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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 …
La Voix Humaine: A Technology Time Warp, Whitney Myers
La Voix Humaine: A Technology Time Warp, Whitney Myers
Theses and Dissertations--Music
In 1959 French composer Francis Poulenc composed the opera La Voix humaine based on Jean Cocteau’s original play (1928). La Voix humaine is a one-act opera for soprano. The main character, Elle, spends the opera on the phone with her ex-lover who is marrying another the next day. Many musicians believe this opera is difficult or impossible to update, due to the use of the telephone and its dated operator system, which is a large aspect of the action and drama.
This document provides the reader with a new interpretation of the opera with modern technology. Chapter One begins with …