Gustav Holst and British Operatic Culture: From Bayreuth to Aldeburgh

by Christopher Scheer

Although Gustav Holst is rarely thought of as an opera composer, his operatic works provide a gateway to the exploration of how a budding opera composer negotiated the British operatic world across his career and how his synthesis of a myriad of cultural influences in his operatic works affected his reputation and success as a composer. This interdisciplinary study provides a kaleidoscopic view of how overlapping and often contradictory cultural influences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409462374
• ISBN13: 9781409462378
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages