Modernism and Opera |
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| Editor:
| Begam, Richard
Smith, Matthew Wilson |
| Series title: | Hopkins Studies in Modernism Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-2062-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2016 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $47.00 |
Book Description:
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At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist strains of Richard Wagner's ......
At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist strains of Richard Wagner's ......