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Ideology in Britten's Operas (Paperback)
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Ideology in Britten's Operas (Paperback)
Series: Music since 1900
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This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way
that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to
engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of
mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too,
because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a
diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only
rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in
all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten
unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his
contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some
writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This
book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations
of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical
complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable -
for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.
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