TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joanna Miklaszewska
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631779118
TI  - American Political Opera in the Twentieth Century
DO  - 10.3726/b15128
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068736
N2  - The author analyses the substantial contribution made by American composers to the development of twentieth-century opera. The methodological approach employed in this book is influenced by Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski’s method of integral interpretation. The operas analyzed in this monograph, written from 1976 onwards, represent a watershed in twentieth-century American opera, characterised by three main aspects: firstly, creation of video-opera, represented by the works of Steve Reich, secondly, creation of a new kind of opera based on topics related to contemporary events that are manifested with documentary fidelity, represented by works of John Adams, and lastly, the introduction of a new genre: a portrait opera, characteristic for the works of Philip Glass.
KW  - political opera, video-opera, portrait opera, documentary stage work, opera with libretto of linguistic quality, American music drama
LA  - English
ER  -