An edition of Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (2002)
Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
By Simon Morrison
Publish Date
August 5, 2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
392
Description:
"An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation. Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment."--BOOK JACKET.