A New Philosophy of Opera [Paperback]

[Sharon] challenges the status quo and proposes radical new ways to present operas new and old. Expect insight, originality and some contentious views that will stimulate debate. Richard Fairman, [Sharon] challenges the status quo and proposes radical new ways to present operas new and old. Expect insight, originality and some contentious views that will stimulate debate. Persuasively argued and filled with lively and approachable details, Yuval Sharons Thought-provoking...an indispensable handbook for making opera matter in the 21st century. There is no doubt that Sharon has a brilliant and inquiring mind, and this book gives ample evidence that he knows how to construct his case convincingly and with care...Yuval Sharon has written a manifesto that is by turns polemical, prophetic, poetic, prescriptive, and practical. All of it bespeaks a brain that is constantly seeking to tease out a particular thread of artistic truth. Part cultural history, part aesthetic manifesto, its a shrewdly provocative book that envisions a future for the art form profoundly rooted in a radical past. And its inextricable from Sharons own experience with opera, both as an audience member and as a creator. [I]n this treatise for the artform...Sharon is most compelling when writing from personal experience, particularly when highlighting the differences between opera in Germany and the US. ...a manifesto for the future of the art form. Detroit Opera artistic director Yuval Sharon has a celebrated history of reinventing opera. He shares his views on opera as a living, breathing, evolving art form in There's no doubting the deep personal experience underlying [Sharons] observations, which include frequent reflections on opera's history, marshaling evidence to demonstrate what has and has not worked in the development of this most exotic and, Sharon argues, collaborative form of both art and entertainment. He offers his analyses and surprisingly few prescriptions as a prolegomlƒ³