The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Expression and Evasion - Hardcover

Seymour, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 085115865X ISBN 13: 9780851158655

Verlag: Boydell Press, 2004

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The delicate balance between private and public communication, and the tension between art as self-expression and art as moral resolution were key concerns in Britten's music. Seymour examines ways in which Britten's operas explored and articulated the inherent ambiguity and latent sexuality of music, particularly song, and suggests that Britten's operas may illustrate his search for a public "voice" which would embody, communicate, and perhaps resolve his private beliefs and anxieties.
Analyses of Britten's operas from Paul Bunyan to Death in Venice, the three Church Parables, and several of the "children's operas" offer evidence that, for Britten, opera was the natural medium through which to explore, express and, paradoxically, repress his private concerns.

CLAIRE SEYMOUR is an Opera Studies Tutor at Rose Bruford College, Kent.

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Claire Seymour is Opera Studies Tutor at Rose Bruford College, Kent.

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• Verlag: Boydell Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 085115865X
• ISBN 13: 9780851158655
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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