vadim Shcherbakov
10. The Miklashevsky Connection, by Laurence Senelick
11. From Divertissement to Opera: Two Russian Oranges, by Julia Galanina
Part III: The Opera
12. Love for Three Oranges, by Sergei Prokofiev , by Kevin Bartig
13. Tsardom and Buttocks: From Empress Anna to Prokofiev's Fata Morgana, by Inna Naroditskaya
14. Notes on the Musical Parody in Prokofiev's Three Oranges , by Natalia Savkina
15. Notes on the Notes , by Simon A. Morrison
16. Boris Anisfeld, an Alchemist of Color , by John E. Bowlt
17. Oranges in Leningrad , by Kevin Bartig
List of Contributors
Index
