The Last Opera (eBook)

<I>The Rake's Progress</I> in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama

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2019
356 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04161-6 (ISBN)

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The Last Opera - Chandler Carter
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1. The first book length study of The Rake's Progress since 1982.

2. This opera premiered in 1951 and is still a staple of opera survey courses and history textbooks today because it strikes at the heart of the cultural shift that took place between the modern and postmodern eras in its exploration of the limits of the human will. In addition to a close reading of the text this book provides critical context its creation and explores its place in the history of opera.

3. Chandler Carter is an established and respected scholar of Stravinsky who has published numerous articles on The Rake's Progress.

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."


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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Chandler Carter is Professor of Music at Hofstra University.

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

Reihe/Serie Russian Music Studies
Russian Music Studies
Zusatzinfo 25 b&w illus., 70 music exx.
Verlagsort Bloomington
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 160 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Schlagworte alienation effect • American Intellectuals for Freedom • and Sung Drama • Antonio Ghirighelli • A Rake’s Progress • Arnold Schoenberg • Arthur Schlesinger • Art Institute of Chicago • artistic freedom • Auden • Benjamin Britten • Bertolt Brecht • bi-tonal • Cabaletta • Cantata • Carl Ebert • Carl Jung • Carter • Central City Opera • Chandler Carter • Chester Kallman • Christian existentialism • Composer • Congress for Cultural Freedom • counterpart funds • Craft-Igor • Craft-Igor, Nicolas Nabokov • Cultural Cold War • David Hockney • Dehumanization of Art • DeLiA • Delia, Cantata • disinterestedness • Dmitri Shostakovich • Doctor Faustus • Don Giovanni • Donizetti • Don Pasquale • Don Quixote • double bill • Dove sono • Dylan Thomas • Einstein on the Beach • Elizabeth Schwarzkopf • English • English Opera Group • estrangement • Existentialism • Faust legend • Ferdinand Leitner • Ford Foundation • Fritz Reiner • George Balanchine • Glyndebourne Opera • habitus and field • heightened expression • highbrow • ID • Igor Stravinsky • Indiana University Press • Individuation • Ingmar Bergan • IUP • IU Press • Jacqueline Kennedy • Jean-Paul Sartre • John Crosby • John F. Kennedy • Jörg Immendorf • Jr. • Jr., Ford Foundation • l’acte gratuity • La Fenice • La Scala • Lincoln Kirstein • Marriage A-la-Mode • Marshall Plan • Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century • Metropolitan Opera • Middlebrow • Modern • modernism • Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo • Mozart • Mozart’s Così fan tutte • multi-part structure • music • Music Drama • Musicians • Musiktheater • natural declamation • Neoclassicism • Nicolas Nabokov • Oedipus-Erwartung • Olin Downes • Opera • Opera buffa • Opera Company of Boston • opera queens • Ortega y Gasset • Osbert Lancaster • Philip Glass • Philosophy of Modern Music • Pierre Bourdieu • pluralistic analysis • postmodern • post-opera • post-tonal • printmaking • Ralph Hawkes • Reception • Religious • Religious drama • René Leibowitz • rhythmic displacement • Robert Craft • Robert Rounseville • Royal Opera at Covent Garden • Russia • Salzburg Festival • Santa Fe Opera • Santa Fe Opera, John Crosby • Sarah Caldwell • Sarah Caldwell, David Hockney, Salzburg Festival, Jörg Immendorf • Sartre • scene ed aria • Schenkerian Analysis • self • Semiotics • serial technique • set theory • shadow and anima • Sigmund Freud • sketch material • Soren Kierkegaard • Storytelling • Stravinsky • subverted declamation • sung drama • super-ego • Swedish Royal Opera • Taverna La Fenice • T. E. Hulme • text setting • theatrical distance • the Great Artist • The Last Opera • The Last Opera: The Rake’s Progress • The Last Opera: The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky, and Sung Drama • "the music itself" • “the music itself” • Theodor Adorno • The Rake's Progress • the three wishes • Thomas Mann • Tonal • Venice International Festival of Contemporary Music • Venus and Adonis • Vera Stravinsky • W. H. Auden • William Hogarth
ISBN-10 0-253-04161-9 / 0253041619
ISBN-13 978-0-253-04161-6 / 9780253041616
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