Give Us This Day Our Daily Belcanto: Ideas, Memos and Notes about Old-New Operas, 2017–2019 Cover Image

Mindennapi belcantónkat add meg nekünk ma. Futamok, feljegyzések régi-új operákról, 2017-2019
Give Us This Day Our Daily Belcanto: Ideas, Memos and Notes about Old-New Operas, 2017–2019

Author(s): Zoltán Csehy
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: opera; fandom and obsession; cognitive trap; camp sensibility

Summary/Abstract: This passionate, extravagant and provocative essay is dealing with the mysteries, status and poetical analysis of concrete opera performances and recordings. The main focus is on the eccentricities, ambivalence and the survival strategies of the genre, on the cognitive trap of the special sensibility and obsession. There is a cornucopia of precise observations, esprit, bon mots and mélanges of homage and irony at once. The author uses the genre as the source of self-recognition and lifesaving, supportive hedonism, and provides a special kind of personal meditation and exuberant art-diary.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 7-15
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian