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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Calico, Joy Haslam, 1965-
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Series:California studies in 20th-century music ; 9.
Subjects:
Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956 > Knowledge > Music.
Brecht > Bertolt > 1898-1956 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brecht > Bertolt > 1898-1956 > Knowledge > Music.
Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956.
Brecht, Bertolt > 1898-1956
Brecht, Bertolt.
Opera.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Music.
Oper
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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