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. 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 Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781107460799
• ISBN: 978-1-107-46079-9
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Music Since 1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; 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