Chandler Carter 
The Last Opera [EPUB ebook] 
The Rake’s Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama

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From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera The Rake’s Progress. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In The Last Opera, Chandler Carter weaves together three interlocking stories. The central and most detailed story explores the libretto and music of The Rake’s Progress. The second positions the opera as a focal point in Stravinsky’s artistic journey and those who helped him realize it—his librettists, Auden and Chester Kallman; his protégé Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals lived and worked, the book captures a pivotal twenty-five-year span (from approximately 1945 to 1970) during which modernists like Stravinsky and Auden confronted a tectonic disruption to their artistic worldview. Ultimately, Carter reveals how these stories fit into a larger third narrative, the 400-year history of opera. This richly and lovingly contextualized study of The Rake’s Progress sheds new light on why, despite the hundreds of musical dramas and theater pieces that have been written since its premier in 1951, this work is still considered the ‘the last opera.’

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Acknowledgments

Part I: The Cultural Moment

Prelude


Part II: The Drama

1. A Convergence of Minds

2. A Happy Collaboration

3. Deeper Meanings


Part III: The Music

4. Stravinsky’s ‘Special Sense’

5. Displacement, Text Setting and Stravinsky’s Evolving Aesthetic

6. Stravinsky’s Truths and Mozart’s Lies—Music, Emotion and Theatrical Distance

7. The Structure of Scenes

8. Ruin, Disaster, … Saving Grace


Part IV: Performance

9. Venice

10. How The Rake became a Masterpiece

Epilogue: ‘Good people, just a moment’

Bibliography

Index

Sobre el autor


Chandler Carter is Professor of Music at Hofstra University.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 356 ● ISBN 9780253041616 ● Tamaño de archivo 39.2 MB ● Editorial Indiana University Press ● Ciudad Bloomington ● País US ● Publicado 2019 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6997580 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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