Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth century, an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-521-28199-7
- EAN: 9780521281997
- Produktnummer: 9778755
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1982
- Seitenangabe: 124 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.7 cm 167 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 167
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