Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy

Opera News;  June 1, 2008 ;     597 words ...Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy By Ellen Rosand University of California Press, 474 pp., $60 The Venetian trilogy at the heart of Ellen Rosand's engrossing Monteverdi study is not the one that casual operagoers would expect. Monteverdi...

New Opera Group at Yale to Stage Inaugural Performance.

M2 Presswire;  October 25, 2007 ;     470 words ......qualities that speak eloquently to audiences today, said Ellen Rosand, the George A. Saden Professor of Music at Yale. Conceived...funded through a Distinguished Achievement Award given to Ellen Rosand, professor of musicology in the Department of Music, by the...

Yale Professor Wins Distinguished Achievement Award from Mellon...

M2 Presswire;  January 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Haven, Conn. -- Yale University professor of music history Ellen Rosand has won a prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award from...for Yale undergraduates. This award is a great honor for Ellen Rosand and for Yale, said University President Richard C. Levin...

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Notes;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...There are several worthwhile studies on Venetian music, such as Ellen Rosand's Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) or Jane L. Baldauf-Berdes's study of the...

Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century...

Notes;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......here it is. Wendy Heller's Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice, taking off from Ellen Rosand's influential and monumental text Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), offers...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Distinguished Achievement Award...

PR Newswire;  December 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ......institutional programs of activities that will enhance both research and teaching. Four scholars were selected this year: Ellen Rosand, Professor of Music History at Yale University. An inventive and influential musicologist, Rosand's voluminous publications...

Yale Baroque Opera Will Present Monteverdi's "Orfeo"; Orfeo Orpheus and...

M2 Presswire;  April 1, 2008 ;     577 words ......The Yale Baroque Opera Project is funded by a Distinguished Achievement Award granted by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Ellen Rosand, the George A. Saden Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Yale. Rosand's Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice...

AN OLD MASTER'S COMEBACK, IN POP TERMS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......change that, kicking off Saturday with a symposium featuring Handel scholars Ellen T. Harris, Donald Burrows, Ruth Smith, and Ellen Rosand, who will discuss the composer's life and music, and the Baroque Era. The rest of the festival features performances of various...

Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in...

Notes;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......begin with Simon Towneley Worsthorne's Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954) or Ellen Rosand's Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) before venturing...

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Fanfare;  July 1, 2007 ;     395 words ......in eschewing any addition to the instrumental forces. Oddly, in an extensive and valuable annotation of over 40 pages by Ellen Rosand, nothing is mentioned about this aspect of the production. Twelve players are named in addition to Vartolo's work at the...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducts seven new fellows from Yale.

M2 Presswire;  May 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ......David Bromwich, John Geanakoplos, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Peter W. Jones, J.D. McClatchy, Peter Charles Bonest Phillips, Ellen Rosand and Efim I. Zelmanov. The following are brief academic profiles of this year's recipients: William Eskridge, Jr., the John...

Conference schedule

New Haven Register;  April 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......which, like the WPP, was established through a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, this one to music professor Ellen Rosand. The other awardee, Joseph Roach, established the WPP to bring interdisciplinary and international performance events to...

The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

Opera News;  November 1, 2008 ;     513 words ......duties and known compositions were part of this cultural fabric. Another strong chapter is "Monteverdi's Late Operas," by Ellen Rosand, who ably blends libretto dissection and musical analysis to clarify the composer's dramatic intentions and development of...

"Eve ... blowing in our ears"? Toward a history of music scholarship on...

Women & Music;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Anthony Newcomb Howard Brown Bea Friedland Julie Cummings Bernice Johnson Reagon Pamela Susskind Victoria Sirota James Briscoe Ellen Rosand Philip Brett Judith Vander Catherine Parsons Smith Framing (Theorizing about Gender, Musicology, and the Short Century...

Yale Professor Peter Brooks Wins Prestigious Mellon Award.

M2 Presswire;  January 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......member has received the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Achievement. The previous Yale recipients are Joseph Roach and Ellen Rosand. CONTACT: Dorie BakerTel: +1 203 432 8553 ((M2 Communications Ltd disclaims all liability for information provided within...