The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera

This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.

ISBN 0521783933   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521783934 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 680 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Companions to Music Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780521780094 Publication date 08 Dec 2005   Height (mm) 247 Library of Congress ML1700.C17   Width (mm) 174 DEWEY 782.10904   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, General, Professional / Scholarly Pages 428

1		Opera in transition by Arnold Whittall		3
2		Wagner and beyond by John Deathridge		14
3		Puccini and the dissolution of the Italian tradition by Virgilio Bernardoni		26
4		Words and actions by Caroline Harvey		47
5		Symbolist opera : trials, triumphs, tributaries by Philip Weller		60
6		Expression and construction : the stage works of Schoenberg and Berg by Alan Street		85
7		Neo-classical opera by Chris Walton		105
8		France and the Mediterranean by Nigel Simeone		125
9		Austria and Germany, 1918-1960 by Guido Heldt		146
10		Eastern Europe by Rachel Beckles Willson		165
11		Russian opera : between modernism and romanticism by Marina Frolova-Walker		181
12		American opera : innovation and tradition by Elise K. Kirk		197
13		Opera in England : taking the plunge by Christopher Mark		209
14		Music theatre since the 1960s by Robert Adlington		225
15		Minimalist opera by Arved Ashby		244
16		Opera and film by Mervyn Cooke		267
17		Popular musical theatre (and film) by Stephen Banfield		291
18		Opera in the marketplace by Nicholas Payne		306
19		Technology and interpretation : aspects of 'modernism' by Tom Sutcliffe		321

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