How to Catch the Devil? Performance Materiality and Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable
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Stage machinery enters the historical narrative often enough through mishaps and interruptions. This article takes as its starting point a report of the Paris opera director Véron in order to think about the role of materiality in the analysis of past performances. The occasion, depicted in the report, is the opening night of Robert le Diable, written by Eugène Scribe and composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The article discusses two key questions on the historiographic value of the report as a source for performance analysis. (1) How can we unfold the performativity of a past performance through archival documents? (2) What is the impact of the materiality of machinery, bodies and space in the theatrical interplay?
2016 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 805-814
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2017 ◽
Vol 24
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pp. 865-886
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2008 ◽
Vol 2
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pp. 363-396
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2010 ◽
pp. 248-267
2014 ◽
Vol 42
(11/12)
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pp. 1032-1052
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