How to understand opera (module 2) 3106-ZO-KON

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Term 2025Z:

During the classes, selected topics will be discussed, including the definition of the opera genre; opera impresarios; the history of vocalists, librettists and librettos; composers as opera creators in different periods; and opera directing. Selected topics will be discussed on the basis of texts from the period and literature on the subject.

Course coordinators

Term 2025Z:

Aneta Markuszewska

Term 2024L:

Aneta Markuszewska
Szymon Paczkowski

Mode

Classroom

Bibliography

Term 2025Z:

1. Glixon Beth L. i Glixon Jonathan E., Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice, Oxford 2006.
2. Marcello B., Teatro alla moda, Venezia 1720.
3. Markuszewska A., Kastrat. Głos Rzymu, w: W cieniu korony. Muzyka w polityce Jakuba III Stuarta i jego żony Marii Klementyny Sobieskiej w Rzymie (1719-1735), Warszawa 2024.
4. Potter J., Sorrel N., Historia śpiewu, tłum. K. Wiwer, Kraków 2021.
5. Rutherford S., The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930, Cambridge 2006.
6.Szarota P., Markuszewska A., Felicita Vestvali: Rebellious Prima Donna, Charismatic Actor, and LGBTQ Icon, w: „Journal of Musicological Research” 2024 nr 4.
Wywiad z Małgorzatą Komorowską o problemach reżyserii operowej, Teatr dla Was 2014.