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A Study on the Characterization of Lucy in Menotti¡¦s ¡§The Telephone¡¨

Gian-Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) is one of America¡¦s most distinguished contemporary opera composers. He composed twenty-seven operas. The telephone is a one act play which was composed in 1947 as a curtain raiser for The Medium. The Telephone is his shortest opera which only takes 25 minutes to perform. Menotti wrote all the text in this opera himself. Although The Telephone is short, the structure is complete. It¡¦s one of Menotti's greatest popular operas.
The main character of The Telephone, Lucy, is a soprano. The success of Lucy¡¦s performance is the key to success of the whole opera. Because of the importance of "Lucy", I select "Lucy" as a research topic of the article. Except the preface, my essay contains four main sections: the biography of Menotti and the main operatic works of Menotti, textual analysis of Menotti¡¦s The Telephone and the characterization of Lucy, and the dramaturgy of Lucy. The purpose of this study is to explore how Menotti made use of music device to express the effects and atmosphere in theater, how to create emotional changes of Lucy, and expect to reinforcing profundity in performance.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0624112-230904
Date24 June 2012
CreatorsWang, Hsin-Yi
ContributorsJung-Ying Li, Wang-Sue Wang, Wei-fang Yin
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0624112-230904
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