{"product_id":"opera-in-postwar-venice-9781107169272","title":"Opera in Postwar Venice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city''s nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186721808727,"sku":"9781107169272","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/opera-in-postwar-venice-9781107169272","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}