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5 - Sense and Sensibility

Opera

from Part II - A Literary Imagination: Text Settings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

John Link
John Link
Affiliation:
William Paterson University, New Jersey
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A study of Elliott Carter’s opera What Next? with a libretto by Paul Griffiths, premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The chapter considers the influence of Jacques Tati’s film Trafic (Traffic) as well as the opera’s response to the Mozart/Da Ponte operas, verismo, Ferruccio Busoni, the Verfremdungseffekt in the “epic theater” of Berthold Brecht, and European postwar modernism.

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What Next?contemporary operaPaul GriffithsDaniel BarenboimJacques TatiTraficBerthold BrechtVerfremdungseffekt
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Elliott Carter's Late Music , pp. 95 - 116
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Sense and Sensibility
  • John Link
  • Book: Elliott Carter's Late Music
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139019873.006
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  • Sense and Sensibility
  • John Link
  • Book: Elliott Carter's Late Music
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139019873.006
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  • Sense and Sensibility
  • John Link
  • Book: Elliott Carter's Late Music
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139019873.006
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