Nathan Seinen

Prokofiev's Soviet Operas

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a critical and contextual study of the last four operas of Prokofiev, the leading opera composer in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781107460799
• ISBN-10: 1107460794
• Artikelnr.: 61622142

Autorenporträt

Nathan Seinen is Assistant Professor of Musicology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in Music & Letters and the Cambridge Opera Journal, and he is the 2010 recipient of the Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Semyon Kotko and the melodrama of high Stalinism
2. Buffered by Buffa: Betrothal in a Monastery
3. Kutuzov's victory, Prokofiev's defeat: the revisions of War and Peace
4. The Story of a Real Man and late Stalinist subjectivity
Conclusion.