The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera by Mervyn Cooke

By Mervyn Cooke

This spouse celebrates the extreme riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a set of particularly commissioned essays written via a uncommon workforce of teachers, critics and practitioners. starting with a dialogue of the century's very important inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the textual content embraces clean investigations into numerous elements of the style within the glossy age, with a accomplished assurance of the paintings of person composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. conventional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new severe views, and the detailed operatic traditions of Continental and japanese Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the uk and usa are subjected to clean scrutiny. the amount comprises essays dedicated to avant-garde track theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a dialogue of the placement of the style in present day cultural marketplace.

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