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American Political Opera in the Twentieth Century

American Political Opera in the Twentieth Century

Hardcover

Series: Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance, Book 16

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ISBN10: 3631771711
ISBN13: 9783631771716
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Feb 28 2019
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The author analyses the substantial contribution made by American composers to the development of twentieth-century opera. The methodological approach employed in this book is influenced by Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski's method of integral interpretation. The operas analyzed in this monograph, written from 1976 onwards, represent a watershed in twentieth-century American opera, characterised by three main aspects: firstly, creation of video-opera, represented by the works of Steve Reich, secondly, creation of a new kind of opera based on topics related to contemporary events that are manifested with documentary fidelity, represented by works of John Adams, and lastly, the introduction of a new genre: a portrait opera, characteristic for the works of Philip Glass.

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