Performing Arts and Technical Issues

Hardback, 480 pages, Size:215 x 260 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, Language(s):English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503597393. Summary This volume addresses multiple facets of the artistic expression of a live performance, with a particular focus on the technical issues, people, and institutions related to it. Dance, musical theatre, mime, puppetry, and other performing arts are investigated through the lens of their various components, as well as their protagonists ? impresarios, companies, designers, conductors and directors. Specific sections of the book are devoted to lighting, scenography and costume design, staging, but also on circus, puppetry, dance, and entertainers. A number of articles are dedicated to single artists: Diaghilev, Massenet, Pacini, Poulenc, Verdi, and Wagner. With contributions by (in alphabetical order): Mathias Auclair, Rapha l Bortolotti, Michael Burden, Maria Birbili, Simone Ciolfi, Francesc Cortes, Mar a Encina Cortizo, Nathalie Coutelet, Petra Dotlacilova, Catrina Flint, Federico Gon, Vesa Kurkela, J rgen Maehder, Scott Palmer, Bertrand Porot, Manuela Rita, Ram n Sobrino, Valeriya Zharkova. TABLE OF CONTENTS Roberto Illiano Preface Performing Arts: Puppetry, Circus, Dance, Entertainers Catrina Flint de M dicis From Provence to Montmartre: Setting the Stage for Maurice Bouchor's Little Wooden Actors Bertrand Porot Les jeux des foires au xviiie si cle: les spectacles d'acrobate Nathalie Coutelet Les pantomimes nautiques du Nouveau-Cirque ou les pouvoirs spectaculaires de l'eau Mathias Auclair Les f tes galantes 1923 : Les Biches et le festival fran ais des Ballets russes Vesa Kurkela Miscellany and the Great Split: Itinerant Entertainers in 19th-Century Helsinki Technical Issues: Stage Lighting Scott Palmer A Staging Revolution through Light and Music: Adolphe Appia, Wagner and Hugo B hr Mar a Encina Cortizo - Ram n Sobrino Luis Par s, director de escena en el Teatro Real de Madrid: de la escenograf a iluminada a la creaci n de una po tica de la luz escenogr fica (1896-1907) Francesc Cort s Los proyectos para una renovaci n esc nica del G. T. del Liceu en el cambio de siglo (xix-xx): mirando al futuro J rgen Maehder The Early History of Laser Rays on the Opera Stage: Munich - London - Geneva - (Paris) - Bayreuth Scenography and Costumes Design Rapha l Bortolotti Les d cors et machines originaux du th tre de Feltre: Enjeux techniques d'une sc ne de province dans l'Italie du xix me si cle Valeriya Zharkova Principles of Creating a Scenic Image in the Op ra-Comique. Theatre in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century Federico Gon ?I am satisfied that what is written will be done simply and exactely : Reflections on inventing the truth in Rigoletto's Staging Petra Dotla?ilov Visible and Invisible Hands: Costume-Making Practices of Italian Music Theatre in the Early Modern Era Staging Simone Ciolfi 'Verisimilitude', 'Simplicity', 'Naturalness': Cultural Background and Performance Strategies of Eighteenth-century Cantata Recitatives Michael Burden Put upon the stage as no opera I have ever seen for truth : The London Staging of Pacini's Saffo in 1843 Manuela Rita Le disposizioni sceniche per Il re di Lahore ed Erodiade: La prassi della messinscena teatrale nel contesto delle relazioni Italia-Francia nella Terza Repubblica Maria Birbili Multimediality, Special Effects, and Precursory Film Techniques in the Staging of French grand op ra: The Composer as a Stage Director Abstracts and Biographies Appendix Index of Names