The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: On the Functional Approach to Translating Libretti for Modernised Opera Productions by Aleksandra Ożarowska

“…The data for the present study come from the most reputable opera houses, for example the Metropolitan Opera House or Royal Opera House, as they are known for providing their audiences with high-quality libretti translations.…”
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The Emperor Jones de Louis Gruenberg : le long voyage au cœur/corps de l’Autre race by Benoît Depardieu

“…On January 7, 1933, two years before Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Emperor Jones, composed by Louis Gruenberg in 1931, had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Although Gruenberg’s opera looks like a mere musical adaptation of O’Neill’s acclaimed play, first performed in 1920, some alterations made by the composer allow to question its ambivalent reception by the audience and the critics. …”
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Nos Kentridge’a by Marcin Giżycki

“… Autor zaczyna swoje rozważania od porównania Nosa Gogola z operą Dymitra Szostakowicza według tej sztuki, wystawioną w Metropolitan Opera w Nowym Jorku Przypomnienie, że biograf kompozytora – Sołomon Wołkow jako pierwszy zobaczył w Nosie Szostakowicza dzieło autobiograficzne, staje się zaś okazją do nakreślenia zawiłości artystycznych losów Szostakowicza. …”
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De David Belasco à Giacomo Puccini : La Fanciulla del West, premier opéra « américain » by Walter Zidaric

“…This work, specially composed for the American stage, which had its world premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in December 1910, paved the way for American composers who increasingly focused on American History in their quest for a “national” opera. …”
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Electronic delivery of alternative contents in cinemas before the digital era: the case of theater television in the US exhibition market in the 1940s and 1950s by Kira Kitsopanidou

“…On december, the opera Carmen was telecasted from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to 31 theaters in 26 cities. …”
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