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The Operas of Benjamin Britten / David Herbert.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen librettos.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor's note
- Acknowledgements
- Preface / Pears, Peter
- Introduction: Operatic music and Britten / Keller, Hans
- Working with Britten / Baker, Janet
- Designing for Britten / Piper, John
- Writing for Britten / Piper, Myfanwy
- The first opera: Paul Bunyan / Porter, Andrew
- Staging first productions 1 / Crozier, Eric
- Staging first productions 2 / Coleman, Basil
- Staging first productions 3 / Graham, Colin
- The last opera: Death in Venice / Porter, Andrew
- Librettos
- Paul Bunyan / Auden, W.H.
- Peter Grimes (derived from the poem of George Crabbe) / Slater, Montagu / Crabbe, George
- The Rape of Lucretia (after André Obey's play 'Le Viol de Lucrèce') / Duncan, Ronald
- Albert Herring (freely adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant) / Crozier, Eric
- The Little Sweep / Crozier, Eric
- Billy Budd (adapted from the story by Herman Melville) / Forster, E. M. / Crozier, Eric
- Gloriana / Plomer, William
- The Turn of the Screw (adapted from the story by Henry James) / Piper, Myfanwy
- Noye's Fludde
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (adapted from William Shakespeare) / Britten, Benjamin / Pears, Peter
- Curlew River / Plomer, William
- The Burning Fiery Furnace / Plomer, William
- The Prodigal Son / Plomer, William
- The Golden Vanity / Graham, Colin
- Owen Wingrave (based on a short story by Henry James) / Piper, Myfanwy
- Death in Venice (based on the short story by Thomas Mann) / Piper, Myfanwy
- Select Bibliography
- Index to main text
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-231-88756-6
- OCLC:
- 1100463984
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