Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation

Auteur(s) : Kluge, Alexander (1932-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Temple of the scapegoat [Texte imprimé] : opera stories / by Alexander Kluge ; translated by Isabel Fargo Cole, Donna Stonecipher & others

Traduction de : Tempel der Sündenbock

Publication : New York : New Directions Books, copyright 2018

Description matérielle : xii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Note(s) : Translated from the German
"Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge's Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and their stars) compresses a lifetime of feeling and thought: Kluge is deeply engaged with the opera and an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. The titles of his stories suggest his many turns of mind: "Total Commitment," "Freedom," "Reality Outrivals Theater," "The Correct Slowing-Down at the Transitional Point Between Terror and an Inkling of Freedom," "A Crucial Character (Among Persons None of Whom Are Who They Think They Are)," and "Deadly Vocal Power vs. Generosity in Opera." An opera, Kluge says, is a blast furnace of the soul, telling of the great singer Leonard Warren who died onstage, having literally sung his heart out. Kluge introduces a Tibetan scholar who realizes that opera "is about comprehension and passion. The two never go together. Passion overwhelms comprehension. Comprehension kills passion. This appears to be the essence of all operas, says Huang Tse-we: she also comes to understand that female roles face the harshest fates. Compared to the mass of soprano victims (out of 86,000 operas, 64,000 end with the death of the soprano), the sacrice of tenors is small (out of 86,000 operas 1,143 tenors are a write-off)." "

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Cole, Isabel Fargo (1973-....). Traducteur  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Stonecipher, Donna (1969-....). Traducteur  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Opéra  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Genre ou forme : Nouvelles  Voir les notices liées en tant que genre ou forme

Indice(s) Dewey :  782.1 (23e éd.) = Opéras et formes dramatiques connexes de musique vocale  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780811227483. - ISBN 0811227480

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb46507185b

Notice n° :  FRBNF46507185 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

Table des matières : The opera principle ; "In the first act I can't know the awful denouement in the fifth act" ; Fatal vocal force vs. generosity in the opera ; Reality challenges theater for top billing ; "When we were still reptiles, we did not have feelings" ; Blast furnaces of the soul.