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New. 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 protege Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals…
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Last Opera: The Rakeas Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama Hardcover - 2019
by Chandler Carter
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- Title Last Opera: The Rakeas Progress in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama
- Author Chandler Carter
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 356
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date 2019-05-31
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780253041579 / 0253041570
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Opera, Stravinsky, Igor
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018031197
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.1
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