Description: Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage by Inna Naroditskaya Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description In Bewitching Russian Opera , Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century - Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological approaches, her study traces the tsarinas deeply invested interest in musical drama, as each built theaters, established drama schools, commissioned operas and ballets, and themselveswrote and produced musical plays. Naroditskaya examines the creative output of the tsarinas across the contexts in which they worked and lived, revealing significant connections between their personal creative aspirations and contemporary musical-theatrical practices, and the political and state affairsconducted during their reigns. Bewitching Russian Opera ultimately demonstrates that the theater served as an experimental space for these imperial women, in which they rehearsed, probed, and formulated gender and class roles, and enacted on the musical stage political ambitions and international conquests which they would later carry out on the world stage itself. Publisher Description In Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, author Inna Naroditskaya investigates the musical lives of four female monarchs who ruled Russia for most of the eighteenth century: Catherine I, Anna, Elizabeth, and Catherine the Great. Engaging with ethnomusicological, historical, and philological approaches, her study traces the tsarinas deeply invested interest in musical drama, as each built theaters, established drama schools,commissioned operas and ballets, and themselves wrote and produced musical plays. Naroditskaya examines the creative output of the tsarinas across the contexts in which they worked and lived, revealing significantconnections between their personal creative aspirations and contemporary musical-theatrical practices, and the political and state affairs conducted during their reigns. Through contemporary performance theory, she demonstrates how the opportunity for role-playing and costume-changing in performative spaces allowed individuals to cross otherwise rigid boundaries of class and gender. A close look at a series of operas and musical theater productions--from Catherine theGreats fairy tale operas to Tchaikovskys Pique Dame--illuminates the transition of these royal women from powerful political and cultural figures during their own reigns, to a marginalized and unrealOther under the patriarchal dominance of the subsequent period. These tsarinas successfully fostered the concept of a modern nation and collective national identity, only to then have their power and influence undone in Russian cultural consciousness through the fairy-tales operas of the 19th century that positioned tsarinas as "magical" and dangerous figures rightfully displaced and conquered--by triumphant heroes on the stage, and by the new patriarchal rulers in the state. Ultimately, thisbook demonstrates that the theater served as an experimental space for these imperial women, in which they rehearsed, probed, and formulated gender and class roles, and performed on the musical stagepolitical ambitions and international conquests which they would later enact on the world stage itself. Author Biography Inna Naroditskaya is Associate Professor of Music at Northwestern University. Details ISBN 0195340582 ISBN-13 9780195340587 Title Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage Author Inna Naroditskaya Format Hardcover Year 2012 Pages 401 Publisher Oxford University Press, USA GE_Item_ID:137013660; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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ISBN-13: 9780195340587
Book Title: Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Name: Bewitching Russian Opera : the Tsarina from State to Stage
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2012
Subject: Royalty, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, History & Theory, General, Genres & Styles / Opera
Item Height: 1.5 in
Item Weight: 24.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 6.5 in
Author: Inna Naroditskaya
Item Width: 9.4 in
Format: Hardcover
