Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress
(Part of the Cambridge Opera Handbooks Series)
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The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521281997
ISBN13:9780521281997
Release Date:September 1982
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:124 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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