HISTORY OF MUSIC PRODUCTION

The course forms part of the three-year degree in "Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management", which provides essential tools for operators in the fields of preservation and promotion of artistic heritage.
The course aims to provide students with a series of knowledge relating to the historical evolution of the musical production system.

The course aims to offer the student an adequate knowledge of the production system of the opera house, both from the point of view of its historical evolution, and from the point of view of its articulation in the various professional figures that compose it.

Basic knowledge of history of musical theatre

The course will address an analysis of the historical evolution of the production systems of live musical performance, from the "court opera" of the early seventeenth century up to our contemporaneity, divided into "repertoire theater", "season theater" and " festival".
We will also study different models of management of the live show in their different components: the artistic-musical one, the technical one and the administrative one. This analysis will be conducted with the study of some concrete examples related to the different European realities of today.

Notes from the lessons and examples in projected slides during the lessons.

Required Texts:
Storia dell'opera italiana, a cura di Lorenzo Bianconi e Giorgio Pestelli, vol 4 Il sistema produttivo e le sue competenze, Torino, Edt, 1987, solo i saggi di Franco Piperno, John Rosselli e Fiamma Nicolodi (pp.1-231);

Giorgio Brunetti, Paolo Pinamonti, Board e sovrintendente: «Croce e delizia» dei teatri italiani in: Maurizio Rispoli, Giorgio Brunetti, Economia e management delle aziende di produzione culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 309-329

Recommended Texts
John Rosselli, The Opera Industry in Italy from Cimarosa to Verdi: the Role of the Impresario, Cambridge University Press,1984.
John Rosselli, Singers of Italian Opera, the History of a Profession, Cambridge University Press 1992.

The method of verifying learning will take place through a discussing of the topics of the course.

Non-attending students must agree with the professor an alternative program.

These are lectures with audivisuals

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