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From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings. Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrstuck in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-139780520254824
eBay Product ID (ePID)96633132
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Book TitleBrecht at the Opera
AuthorJoy H. Calico
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic
Publication Year2008
Dimensions
Item Height229mm
Item Width152mm
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Title_AuthorJoy H. Calico
Series TitleCalifornia Studies in 20th-Century Music
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States