Feasting & Fasting in Opera
Title | Feasting & Fasting in Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Pierpaolo Polzonetti |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2021-11-11 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 022680500X |
Feasting and Fasting in Operashows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, opera scholar Pierpaolo Polzonetti explores how convivial culture shaped the birth of opera and opera-going rituals until the mid-nineteenth century, when eating and drinking at the opera house were still common. Through analyses of convivial scenes in operas, the book also shows how the consumption of food and drink, and sharing or the refusal to do so, define characters’ identity and relationships. Feasting and Fasting in Opera moves chronologically from around 1480 to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Wagner’s operatic reforms banished refreshments during the performance and mandated a darkened auditorium and absorbed listening. The book focuses on questions of comedy, pleasure, embodiment, and indulgence—looking at fasting, poisoning, food disorders, body types, diet, and social, ethnic, and gender identities—in both tragic and comic operas from Monteverdi to Puccini. Polzonetti also sheds new light on the diet Maria Callas underwent in preparation for her famous performance as Violetta, the consumptive heroine of Verdi’s La traviata. Neither food lovers nor opera scholars will want to miss Polzonetti’s page-turning and imaginative book.
Feast, Fast or Famine
Title | Feast, Fast or Famine PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Mayer |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004344853 |
In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The theme was food and drink in Byzantium. Published selectively in the present volume, the papers of the conference are augmented by contributions from international scholars. While some papers address the use of food directly (children's diet, fasting) or tangentially (in love spells), or discuss philosophical approaches towards food (vegetarianism), other papers in this volume examine the topic from another perspective: the role and perception of food and drink - and their consumption - in society. Yet others examine issues of supply (military logistics) and the role it played in shaping Byzantium. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of food, in late antique and Byzantine society, in Byzantine rhetoric, in magic in late antiquity and in the Jews in early Byzantium.
Food and Celebration: From Fasting to Feasting
Title | Food and Celebration: From Fasting to Feasting PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Lysaght |
Publisher | Založba ZRC |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 2002-06-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9616358545 |
Hrana in pijača imata ob praznikih v vseh družbenih skupinah pomembno vlogo. Kaj v različnih kulturah določa, kakšna je praznična prehranač Kakšen je odnos med praznično in vsakdanjo prehranoč Kako se praznične jedi in pijače spreminjajo v času in različnih družbenih okoljihč Kakšen je pomen posameznih prazničnih jedi in jedilnih obrokovč Na ta in podobna vprašanja skuša odgovoriti 39 prispevkov.
Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
Title | Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Pierpaolo Polzonetti |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2011-03-17 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0521897084 |
Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Title | Holy Feast and Holy Fast PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Walker Bynum |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 1988-01-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520908783 |
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.
Giuseppe Verdi
Title | Giuseppe Verdi PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory W. Harwood |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 466 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1136317236 |
This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.
The Moveable Feasts, Fasts, and Other Annual Observances of the Catholic Church
Title | The Moveable Feasts, Fasts, and Other Annual Observances of the Catholic Church PDF eBook |
Author | Alban Butler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 546 |
Release | 1775 |
Genre | Church year |
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