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Author Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, 1969- author.

Title Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde / Harriet Boyd-Bennett
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 266 pages) : illustration
Series Cambridge studies in opera
Cambridge studies in opera.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Music Examples; Acknowledgements; Note on Translations; Introduction; Fascism; Venice; Postwar Culture; Festival Moments; 1 Stravinsky's Timely Excavations, 1951; A Night at the Opera; Present Futures; Classic Sounds; Modernist Metamorphoses; Radiophonic Listening; A Venetian Funeral; 2 A Futura Memoria: Verdi's Attila, 1951; Sepulchral Commemorations; Venetian Exhumations; Commemorative Continuities; Emotional Historiographies; Radio Opera
3 Spectral Opera: Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954Cultura Anglosassone; Britten in Venice; Operatic Ghosts; Giallo Opera; Spectral Moderns; 4 Magic and Realism in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, 1955; A Lost Manuscript; Symbolist Opera; The Venetian Premiere; Magical Noise; Realist Effects; Magical Listening; 5 Open Works/Staging Crisis, 1959; Diversity, Complexity, Openness; 'Tre Opere in un Atto'; Openness, Information, Communication; Aesthetic Divisions and Eclectic Elisions; 6 Noisy Echoes in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960, 1961; Protesting Opera; Bureaucracy, Displacement, Topicality
Echoing Voices, Unseen BodiesThe Debate in L'Unità: Gramsci, Television and Popularity; Noise, Onomatopoeia and Aural Realismo; Modernist Realism: Noise and Memories of Fascism; Select Bibliography; Archives; Newspapers and Periodicals; Books and Articles; Index
Summary Focusing on opera and modernism in postwar Venice, Boyd-Bennett challenges assumptions about music in the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 31, 2018)
Subject Opera -- Italy -- Venice -- 20th century
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
MUSIC -- Lyrics.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
Opera
Oper
Italy -- Venice
Venedig
Form Electronic book
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