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Robert Nelson's A Room With A View: The Creation Of A Contemporary Opera, Marcello Cormio
Robert Nelson's A Room With A View: The Creation Of A Contemporary Opera, Marcello Cormio
Theses and Dissertations--Music
My recent engagement as music director and conductor of Robert Nelson’s A Room with a View (1992, rev. 2004) has offered me the valuable opportunity to work on an opera side by side with its composer. The purpose of this dissertation is to reconstruct the various stages of the process of creation, interpretation, and performance of a contemporary opera, addressing aspects of the collaboration between the composer and the conductor.
The methodology used in my research is based primarily on direct observation and interview. The investigation is conducted from the perspective of a “participant-observer,” due to my personal involvement in …