Opera staging as an interartistic field

dramaturgy, performance and the interpretation of visual fictions

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Keywords:

Opera, performance, staging, audiovisual

Abstract

Opera staging may constitute itself in a research field concerning the complex interplays between music and performance. From the comparative views of authors like P. Kivy, E. Cone, N. Cook and L. Treitler some fundamental assumptions on the comprehension of those complex relations are discussed.

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Author Biography

Marcus Mota, Universidade de Brasília

All his mature life was devoted to the University of Brasilia, Brazil. After undergrad in Humanities in 1988, he got a master on Theory of Literature, researching Bachelard and imagination of death in Adonias Filho's works in 1992. Marcus Mota started teaching at the Performing Arts Department of the University of Brasilia in 1995. His doctoral research was about Aeschylus and the musical dramaturgy, in 2002.
Since then, Marcus Mota has produced many papers and Theatrical Plays.
He's also Editor in Chief of Dramaturgies, a journal based on DramaLab, where he explores exchanges between music and theatre. Besides that, he is a composer and novelist.

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Published

2019-11-14

How to Cite

Mota, Marcus. 2019. “Opera Staging As an Interartistic Field: Dramaturgy, Performance and the Interpretation of Visual Fictions”. Música Em Contexto 3 (1):53-60. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/Musica/article/view/28224.

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Artigos Científicos - linha A

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