Oranges in Leningrad / Kevin Bartig. Introduction / Dassia N. Posner, Kevin Bartig, Maria de Simone -- The opera. Reflective analysis of the fairy tale "The love of three oranges" / Carlo Gozzi, Maria de Simone (translator) -- The love of three oranges, Venice 1761 : a theatrical provocation / Alberto Beniscelli -- A short note on the first Sacchi Company / Giulietta Bazoli -- Gozzi's The love of three oranges : a new horizon of expectations / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Carlo Gozzi's reactionary imagination / Ted Emery -- A cultural pastiche of fantasy, satire, and citrus : Gozzi's The love of three oranges in its German afterlife / Natalya Baldyga -- The divertissement. Love for three oranges : a divertissement in twelve scenes, a prologue, an epilogue, and three interludes / Konstantin Vogak, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vladimir Soloviev, Dassia N. Posner (translator) -- Carlo Gozzi in The journal of Doctor Dapertutto / Raissa Raskina -- Meyerhold and the Russian commedia dell'arte myth / Vadim Shcherbakov -- The Miklashevsky connection / Laurence Senelick -- From divertissement to opera : two Russian Oranges / Julia Galanina -- The opera. Love for three oranges / Sergei Prokofiev, Kevin Bartig (ed.) -- Tsardom and buttocks : from empress Anna to Prokofiev's Fata Morgana / Inna Naroditskaya -- Notes on the musical parody in Prokofiev's Three oranges / Natalia Savkina -- Notes on the notes / Simon A. Morrison -- Boris Anisfeld, an alchemist of color / John E. Bowlt -- Oranges in Leningrad / Kevin Bartig.
Summary:
"In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges--one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera--premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte-infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we understand the full significance of their intertwined lineage. With contributions from 17 distinguished scholars in theater, art history, Italian, Slavic Studies, and musicology, Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev illuminates the historical development of modernism in the arts, the ways in which commedia dell'arte's self-referential and improvisatory elements have inspired theatre and music innovations, and how polemical playfulness informs creation. A resource for scholars and theater lovers alike, this collection of essays, paired with new translations of Love for Three Oranges, charts the transformations and transpositions that this fantastical tale underwent to provoke theatrical revolutions that still reverberate today"-- Provided by publisher.
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