| Phys. Description |
xlvii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to music
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Opera in transition / Arnold Whittall -- Wagner and beyond / John Deathridge -- Puccini and the dissolution of the Italian tradition / Virgilio Bernardoni -- Words and actions / Caroline Harvey -- Symbolist opera : trials, triumphs, tributaries / Philip Weller -- Expression and construction : the stage works of Schoenberg and Berg / Alan Street -- Neo-classical opera / Chris Walton -- France and the Mediterranean / Nigel Simeone -- Austria and Germany, 1918-1960 / Guido Heldt -- Eastern Europe / Rachel Beckles Willson -- Russian opera : between modernism and romanticism / Marina Frolova-Walker -- American opera : innovation and tradition / Elise K. Kirk -- Opera in England : taking the plunge / Christopher Mark -- Music theatre since the 1960s / Robert Adlington -- Minimalist opera / Arved Ashby -- Opera and film / Mervyn Cooke -- Popular musical theatre (and film) / Stephen Banfield -- Opera in the marketplace / Nicholas Payne -- Technology and interpretation : aspects of 'modernism' / Tom Sutcliffe. |
| Subject |
Opera -- 20th century.
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| Alt Author |
Cooke, Mervyn.
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| Alt Title |
Twentieth-century opera |
| ISBN |
0521780098 (hbk.) |
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0521783933 (paperback) |
| Isbn/Issn |
9780521780094 (hbk.) |
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9780521783934 (pbk.) |
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