Opera in Postwar Venice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107169272)

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 clich s 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
ISBN-10: 1107169275
ISBN-13: 9781107169272
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2018
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 10.03h x 7.36w x 0.65d