TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auden,W.H.
AU  - Baker,Janet
AU  - Britten,Benjamin
AU  - Coleman,Basil
AU  - Crabbe,George
AU  - Crozier,Eric
AU  - Duncan,Ronald
AU  - Forster,E.M.
AU  - Graham,Colin
AU  - Herbert,David
AU  - Keller,Hans
AU  - Pears,Peter
AU  - Piper,John
AU  - Piper,Myfanwy
AU  - Plomer,William
AU  - Porter,Andrew
AU  - Slater,Montagu
TI  - The Operas of Benjamin Britten
SN  - 9780231922081
PY  - 1979///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editor’s note --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; Introduction: Operatic music and Britten --; Working with Britten --; Designing for Britten --; Writing for Britten --; The first opera: Paul Bunyan --; Staging first productions 1 --; Staging first productions 2 --; Staging first productions 3 --; The last opera: Death in Venice --; Librettos --; Paul Bunyan --; Peter Grimes (derived from the poem of George Crabbe) --; The Rape of Lucretia (after André Obey's play ‘Le Viol de Lucrèce’) --; Albert Herring (freely adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant) --; The Little Sweep --; Billy Budd (adapted from the story by Herman Melville) --; Gloriana --; The Turn of the Screw (adapted from the story by Henry James) --; Noye’s Fludde --; A Midsummer Night's Dream (adapted from William Shakespeare) --; Curlew River --; The Burning Fiery Furnace --; The Prodigal Son --; The Golden Vanity --; Owen Wingrave (based on a short story by Henry James) --; Death in Venice (based on the short story by Thomas Mann) --; Select Bibliography --; Index to main text; restricted access
N2  - Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen librettos
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/herb92208
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231887564
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