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For many instructors today, teaching canonical dramatic repertoire can be a fraught proposition: from Don Giovanni to South Pacific, key works in the history of opera and musical theater present challenges related to gender, race, colonialism, class and more. Teaching Canonic Opera and Musical Theater with Intention: A Teacher's Guide offers instructors a toolkit with which to productively confront the canon, directly engaging in the difficult conversations this repertoire can prompt. Informed by evidence from contemporary and historical context, librettos, and production history, instructors will be able to confidently help students consider best practices for the future. This book presents...
Opera for Everyone: The Industry’s Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age draws on seven years of multi-sited ethnography to examine the acclaimed experimental productions of Los Angeles-based opera company The Industry. Steigerwald Ille understands The Industry’s productions as part of an emerging wave of U.S. operas that integrate new media and interactive performance through means such as site-specificity and simulcast video, and then traces the company’s path from Crescent City (2012), the company’s first production, to Sweet Land (2020), the company’s final production before switching to a new production model. Steigerwald Ille argues that by moving opera outside o...
Le Morte d'Mortimer is an intriguing blend of fact and fiction, leading to mystery. When Paul Barclay is commissioned to write a newspaper feature about Arthur Mortimer, a chain of events is triggered that changes the lives of all the key characters. In unveiling Mortimer he discovers the events that have surrounded the life of a remarkable old man. At first uncertain as to whether or not there is a story at all, Barclay is drawn into a world that involves intellectual game playing, discoveries, twists and turns. Blair Edgar has put together an intriguing cast of high powered highly intelligent characters that gather around Mortimer in a story filled with constant surprises, wit and wisdom. The dialogue is loaded with imagery that evokes the life of an extraordinary old man and those who surround him.
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"She could drown in those eyes...and what a way to go." When Kristy Vos runs into her brother's best friend, Ashton Klink, at a hometown wedding, something she never thought possible now seems probable. Because he's looking at her. Like that. But Kristy craves control, and Ashton's deploying in two weeks. With their hearts teetering on the brink of falling, Kristy and Ashton have to make a choice: go their separate ways to avoid potential heartache, or take a chance on love and each other. A low-angst, sweet love story that might just make you kick your feet with glee. Fans of... - the brother's best friend trope - charming, small towns - fun family dynamics ...will adore Choosing Love. ♥ Each feel-good book in the Mapleton series is a clean and wholesome, standalone read. The events in Choosing Love take place about five years before those in Love at On Deck Café and the rest of the series, but the titles can be read in any order. ♥
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