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...

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1. Verfasser:	Boyd-Bennett, Harriet 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in opera
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1945-1961 Opera / Italy / Venice / 20th century Kulturpolitik Opernproduktion Venedig
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2018)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xv, 226 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781316718476
DOI:	10.1017/9781316718476