Taubert, T. Sofie (2020). How to Catch the Devil? Performance Materiality and Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable. Theatre Res. Int., 45 (3). S. 315 - 321. NEW YORK: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1474-0672
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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 Veron 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 Eugene 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?
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-316301 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0307883320000310 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Theatre Res. Int. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 45 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 315 - 321 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1474-0672 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31630 |
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