The operas of Sergei Prokofiev / by Guillaumier, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration, abbreviations and sources -- Introduction: Prokofiev and Opera -- 1 Early Operatic Experiments and Maddalena -- 2 Between Opera and Theatre: Radicalisation of Style in The Gambler -- 3 A Successful Enterprise: Love for Three Oranges -- 4 The Devil Within: Theatre and Spectacle in The Fiery Angel -- 5 Towards a Soviet Operatic Style: Semyon Kotko -- 6 Betrothal in a Monastery and the Retreat from Ideology -- 7 War and Peace: The Prokofievan Operatic Ideal?…”
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The operas of Maurice Ravel / by Kilpatrick, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Opera synopses -- Making operas. Introduction : A single act at the opera-comique ; Ravel's hour ; The child and the impresarios -- Words and music. …”
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The operas of Maurice Ravel / by Kilpatrick, Emily

Table of Contents: “…Opera synopses -- Making operas. Introduction : A single act at the opera-comique ; Ravel's hour ; The child and the impresarios -- Words and music. …”
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The political in Rimsky-Korsakov's operas / by Nelson, John (Musicologist)

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Modernism and opera /

Table of Contents: “…Gertrude Stein, Minimalism, and Modern Opera; III: Opera after World War II: Tensions of Institutional Modernism; 9. …”
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Middlebrow modernism : Britten's operas and the great divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Subjects: “…Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Operas.…”
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Opera and Ideology in Prague : Polemics and Practice at the National Theater, 1900-1938 / by Locke, Brian S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde / by Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, 1969-

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Opera in the twentieth century : sacred, profane, Godot / by Mordden, Ethan, 1947-

Subjects: “…Opera.…”

Recent American opera : a production guide / by Kornick, Rebecca Hodell

Subjects: “…Opera 20th century Production and direction United States.…”

Opera and the culture of fascism / by Tambling, Jeremy

Subjects: “…Opera Europe 19th century.…”

A rage for opera; its anatomy as drawn from life. by Lawrence, Robert, 1912-

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Twentieth century opera : a guide / by Martin, George Whitney

Subjects: “…Operas 20th century Stories, plots, etc.…”

Tin Pan opera : operatic novelty songs in the ragtime era / by Hamberlin, Larry

Table of Contents: “…National identity in "That opera rag" ; Opera, ragtime, and the musical color line.…”

Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde / by Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, 1969-

Subjects: “…Opera Italy Venice 20th century.…”
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Opera and ideology in Prague / by Locke, Brian S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Opera and ideology in Prague / by Locke, Brian S., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: changing attitudes to cultural and stylistic pluralism (1925-30) -- "I have rent my soul in two" : divergent directions for Czech opera in the late 1920s -- Heaven on earth : socialism, jazz, and a new aesthetic focus (1930-38) -- "A sad optimism, the happiness of the resigned" : extremes of operatic expression in the 1930s -- The ideological debates of Prague within a European context.…”
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Women in American Operas of the 1950s : undoing gendered archetypes / by Hershberger, Monica A.

Table of Contents: “…American Opera at Mid-century -- A Conniving Gold Digger : Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor -- A "Really Vicious Monster" : Lizzie Andrew Borden -- A Chaste White Woman : Laurie Moss -- A Dangerous Jezebel : Susannah Polk -- Epilogue "The World So Wide" : Beyond the Virgin or the Whore in the Twenty-First Century.…”
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Tonality as drama : closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Russian opera and the Symbolist movement / by Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Decadence : Tchaikovsky at the edge -- Interlude : Symbolism's Nutcracker -- Syncretism : Rimsky-Korsakov and Belsky -- Interlude : Klara Milich -- Theurgy : Scriabin and the impossible -- Interlude : another church musician writes an opera -- Mimesis : Prokofiev's demons -- Conclusion.…”
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