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Cather and Opera (Hardcover)
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Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-three operas.
References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels
and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of
musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the genre
beginning in her earliest criticism and continuing throughout her
career. She counted opera stars among her close friends, and
according to Edith Lewis, her companion throughout adulthood, the
two women frequently visited the theater, even in the early days,
when purchasing tickets to attend performances proved a financial
sacrifice. Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of her
works and discussions of opera's complex place in
turn-of-the-century America, David McKay Powell's Cather and Opera
offers the first book-length study of what drew the writer so
powerfully and repeatedly to the art form. With close attention to
Cather's fiction and criticism, Powell posits that at the heart of
both her work and the operatic corpus dwells an innate tension
between high artistic ideals and popular acceptance, often figured
as a clash between compositional integrity and raw, personal
emotion. Considering her connection to opera in both historical and
intertextual terms, Cather and Opera investigates what operatic
references mean in Cather's writing, along with what the opera
represented to her throughout her life.
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