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Opera for Everyone Megan Steigerwald Ille

Opera for Everyone By Megan Steigerwald Ille

Opera for Everyone by Megan Steigerwald Ille


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Through ethnographic work with The Industrys creators and performers, and examination of the companys first decade of work, this book reveals how The Industry provides both a roadmap and boundary line for experimental and traditional companies trying to find new ways to approach operatic performance in the twenty-first century United States.

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Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age by Megan Steigerwald Ille

Opera for Everyone: The Industrys 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. This work understands The Industrys 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 companys path from Crescent City (2012), the companys first production, to Sweet Land (2020), the companys final production before switching to a new production model. Steigerwald Ille argues that by moving opera outside of the opera house, The Industrys productions expose the economic and aesthetic structures key to the circulation of operatic performance at the same time that they deploy opera as a tool for digital listening, community engagement, popular entertainment, and commentary on systemic racism and settler colonialism. Through ethnographic work with The Industrys creators and performers, and close examination of the companys first decade of work, this book reveals how The Industry paradoxically provides both a roadmap and boundary line for experimental and traditional companies trying to find new ways to approach operatic performance in the twenty-first century United States.

Opera for Everyone Reviews

Opera for Everyone is a substantive, enlightening, and important work of scholarship that lays the groundwork for further research in the lively field of opera studies. In her examination of The Industry, Steigerwald Ille draws on a multiplicity of voicesa strategy that complements the multivalent complexity of operaand her sincere, thoughtful engagement with the ethics of contemporary opera production offers an excellent model for the study of performing arts in the twenty-first century. Ryan Ebright, Bowling Green State University

Compared to how abundantly pieces of contemporary musical theatre and opera are present on all kinds of scenes, the literature about this field is still meager. Opera For Everyone is extremely welcome as it illuminates the world and poetics of contemporary opera and it turns this interest into a dynamic book. Jelena Novak, CESEM (Center for Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music), FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

About Megan Steigerwald Ille

Megan Steigerwald Ille is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Introduction
  • From Recession to Pandemic: Operatic Contexts
  • Yuval Sharon and The Industry
  • Methods: Precarity, Perspectives, and Critique
  • Plan of Book
  • Chapter 1: Opera as Mobile Music: Invisible Cities
  • Introduction
  • Experiencing Mediated Performance: Logistics
  • Interpretive Ambiguity, Audience Agency
  • Performance History and Digital Adaptation
  • Writing for Headphones: Making Sound Design Visible
  • New Rules of Spectatorship: Listening to Invisible Cities
  • Audile Techniques and Consumerism
  • Wagners Invisible Theater, Brechts headphones?
  • Convention or Experimentation?
  • Conclusions: Contradictory Spectatorships and the Operatic Genre
  • Chapter 2: Operatic Economics: Liveness and Labor in Hopscotch
  • Introduction
  • Operatic Tradition on Wheels: The Production
  • Fractured Logistics
  • Hybrid Spectatorships
  • The Labor of the Live
  • Mediated Entertainment and Operatic Distance
  • Look at Me! Isolation in Digital Performance
  • Curation and Commodification
  • Mediating Intimacy and Isolation
  • Performers, Participants, and Power
  • Participating in Precarity
  • Commodities and Conclusions
  • Chapter 3: Experiments with Institutionality: Galileo, War of the Worlds, and ATLAS
  • Introduction
  • Precarities and Production: Galileo and War of the Worlds
  • Traditional Structures and Closed Systems
  • Closed Institutional Precedents and Contemporary Manifestations
  • New Approaches to Political Economy: Open Models of Production
  • Open Institutional Lineages: Economic and Experimental Tensions
  • War of the Institutional Frameworks?
  • Coda: ATLAS
  • Chapter 4: What you remember doesnt matter: Toward an Anti-Colonial Opera
  • Introduction
  • Colonizer Opera
  • New Models of Collaboration
  • Experimenting with Form: From Workshop to Film
  • Representing Individuals, Rejecting Tokenism, Re-envisioning Opera
  • Moving Beyond Colonial Collaboration: Rehearsals
  • Moving Beyond Colonial Collaboration: Performer Composition
  • If youre going to change opera, you have to change it: Lingering Colonial Hierarchies
  • Conclusion: Colonial Hauntings, Anti-Colonial Ambiguities
  • Epilogue
  • Introduction
  • Closing the Curtain on Sweet Land: March-November 2020
  • The Future of Opera for Everyone and The Industrys Artistic Director Collective
  • Everyones Opera

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Opera for Everyone: The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age by Megan Steigerwald Ille
New
Paperback
The University of Michigan Press
2024-04-30
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