Opera in Postwar Venice: Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde
- Author: Boyd-Bennett, Harriet
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Contents
- List of figures and music examples
- Acknowledgements
- Note on translations
- Introduction
- 1. Stravinsky's timely excavations, 1951
- 2. A Futura Memoria: Verdi's Attila, 1951
- 3. Spectral opera: Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954
- 4. Magic and realism in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, 1955
- 5. Open works/staging crisis, 1959
- 6. Noisy echoes in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960, 1961
- Bibliography.