Brecht at the opera
By: Joy H. Calico.
Series: California studies in 20th-century music -- 9
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520254824
Subjects: Brecht, Bertolt, -- 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Brecht, Bertolt, -- 1898-1956 -- Knowledge -- Music.; Opera.
Notes: "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities."

Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: value: Lehrstück, opera, and the new audience contract of the epic theater; value: The operatic roots of gestus in The mother and Roundheads and peakedheads; value: Fragments of opera in American exile; value: Lucullus : opera and national identity; value: Brecht's legacy for opera : estrangement from the canon.