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Bezig met laden... Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Storiesdoor Alexander Kluge
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I don't know if it's helpful to "rate" Kluge. It's not good or bad, it just Kluge. Collection of miniature essays and musings on all facets of opera. Much to ponder here. A mixture of fact and fiction; I can't tell which is which unless the individual selection is very obvious. Reflections on various singers, opera houses, and opera plots. Some of my favorites: "Total commitment": Leonard Warren, his dedication to his art and his unfortunate death onstage during a performance. "Nearly every night they expected an air raid": During a performance of Tosca, how two people met then later married. "Conversation with the Kammersänger": He's always hopeful during Act I; he doesn't know the horrible denouement in the last act. Maybe someday it'll change to a happy ending. "The bandits"> [Jacques Offenbach]: the composer's foreshadowing the events of the next 69 years in a work written in 2 weeks. "What a Cassandra!" "Can hearts set buildings on fire?": The incompetence of the Cairo Fire Department in not saving the city's opera house from a fire, not people's passion for opera, caused the opera house to burn down. But like the phoenix, it rose from its ashes. "Aggressive gaze of blood": what happened to Norma's children after their parents' death and succeeding generations. Highly recommended for music lovers. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge'sTemple 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." He 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 sacrifice of tenors is small (out of 86,000 operas 1,143 tenors are a write-off)." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)833.92Literature German and related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1990-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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