Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde

Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century.

List of contents

List of figures and music examples; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction; 1. Stravinsky's timely excavations, 1951; 2. A Futura Memoria: Verdi's Attila, 1951; 3. Spectral opera: Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954; 4. Magic and realism in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, 1955; 5. Open works/staging crisis, 1959; 6. Noisy echoes in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960, 1961; Bibliography.

About the author

Harriet Boyd-Bennett is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. Prior to this she was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Nottingham and Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She has published widely on music, culture and politics in Italy, modern opera performance and the musical avant-garde.

Summary

Boyd-Bennett investigates the relationship of music and politics in the aftermath of war and dictatorship. Bringing locality into the study of twentieth-century music by focussing on the Italian and Venetian contexts, she shows how music culture was deeply imbedded in the most pressing social and cultural concerns of the post-war period.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Boyd-Bennett, Harriet (University of Nottingham) Boyd-Bennett
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781316620571
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62057-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, Venice, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Italy, Opera, c 1950 to c 1959, c 1940 to c 1949, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, C 1945 To C 1960