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| Author(s): |
Alexandre Machado Takahama
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes |
| Defense date: | 2010-02-25 |
| Examining board members: |
Eduardo Augusto Ostergren;
Carlos Fernando Fiorini;
Adriana Giarola Kayama;
Edmundo Villani Cortes;
Antonio Carlos Borges Cunha
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| Advisor: | Eduardo Augusto Ostergren |
| Abstract | |
The opera Sandro by Murillo Furtado (1873-1958) holds a privileged and prominent position in the Rio Grande do Sul musical scene for having being the first opera written and premiered by a native composer in his home State of Rio Grande do Sul. It is the second of two operas written between the years 1901 and 1902 under strong influence of Verismo School. Its plot is a sequel to the events already present in Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni. Sandro's debut took place in 1902 and reports of the time indicate that it had its last performance in the year 1908. The precarious condition of the existing orchestral material poses serious obstacle for another performance of the work. This dissertation therefore offers an approach to Sandro's musical direction in order to make its performance possible which could only be viable through the restoration of the libretto and of the revised edition of the manuscript score. It is divided into four chapters: the first attempts to contextualize the composer and his work from a historical standpoint; the second proposes to discuss structural and stylistic aspects of the opera; the third offers a newly revised edition of the work as subsidy for its performance; the fourth discusses pragmatic aspects regarding preparation of the work based on contents developed in the preceding chapters as well as historical overview about the preparation of an opera. Finally an addenda presents the restored libretto with a translation into the Portuguese language as well as an edited version of the full orchestral score. (AU) | |