{"product_id":"opera-in-postwar-venice-9781316620571","title":"Opera in Postwar Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harriet Boyd-Bennett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Genres \u0026amp; Styles - Opera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth century. Both opera and Venice in the middle of the century are often talked about in strikingly similar terms: as museums locked in the past and blind to the future. These clichés are here overturned: perceptions of crisis were in fact remarkably productive for opera, and despite being physically locked in the past, Venice was undergoing a flourishing of avant-garde activity. Focusing on a local musical culture, Harriet Boyd-Bennett recasts some of the major composers, works, stylistic categories and narratives of twentieth-century music. The study provides fresh understandings of works by composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Verdi, Britten and Nono.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47596204753047,"sku":"9781316620571","price":4227.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781316620571.webp?v=1774992876","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/opera-in-postwar-venice-9781316620571","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}