Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780520229433
Subjects: Music; Opera; 20th century; History & Criticism - General; Music/Songbooks; Russia; Russia (Federation); Genres & Styles - Opera; Music / General; History; Symbolism (Literary movement)
First sentence: On 24 March 1905, the impresario Sergev Diaghilev (1872-1929) was honored at a Moscow banquet by his patron Ilya Ostroukhov.
Description: "An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth century and the compositions of Prokofiev and Stravinsky, this exceptionally insightful and well-researched book explores how Russian symbolist poets interpreted opera and prompted operatic innovation.

Simon Morrison shows how these works, though stylistically and technically different, reveal the extent to which the operatic representation of the miraculous can be translated into its enactment."--BOOK JACKET.