Harriet Boyd-Bennett, Opera in Postwar Venice: Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde
Who’d have thought that a book on the apparently recondite subject of opera in Venice in the ten years between 1951-1961 could yield such richness of political and cultural analysis of post-war Italy as does this widely researched, and compellingly written and argued, study? Harriet Boyd-Bennett ta...
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Transposition
2019
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Who’d have thought that a book on the apparently recondite subject of opera in Venice in the ten years between 1951-1961 could yield such richness of political and cultural analysis of post-war Italy as does this widely researched, and compellingly written and argued, study? Harriet Boyd-Bennett takes six key performances presented at La Fenice opera house in Venice during these years (the premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress in 1951; the first modern revival of Verdi’s early Risorgi... |
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