Learning on ScreenRevolution and Rebirth: Modern Theatrical Reform and Its Debt to Antiquity
- Synopsis
- The evolution of modern theatrical production based on Wagner’s ideal of the ‘total work of art’. Starting with Wagner’s reform of opera, it details the ideas of Adolphe Appia, who first formulated a theory of production with movement, music, lighting, and stage setting all integrated to create a unified effect. Appia’s designs are used to show how stagecraft acquired an entirely new basis; one still determing production today. To illustrate this, the video uses excerpts from a reconstruction of an epoch-making staging of Gluck’s opera ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ which Appia and Emile Jaques-Dalcroze presented in 1913, and which many commentators believe marked the birth of the modern stage.
- Series
- Ancient Theatre and Its Legacy, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.
- Year of production
- 198
- Availability
- Sale; £38.00 (inc p&p + VAT)
- Documentation
- Accompanying notes
- Subjects
- Classical studies; Drama
- Keywords
- drama - classical; drama production; opera; theatre history
Production Company
Sponsor
Distributor
- Name
Any Other Business
- Phone
- 01926 423782
- Fax
- 01926 423782
- Address
- 6 Regency House
Newbold Terrace
Leamington Spa CV32 4HD - Notes
- See: Any Other Business
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