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Brecht at the opera /

'Brecht at the Opera' looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. The text argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and 'Lehrstück' in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Colección:California studies in 20th-century music ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lehrstück, opera, and the new audience contract of the epic theater
  • The operatic roots of gestus in 'The mother' and 'Round heads and pointed heads'
  • Fragments of opera in American exile
  • 'Lucullus' : opera and national identity
  • Brecht's legacy for opera : estrangement and the canon.