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Paperback Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9 Book

ISBN: 0520314263

ISBN13: 9780520314269

Brecht at the Opera: Volume 9

(Part of the California Studies in 20th-Century Music Series)

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From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht's writings.

Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and Lehrst?ck in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.

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