Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.

Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520254824)

Vendor: Joy H. Calico
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Format: Hardcover
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Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.

Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

$85.00
Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 by Calico, Joy H.

Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings.

Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrst?k in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.

Author: Joy H. Calico
ISBN-10: 0520254821
ISBN-13: 9780520254824
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2008
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.32w x 0.98d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/15/2008 pg. 17
By Joy H. Calico
By Joy H. Calico
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Joy H. Calico is Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology and Professor of German Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Arnold Schoenberg's 'A Survivor from Warsaw' in Postwar Europe.

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