Opera in Postwar Venice: Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781107169272 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Harriet Boyd-Bennett

Opis

Focusing on opera and modernism in post-war Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

Spis treści

List of figures and music examples; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; 1. Stravinsky's timely excavations, 1951; 2. A Futura Memoria: Verdi's Attila, 1951; 3. Spectral opera: Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954; 4. Magic and realism in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, 1955; 5. Open works/staging crisis, 1959; 6. Noisy echoes in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960, 1961; Bibliography.