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Auteur(s) : McClary, Susan (1946-....)
Titre(s) : The passions of Peter Sellars [Texte imprimé] : staging the music / Susan McClary
Publication : Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-218 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
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 Sellar'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
Sujet(s) : Sellars, Peter (1957-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-472-13122-8. - ISBN 0472131222 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45681461d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45681461
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Table des matières : Introduction : Who is Peter Sellars? ; American Mozart ; Ritualizing : Saint François
and Theodora ; Inventing new operas : Collaborations with John Adams, Part I ; A
libretto of one's own : Collaborations with John Adams, Part II ; Spectral sensualities
: Collaborations with Kaija Saariaho ; Peter Sellars's Mayan Passion ; Back to the
source : The Bach Passions.
