Opera in Postwar Venice

Opera in Postwar Venice

Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde

Boyd-Bennett, Harriet (University of Nottingham)

Cambridge University Press

09/2018

272

Dura

Inglês

9781107169272

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