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Author Kreuzer, Gundula Katharina, 1975- author.

Title Curtain, gong, steam : Wagnerian technologies of nineteenth-century opera / Gundula Kreuzer.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 348 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : opera, staging, technology -- Wagner's Venusberg -- Curtain -- Gong -- Steam -- Epilogue : Wagnerian failure -- Notes.
Summary "In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-century opera. She shows how composers increasingly incorporated novel audiovisual effects in their works and how the uses and meanings of the required machineries consistently changed, sometimes still resonating in contemporary stagings, performance art, and popular culture. Focusing on devices (which she dubs 'Wagnerian technologies') intended to amalgamate opera's various media while veiling their mechanics, Kreuzer offers a practical counternarrative to Wagner's idealist theories of total illusionism. Curtain, Gong, Steam's multifaceted exploration of the three titular technologies repositions Wagner as catalyst more than inventor in the history of operatic production. With its broad chronological and geographical scope, the book deepens our understanding of the material and mechanical conditions of historical operatic practice as well as of individual works, both well known and obscure"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Aesthetics.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Aesthetics.
Opera and technology -- History -- 19th century.
Opera and technology.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Opera -- Production and direction -- History -- 19th century.
Opera -- Production and direction.
Opera -- Stage-setting and scenery -- History -- 19th century.
Opera -- Stage-setting and scenery.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kreuzer, Gundula Katharina, 1975- Curtain, gong, steam. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] 9780520279681 (DLC) 2017052549
ISBN 9780520966550 (electronic book)
0520966554 (electronic book)
9780520279681 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)