Opera In Postwar Venice (Cambridge Studies In Opera)
Cambridge University Press
ISBN13:
9781316620571
$35.84
Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.
- | Author: Harriet Boyd-Bennett
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: 2-Sep-21
- | Number of Pages: 244 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1316620573
- | ISBN-13: 9781316620571
- Author:
- Harriet Boyd-Bennett
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2-Sep-21
- Number of pages:
- 244 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1316620573
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316620571