Resisting Rossini, or Marlon Brando plays Figaro

Here, Smart focuses on an apparent stepchild of revisionist Regie: musical repetition and dramatic stasis, she holds, are key challenges that Gioacchino Rossini's works have been posing to the later 20th-century stage and its appetite for psychological realism. Instead of Regie theater readings...

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Published in:The Opera quarterly 2011-09, Vol.27 (2-3), p.153-178
Main Author: Smart, Mary Ann
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Composers
Musical criticism
Opera
Rossini, Gioacchino (1792-1868)
Theater criticism
Theater studies
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Summary:Here, Smart focuses on an apparent stepchild of revisionist Regie: musical repetition and dramatic stasis, she holds, are key challenges that Gioacchino Rossini's works have been posing to the later 20th-century stage and its appetite for psychological realism. Instead of Regie theater readings, she detects differences of mise-en-scene between theater and studio productions as well as pervasive influences of cinematic naturalism. Ultimately, she suggests that today's (mediatized) proliferation of productions may reveal new pockets of meaning in people's seemingly so well-known works and their renditions.
ISSN:0736-0053
1476-2870
DOI:10.1093/oq/kbr017