Modernism and opera / edited by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith.

"At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the...

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Other Authors:	Begam, Richard, 1950- (Editor), Smith, Matthew Wilson (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Series:	Hopkins studies in modernism.
Subjects:	Opera > 20th century. Modernism (Music) Opera.