Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare : Verdi’s
Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres

C 2022

Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare : Verdi’s Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka

Basic information

Original name

Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare : Verdi’s Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres

Authors

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Oxford, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, p. 894-925, 32 pp. Oxford Handbooks, 2022

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00125408

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-0-19-094514-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945145.013.33

Keywords in English

Giuseppe Verdi; Macbeth; Otello; opera; scenography; metaphor; stage metaphor

Abstract

V originále

This chapter considers both the ways of transforming Shakespeare’s plays into opera librettos, and the staging practice of particular Shakespearean operas. It focuses on staging of two operas based on Shakespeare’s plays composed by Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth and Otello. The topic is treated with special reference to operatic scenography, especially regarding the issue of creating innovative audio-visual metaphors on stage. One of the essential questions may be summarized as follows: how are these (stage) metaphors rooted in Shakespeare’s plays as such? In the investigation of this topic, many specific productions of Shakespearean operas are included, both from the Czech Republic (and former Czechoslovakia, especially from the State Theatre in Brno) and from prominent world opera houses. The chapter’s central aim is to consider what operas based on Shakespeare’s plays bring to the theatrical stage, from the point of view of (for example) theatrical aesthetics and semantics, especially in the area of scenography – which is treated here not just as a visual parameter, but as an audio-visual artistic discipline.

Links

MUNI/A/1020/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Výzkum divadelní kultury v interdisciplinárních přesazích (Acronym: DIVKULT)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

MUNI/21/HAV/2019, interní kód MU

Name: Inscenace shakespearovských oper G. Verdiho v Brně (Acronym: SHA-VER)

Investor: Masaryk University

Citovat

HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare : Verdi’s Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres. In Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, p. 894-925. Oxford Handbooks. ISBN 978-0-19-094514-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945145.013.33.

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HAVLÍČKOVÁ KYSOVÁ, Šárka. Audio-visual Metaphors in Operatic Shakespeare : Verdi’s Macbeth and Otello in Czech Theatres. In Christopher R. Wilson and Mervyn Cooke. \textit{The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music}. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, p.~894-925. Oxford Handbooks. ISBN~978-0-19-094514-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945145.013.33.

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