The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
| Editor | Mervyn Cooke |
| About/Subject | Opera |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Series | Cambridge Companions To Music |
| Printed by | University Press, Cambridge |
| Contributing Writer | Nigel Simeone, Arnold Whittall, John Deathridge, Virgilio Bernardoni, Caroline Harvey, Philip Weller, Alan Street, Chris Walton, Guido Heldt, Rachel Beckles Willson, Marina Frolova-Walker, Elise K. Kirk, Christopher Mark, Robert Adlington, Arved Ashby, Mervyn Cooke, Stephen Banfield, Nicholas Payne, Tom Sutcliffe |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | 2005 |
| Pages / Font | 374 pages |
| ISBN | 0-521-78393-3 |
| Barcode | 9 780521 783934 |
| Chapters | Part I Legacies 1. Opera in transition (Arnold Whittall) 2. Wagner and beyond (John Deathridge) 3. Puccini and the dissolution of the Italian tradition (Virgilio Bernardoni) Part II Trends 4. Words and actions (Caroline Harvey) 5. Symbolist opera: trials, triumphs, tributaries (Philip Weller) 6. Expression and construction: The stage works of Schoenberg and Berg (Alan Street) 7. Neo-classical opera (Chris Walton) Part III Topographies 8. France and the Mediterranean (Nigel Simeone) 9. Austria and Germany, 1918-1960 (Guido Heldt) 10. Eastern Europe (Rachel Beckles Willson) 11. Russian opera: between modernism and romanticism (Marina Frolova-Walker) 12. American opera: innovation and tradition (Elise K. Kirk) 13. Opera in England: taking the plunge (Christopher Mark) Part IV Directions 14. Music theatre since the 1960s (Robert Adlington) 15. Minimalist opera (Arved Ashby) 16. Opera and film (Mervyn Cooke) 17. Popular musical theatre (and film) (Stephen Banfield) 18. Opera in the marketplace (Nicholas Payne) 19. Technology and interpretation: aspects of 'modernism' (Tom Sutcliffe) |
| Notes | Back cover text: 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 wide-ranging 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, and filmed opera, and ends with a provocative discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace. |
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