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Prokofiev's Soviet Operas (Paperback)
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Prokofiev's Soviet Operas (Paperback)
Series: Music since 1900
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Prokofiev considered himself to be primarily a composer of opera,
and his return to Russia in the mid-1930s was partially motivated
by the goal to renew his activity in this genre. His Soviet career
coincided with the height of the Stalin era, when official interest
and involvement in opera increased, leading to demands for
nationalism and heroism to be represented on the stage to promote
the Soviet Union and the Stalinist regime. Drawing on a wealth of
primary source materials and engaging with recent scholarship in
Slavonic studies, this book investigates encounters between
Prokofiev's late operas and the aesthetics of socialist realism,
contemporary culture (including literature, film, and theatre),
political ideology, and the obstacles of bureaucratic interventions
and historical events. This contextual approach is interwoven with
critical interpretations of the operas in their original versions,
providing a new account of their stylistic and formal features and
connections to operatic traditions.
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