Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 2007

Although the opera paraphrase was once a cornerstone of the virtuoso pianist's repertoire, as a genre it has traditionally been neglected by a scholarship which prioritizes authenticity and original compositional thought. By approaching this repertoire from a critical standpoint concerned with the production of narrative, this thesis demonstrates the true value of the paraphrase. A review of the current literature on narrative, gesture, and the paraphrase reveals major gaps in the state of research, and this thesis addresses these issues by presenting analyses of several works, in both printed and performed forms. The chapter “Settling the Score” interrogates the score, and argues that through their choice, ordering, and setting of operatic themes in a paraphrase, composers can alter or recreate the narrative of the source opera. By analyzing and comparing by reading the narrative schemes of seven different paraphrases based on Mozart's Don Giovanni, the chapter highlights the agency of the arranger in the production of narrative. The next chapter, entitled “Playing the Part,” suggests that the creation of narrative also extends beyond the work of the composer to encompass the role of the performer. By comparing the use of physical gestures in two video-recorded performances of Liszt's paraphrase Réminiscences de Don Juan, the thesis postulates that a pianist's gestures can influence the audience's perception of narrative. In an attempt to centralize the voice of the performer, the chapter also includes reflective analysis of the author's own performances of Liszt's paraphrase. By employing analytical methods which focus on the production of musical narrative, this thesis demonstrates that the paraphrase is worthy of greater attention, both in scholarship and performance.

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Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet (Concerto a Tromba principale) is overtly operatic and is stylistically reminiscent of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Using the methodology of Leonard Ratner and Wye J. Allanbrook, it is possible to explore gesture and rhetoric in Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet and Mozart's Don Giovanni, and achieve a deeper understanding of the stylistic similarities shared between the two works. In the third movement, dance is the most significant link to Don Giovanni. In the second movement, Hummel alternates between the emotions of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio as they appear in act 1, scene 13. The first movement makes extensive use of contrasting topics identified with buffa and seria characters to advance the musical narrative. Comparing Hummel's concerto and Mozart's opera is a hermeneutical approach that illuminates several performance practice implications. Knowing the expressive similarities and rhetorical strategies common to both works clarifies several issues, such as tempo, ornamentation, and above all, expression. Though Mozart's Don Giovanni and Hummel's Concerto for Trumpet are unequal in significance, it would be valuable to any interpretation of Hummel's concerto if the performer and audience acknowledge that the work is rhetorically and stylistically similar to Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Type de dépôt #1 (version complète) / Ce mémoire porte sur la réactualisation de l’opéra d’un point de vue féministe en s’appuyant sur l’exemple de la mise en scène de Don Giovanni (1787-1788) de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Cette étude montre comment il est possible, en s’appuyant sur les outils de l’analyse musicale et littéraire, de créer une mise en scène qui respecte les principales caractéristiques du livret et de la partition – conservant ainsi ce que Jean-Jacques Nattiez appelle des « fidélités locales » – tout en permettant au public d’aujourd’hui de s’identifier à une œuvre composée il y a plus de deux siècles, et de s’y projeter. Pour ce faire, l’enjeu est de proposer une adaptation de l’opéra qui tient compte du contexte politique et social actuel, axé ici sur le féminisme. Prenant pour exemples les trois personnages féminins de Don Giovanni, le mémoire est construit sous la forme d’un triptyque, par ordre chronologique d’apparition des personnages : Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina. Ainsi, il sera possible d’établir un point de vue s’apparentant au female gaze dans cet opéra, jusqu’ici majoritairement interprété par le biais du male gazing (regard masculin). Le premier chapitre propose donc l’analyse de deux airs phares du personnage de Donna Anna. Cherchant à l’abstraire de l’entité quasi fusionnelle qu’elle constitue avec son fiancé Don Ottavio, l’analyse harmonique et littéraire s’intéresse aux passages où Donna Anna est susceptible d’affirmer son indépendance. L’analyse de ces mêmes scènes dans deux mises en scènes récentes de l’œuvre vise ensuite à vérifier si les caractéristiques qui ressortent de cette analyse sont mises en valeur dans les productions. Enfin, dans un processus s’apparentant à la recherche-création, je propose pour les passages étudiés des avenues de mise en scène qui tiennent compte des analyses effectuées dans les premières parties du chapitre. Les deux autres personnages féminins sont abordés suivant le même procédé, cherchant d’un côté à dé-ridiculiser celui de Donna Elvira – trop souvent considérée comme « hystérique » – et, de l’autre, à rendre au personnage de Zerlina son côté stratège, habituellement camouflé dans les productions « traditionnelles » où la jeune femme n’est représentée que par son côté paysan. / This thesis explores the feminist actualization of opera, using Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) Don Giovanni (1787-1788) as a case study. This study shows how it is possible, by using musical and literary analytical tools, to create a performance that respects the main characteristics of the libretto and the score—thus preserving what Jean-Jacques Nattiez calls “local loyalties”—while allowing today’s audience to identify with a work composed over two centuries ago. To do so, I propose an adaptation of the opera that takes into account the current political and social context, focused here on feminism. Taking as examples the three female characters of Don Giovanni (Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Zerlina), the thesis is built as a triptych in which the characters are studied in the chronological order of their apparition. The approach is based on a female gaze point of view, contrasting with the male gazing interpretation which has been dominant in the operatic world until now. The first chapter analyses two major arias of Donna Anna. In order to free her from the almost fusional entity she forms with her fiancé Don Ottavio, the harmonic and literary analysis centers around passages where she is most likely to show independence. The analysis of these same scenes in two recent stagings of the work then aim to verify whether the characteristics that emerge from this analysis are highlighted in the productions. Finally, in a process of research-creation, I propose staging directions for the same passages that take into account the findings made throughout the chapter. The two other female characters are approached following the same process, seeking on the one hand to de-ridiculize the character of Donna Elvira—too often considered “hysterical” —and, on the other hand, to highlight Zerlina’s sense of strategy, which is usually downplayed in “traditional” productions in which the young woman is solely represented by her peasant character.

Le film d’opéra correspond à la rencontre de deux formes d’art ayant chacune ses propres règles de mise en scène. Il nécessite de concilier les exigences de l’opéra et celles du cinéma, mais prétend aussi favoriser leur enrichissement mutuel. Notre réflexion porte sur la pertinence, du point de vue créatif, de cette rencontre. Elle vise à mettre en évidence les risques, les enjeux et les intérêts artistiques du film d’opéra. Le corpus revêt une dimension franco-italienne : il se compose de cinq films produits par Daniel Toscan du Plantier (Don Giovanni de Joseph Losey, Carmen de Francesco Rosi, La Bohème de Luigi Comencini, Madame Butterfly de Frédéric Mitterrand, Tosca de Benoît Jacquot) et de deux autres, non produits par lui : La Traviata et Otello de Franco Zeffirelli, qui appartiennent à cette même « vague » du film d’opéra. L’étude s’intéresse tout d’abord à la politique culturelle du producteur Daniel Toscan du Plantier, grâce à qui ce genre cinématographique s’est développé de façon significative dans les années 1980, afin de définir le contexte de création de ses films, de comprendre son engagement en faveur de ce genre artistique et son intérêt tout particulier pour la culture italienne. Notre analyse tend par la suite à évaluer les difficultés techniques ainsi que les libertés créatives qu’engendre le passage à l’écran. L’écriture cinématographique de l’opéra implique des concessions sur le plan de la réalisation et nécessite un positionnement entre les deux esthétiques, mais elle permet aussi une lecture nouvelle et originale de l’opéra. Nous évaluons à la fois les exigences résultant de l’articulation opéra-cinéma et les solutions apportées par les réalisateurs pour répondre à ces contraintes, bien souvent musicales. La réflexion se concentre dans la seconde partie sur l’aboutissement de cette union, tout d’abord à travers l’analyse de l’interprétation visuelle de la musique fournie par les réalisateurs pour chacun des films du corpus, selon une approche thématique. Elle montre comment l’image mobile transcrit la musique, comment l’écriture cinématographique traduit visuellement la partition et peut accroître la dimension émotive. Enfin, elle s’intéresse à la réception de ces films en France et en Italie, en vue de mesurer l’accueil reçu par chacun auprès de la critique, partagée entre démocratisation de l’opéra et vulgarisation de l’art lyrique. / The "opera film" corresponds to the encounter between two art forms envolving specific staging rules. It combines the requirements of opera and cinema alike whilst endeavouring to promote their mutual enrichment. In this dissertation I analyse the relevance of this encounter from a creative point of view. I intend to highlight the risks, stakes and artistic appropriateness of the opera film. The body of works has a Franco-italian dimension: it includes five films produced by Daniel Toscan du Plantier (Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni, Francesco Rosi's Carmen, Luigi Comencini's La Bohème, Frédéric Mitterrand's Madama Butterfly and Benoît Jacquot's Tosca) as well as two other films which he did not produced: La Traviata and Otello, by Franco Zeffirelli, also belong to this opera film "wave". First of all, I examine Daniel Toscan du Plantier's cultural policy as a producer. Indeed, it was thanks to him that this cinematic genre flourished significantly in the 1980s. I aim to define the creative context of these films and to understand his commitment towards their promotion as well as his genuine interest for Italian culture. I then move on to analysing the technical difficulties as well as the creative licence which results from screen adaptation. On the one hand, the cinematographic writing of opera implies concessions in staging and requires a position be taken in respect of aesthetics, cinematographic and opera. On the other hand, it also triggers a new and original reading of opera. I assess the requirements which result from the opera-cinema articulation and the solutions, often musical, proposed by films directors confronted to these constraints. In Part II I focus on the achievements of this union, first by thematically analysing each director's the visual interpretation of music provided in the films included in the body of works. I argue that the moving image transcribes music, that cinematographic writing translates the music score visually and that it can enhance the emotional dimension. Finally, I examine the response to these films in France and in Italy, especially through the critics divided between the democratisation of opera and the vulgarisation of lyric art.

In my investigation I concentrate specifically on cases of children from three children{\crq}s homes in Italy and Czech republic (Casa del bambino PIO XII., private children{\crq}s home Marketa and Church children{\crq}s home Emanuel). In these homes they use preventative bahaviour system founded by Don Giovanni Bosco who was the Italian priest and educator who lived in the 19 century and he founded the work which was dedicated to the poor young people without their home in Turin.The intention of Don Giovanni Bosco was to help to give the right direction to young people.This system has three basic pillars which are reason, kidness and religion. His system demands from the educator constant presence with the children and education with the example of yourself.The preventative behaviour system of Salesiani and its tradition is worth attention for the the prevention of social {--} pathological phenomena.

This dissertation investigates how W. A. Mozart applies the concept of key characteristics—the affective properties of each tonality—as discussed by three of his contemporaries, Johann Mattheson, C.F.D. Schubart and G.J. Vogler, to four soubrette and four prima donna characters from four of his late Italian operas: La Contessa and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro; Donna Anna and Zerlina in Don Giovanni; Fiordiligi and Despina in Così fan tutte; Vitellia and Servilia in La clemenza di Tito. The analytical method of this dissertation provides a hermeneutical tool to search for meanings in Mozart's music. The application compares the libretto text and its corresponding tonal center with the description of key characteristics on a micro level, to reveal significant dramatic and practical implications from Mozart's key usage in his operas.

After the premiere of Don Giovanni in Prague, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte brought their opera to Vienna on May 7, 1788. One point of interest in the Viennese version of the score is the added duet “Per queste tue manine.” In this duet, the enraged Zerlina overpowers the bewildered servant Leporello with a handkerchief, a razor, and passion. She constrains the floundering fool and punishes him for his misconduct. In most modern performances, companies look no further than the Prague version of the score. Additionally, singers often portray Zerlina as either a mischievous temptress or a virginal peasant girl. Since modern opera companies often dismiss the Viennese score of Don Giovanni as insignificant and scholars often deem the role of Zerlina as simplistic, a holistic analysis of the role of Zerlina is needed. Viewing the interpretations of her character by Kristi Brown-Montesano and Wye Jamison Allanbrook through the lens of eighteenth-century gender politics and my own musical and literary interpretations results in a more complete understanding of the peasant girl. Through an analysis of the Viennese version of Zerlina’s character, I contend that Zerlina functions as a mirror-image foil to Don Giovanni. As Zerlina gains autonomy through the control of her own body, the Don loses his power over others and eventually his own life. This multi-dimensional understanding of Zerlina’s character is only possible if “Per queste tue manine” is taken into consideration.