Verdi's Settings of Shakespeare : from Play to Liberetto to Opera

As a Senior Scholar pursuing the topic, Verdi's Settings of Shakespeare: From Play to Libretto to Opera, I have endeavoured to study a project relevant to my majors, Music and English. During first semester, I carefully analysed Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth, Othello and Falstaff. The highlight of my project was in January when I travelled to New York City and spent the day working with the Metropolitan Opera Guild. I was also able to see a performance of Verdi's Othello with Jon Vickers in the lead role. During the second semester, I studied the musical aspects of the compositions. I spent time analysing musical passages and relating them to the plays and the operas. I was also able to continue my study of Italian, which I find extremely beneficial while studying Verdi's libretti. On Monday, 13th May, 1974, I gave a lecture presentation of my project. At this time, I showed slides of Metropolitan productions of the operas, presented my own rendition of five arias (in costume) and talked about comparisions between the plays and the operas. I applied for a Rotary Fellowship to take my project to Europe and am presently waiting to hear the results. If I do receive the fellowship, I am planning to spend a year studying the plays and operas in England and Italy. Afterwards, I hope to publish a paper explaining my findings. The paper is divided into six sections. The first section is an introduction which explains the period of Romanticism and its relationship to Shakespeare and Verdi. The second section is devoted to discussing the librettist for Macbeth, Francesco Piave. Following this section the opera Macbeth is discussed. Arrigo Boito, the librettist for Otello and Falstaff is discussed in the fourth section. The last two sections deal with Otello and Falstaff. I have also included a number of musical selections to better explain certain passages. My project has been invaluable to me. My Senior Scholar project has allowed me the freedom of independent study as well as a means of tying my majors together.

The castle specter : a dramatic romance in five acts /

Plays submitted to the Lord Chamberlain.

Product placement in US and New Zealand television soap operas : an exploratory study

Although the soap opera as a television genre has consistently captured the imagination of millions of people around the world, surprisingly little has been written about it in the marketing literature. Understanding the consumption imagery in soaps may allow marketers to assess the relevance of product placement for their promotion strategy better, as well as providing valuable insight into the consumption habits of their considerable viewing audiences. Data were collected through content analysis from two soap operas, one in the USA and one in New Zealand. The results indicated a high level of consumption imagery, including brand references. Furthermore significant differences in the types of product and the emotional outcome of product use were found between the countries.

Marking the liminal for true blue Aussies : the generic placement of Aboriginality in Australian soap operas.

This paper addresses a previously unconsidered history — that of Aboriginal characters in Australian soap operas. Rejecting critical approaches which have obtained even into the 1990s, it refuses to judge these characters as 'good' or 'bad' manifestations of indigeneity. Rather, using the idea that genre is a way of closing down interpretive possibilities, the paper looks at the manner in which generic expectations around soap operas produce particular valences for these representations of Aboriginality. It points to the many ways in which these indigenous characters are insistently constructed as liminal in soap operas' structural communities - simultaneously inside and outside of the group. This is seen to accord with the suggestions of Jakubowicz et al about the ways in which Aboriginal people are positioned by wider social discourses.

Dance in Handel's London Operas

In considering Handel's imaginative response to a range of contemporary theatrical dance styles and practices, this study demonstrates that dance was far from peripheral to the genre of opera seria. The importance of London as a leading centre for dance innovation, and the interaction between various theatrical genres regarding the use of dance, is also established.

Adapter l'opéra au cinéma, entre création et reproduction : étude sociologique de "La Flûte enchantée" de Bergman

La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU).

Development and validation of the Overall Personality Assessment Scale (OPERAS)

Resumen tomado de la publicaci??n

Música e civilização: a atividade musical no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista (1808-1863)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Selections From Popular Hebrew Operas. Melz Josher. Opus 1, 2 und Klaviersatz

Für Klavier solo, ohne Gesang und ohne Text

Selections from Popular Hebrew Operas. Gehenim and Ganeiden.Opus 1. und 2. Quartette und Duet

Für Klavier solo, ohne Gesang und ohne Text

The standard-operaglass : containing the detailed plots of ninety celebrated operas with critical remarks, dates &c. &c. /

Mode of access: Internet.

The English theatre. [A collection of 66 pieces, tragedies, comedies, operas and farces correctly given as performed at the Theatres Royal, with remarks]

v. 1-4. Tragedies.--v. 5-9. Comedies.--v. 10-14. Operas, farces, etc.

The home treasure, a collection of pianoforte music, for four hands, consisting of rondos, variations, nocturnes, romances, fantaisies, waltzes, polkas, schottisches, mazurkas, marches, quicksteps, galops, and selections from the operas.

Mode of access: Internet.