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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 August 2018
      13 September 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316718476
      9781107169272
      9781316620571
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Music, Opera, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Opera
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Music, Opera, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Opera
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner, 2019 Kurt Weill Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in Music Theater since 1900, The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

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