Modernism and Opera

by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith

Many of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire bear the hallmarks of modernism.

At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist strains of Richard Wagner's Parsifal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420627
• ISBN13: 9781421420622
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"