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Unsettling Opera Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky

Levin David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226475233, ISBN: HB: 9780226475226, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 musical examples, 26 halftones

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work...

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Uncloseting Drama American Modernism and Queer Performance

Salvato Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300155396, Yale University Press, November 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the "closet drama" – plays written largely for private reading – as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.

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Leading Roles 50 Questions Every Arts Board Should Ask

Kaiser Michael M.

ISBN: HB: 9781584659068, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not-for-profit arts organizations struggled to survive the recent economic recession. In this increasingly hardscrabble environment, it is absolutely imperative that the boards of these organizations function as energetically, creatively, and efficie...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Art of Ancient Greek Theater

Hart Mary L.

ISBN: HB: 9781606060377, Getty Publications, September 2010
176 pp., 28.7x24.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 67 black&white illus.

This is an exploration of Greek theatre as seen through its many depictions in classical art. "The Art of Ancient Greek Theater" addresses the vibrant imprint that ancient Greek tragedy and comedy left on the visual arts of classical Greece. Theatric...

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Performing Arts

Lidless

Cowhig Frances Ya-Chu

ISBN: PB: 9780300160307, ISBN: HB: 9780300169423, Yale University Press, September 2010
96 pp., 21x14 cm

It's been fifteen years since Guantanamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U. S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and dema...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

I, Maya Plisetskaya

Plisetskaya Maya, Bouis Antonina W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172478, Yale University Press, September 2010
470 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odysse...

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The German List

Biography A Game

Frisch Max

ISBN: PB: 9781906497460, Seagull Books, August 2010
121 pp., 22x12.8 cm

In this play by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch, a middle-aged behavioral researcher Kurmann is given the opportunity to start his life over at any point he chooses and change his decisions and actions in matters both serious and mundane – H...

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Culture Studies

Performing Arts

On the Edge of Utopia Performance and Ritual at Burning Man

Bowditch Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9781906497255, Seagull Books, July 2010
364 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 70 halftones

During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revo...

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Culture Studies

Fireworks Pyrotechnic Arts and Sciences in European History

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226893778, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 36 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics – in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs – have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon W...

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French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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