Opera in Postwar Venice: Cultural Politics and the Avant-Garde

Contents

• List of figures and music examples
• Acknowledgements
• Note on translations
• Introduction
• 1. Stravinsky's timely excavations, 1951
• 2. A Futura Memoria: Verdi's Attila, 1951
• 3. Spectral opera: Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954
• 4. Magic and realism in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, 1955
• 5. Open works/staging crisis, 1959
• 6. Noisy echoes in Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960, 1961
• Bibliography.