Search for dissertations about: "opera"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the word opera.

  2. 1. Extending Opera - Artist-led Explorations in Operatic Practice through Interactivity and Electronics

    Author : Carl Unander-Scharin; Kristina Höök; Wendy Mackay; Stockholms konstnärliga högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Medieteknik; Opera; Performativa och mediala praktiker; med inriktning mot film och media koreografi opera scen; Performative and mediated practices; with specializations in choreography film and media opera performing arts; Media Technology;

    Abstract : How can we re-empower opera singers, extending their control over accompaniment and vocal expressivity? To answer this question, I have opened a novel design space, Extending Opera, consisting of interactive artist–operated tools to be used on-stage. The research has its methodological groundings in Research through Design (RtD) and Research through the Arts (RttA). READ MORE

  4. 2. Costume in the Time of Reforms : Louis-René Boquet Designing Eighteenth-Century Ballet and Opera

    Author : Petra Dotlačilová; Magnus Tessing Schneider; Lena Hammergren; Sofia Pantouvaki; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; costume; design; theatre; opera; ballet; genre; reform; eighteenth century; France; ancien régime; Louis-René Boquet; Paris Opera; Jean-Georges Noverre; aesthetics; material culture; teatervetenskap; Theatre Studies;

    Abstract : The long eighteenth century was a turbulent period in France, many crucial reforms in society, politics and art challenging the established order of the ancien régime. This battle took place on the theatrical stage as well and materialized in the approach to costume. READ MORE

  5. 3. An Operatic Game Changer : The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera

    Author : Hedvig Jalhed; John Potter; Mälardalens universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; artistic research; opera; interaction; immersion; performance; perception; game design; participation; spectatorship; aesthetics; Apollonian; Dionysian;

    Abstract : How can live-performed chamber operas be conceptualized as immersive gameswith interactive features? This artistic study has resulted in a system model throughwhich degrees of immersion may be generated and analyzed from physical, social,and psychical stimuli. A differentiation of immersive modes has been made possi-ble by the framing of opera-making as game design. READ MORE

  6. 4. Bodies to suit the music : Depictions in opera rehearsals

    Author : Agnes Löfgren; Leelo Keevallik; Angelika Linke; Emily Hofstetter; Beatrice Szczepek Reed; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Opera rehearsals; Social interaction; Multimodal interaction analysis; Ethnomethodological conversation analysis; Depictions; Multimodal gestalts; Proposals; Joint decision-making; Deontic rights; Joint activities; Co-operative action; Interactional histories; Operarepetitioner; Social interaktion; Multimodal interaktionsanalys; Etnometodologisk samtalsanalys; Gestaltningar; Multimodala gestalter; Förslag; Gemensamt beslutsfattande; Deontiska rättigheter; Gemensamma aktiviteter; Interaktionella historier;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how participants in 20 hours of video-recorded scenic opera rehearsals make use of depictions (Clark, 2016), a communicative strategy based on iconicity, to create performance bodies, i.e. what the performers should do on stage to music. READ MORE

  7. 5. Opera som teater : modern regi på Stockholmsoperan 1919-1923

    Author : Karin Helander; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kungliga Operan; Musikhistoria-- Sverige -- 1919-1923; Teaterregi-- Stockholm -- 1919-1923;

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