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Morra, Irene

 
9780754660637: Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain
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ISBN 10: 075466063X ISBN 13: 9780754660637
Editorial: Routledge, 2007

Sinopsis

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors, as much as the musical innovations of British composers, informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed, British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often, operatic adaptations are compared superficially to their original sources. This is a particular problem for British opera, which has become increasingly defined artistically by the literary sophistication of its narrative sources. The resulting collaborations between literary figures and composers have crucial implications for the development of both opera and literature. Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain reveals the importance of this literary involvement in operatic adaptation to literature and literary studies, to music and musicology, and to cultural and theoretical studies.

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Irene Morra is Lecturer in the Departments of English and Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University, UK.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
075466063X
ISBN 13 
9780754660637
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
146
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