Guillaumier The Operas of Sergei Prokofiev

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-623-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

The first book in the English language to engage with Prokofiev's operatic output in its entirety.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guillaumier, Christina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Prokofiev and Opera
Early Operatic Experiments and Maddalena
Between Opera and Theatre: Radicalisation of Style in The Gambler
A Successful Enterprise: Love for Three Oranges
The Devil Within: Theatre and Spectacle in The Fiery Angel
Towards a Soviet Operatic Style: Semyon Kotko
Betrothal in a Monastery and the Retreat from Ideology
War and Peace: The Prokofievan Operatic Ideal?
Dramaturgical Re-evaluation in The Story of a Real Man
Epilogue
Synopses
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Guillaumier Christina:
CHRISTINA GUILLAUMIER is a pianist and music historian with an early background in the dramatic arts. She is Head of Undergraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music. Her research interests include Russian and Soviet music and opera, piano music and genetic criticism. She is the recipient of several research awards including from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), theEuropean Union, the American Musicological Society and the Russian Federation. Recent publications include a co-edited series of landmark essays entitled Rethinking Prokofiev.