Opera after the zero hour : the problem of tradition and the possibility of renewal in postwar West Germany / Emily Richmond Pollock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollock, Emily Richmond, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Germany (West)--20th century.

Opera.

Germany (West).

Physical Description:

xi, 294 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

1 Placement and displacement p. 12

Rank and file: Operas everyday biographies p. 15

The situation of new opera in the postwar repertoire p. 23

2 The significance of nonsense: Boris Blacher's Abstrakte Oper Nr. 1 p. 38

Why abstract an opera? p. 40

Linguistic abstraction in the libretto p. 43

Making music from nonsense p. 49

Hearing controversy and politics in abstraction p. 59

3 Italy, atonally: Hans Werner Henze's König Hirsch p. 70

The bondage of bel canto p. 71

The magic of König Hirsch p. 77

From sketches to songs p. 80

Melody, the "renegade's hara-kiri" p. 97

4 The opera underneath: Carl Orff's Oedipus der Tyrann p. 101

Origin stories I Ancient Greece in Germany p. 105

Origin stories II Ancient Greece against the opera p. 108

An opera without music? p. 112

Traces of the opera underneath p. 118

5 Explosive pluralisms: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Die Soldaten p. 137

Wagner and Berg: Zimmermann's operatic pasts p. 138

A spaceship of the mind: Zimmermann's operatic futures p. 141

From Lenz to Literaturoper p. 145

The structure of pluralism p. 150

Serialism and expression(ism) p. 164

In the end p. 171

6 Rebuilding and retrenchment: The Munich Nationaltheater and Werner Egk's Die Verlobung in San Domingo p. 174

Ideas of reconstruction p. 176

The reconstruction of the Munich Nationaltheater p. 181

November 1963: The gala reopening p. 189

Who was Werner Egk? p. 195

Operaticism and racial stereotypes in Die Verlobung in San Domingo p. 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190063733

0190063734

OCLC:

1084621099