Prokofiev''s Soviet Operas

Informationen zum Autor Nathan Seinen is Assistant Professor of Musicology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in Music & Letters and the Cambridge Opera Journal, and he is the 2010 recipient of the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society. Klappentext Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin's Soviet Union.Prokofiev's last four operas are major works of his career in the Soviet Union, yet the original versions remain unfamiliar since they exist only in manuscript form. This book offers bold new interpretations, draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, and includes comparisons with works of literature, film, and theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Semyon Kotko and the melodrama of high Stalinism; 2. Buffered by Buffa: Betrothal in a Monastery; 3. Kutuzov's victory, Prokofiev's defeat: the revisions of War and Peace; 4. The Story of a Real Man and late Stalinist subjectivity; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Seinen, Nathan (The Chinese University of Hong Kon Seinen, Nathan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Seinen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781107088788
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08878-8
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Music Since 1900; Music Since 1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Russia, European History, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, Opera, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music