Twentieth-century British authors and the rise of opera in Britain

Morra, Irene 1975- (Author).

Summary: This book is the first to examine the contributions of major British authors, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. Auden and Forster, as much as Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, defined British opera, which emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. The resulting collaborations have crucial implications for the development of our understanding of opera and literature.

Record details

ISBN: 9780754687658
ISBN: 0754687651
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (viii, 138 pages)
Publisher: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-135) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Defining the British operatic idiom -- The second renaissance -- The literary librettist -- 1. Drama, verse, and the musical libretto -- Tippett, verse drama, and King Priam -- The Bassarids -- 2. Nation, modernity, and the operatic stage -- Gawain -- Troilus and Cressida -- 3. The muddying of the wells -- The beach of Falesá -- Billy Budd.
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