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The Operas of Benjamin Britten / ed. by David Herbert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]Copyright date: ©1979Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231922081
  • 9780231887564
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen librettos.
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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

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Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen librettos.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)