Opera
from Part II - A Literary Imagination: Text Settings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
A study of Elliott Carter’s opera What Next? with a libretto by Paul Griffiths, premiered at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The chapter considers the influence of Jacques Tati’s film Trafic (Traffic) as well as the opera’s response to the Mozart/Da Ponte operas, verismo, Ferruccio Busoni, the Verfremdungseffekt in the “epic theater” of Berthold Brecht, and European postwar modernism.
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