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Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
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Opera in Postwar Venice - Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the
aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic
production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the
relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century.
Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked
about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past
and blind to the future. These cliches are here overturned:
perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera,
and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was
undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a
local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the
major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of
twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of
works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi,
Britten and Nono.
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