Brecht at the Opera
Joy H. Calico
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University of California Press
Sachbuch / Klassik, Oper, Operette, Musical
Beschreibung
From an award-winning author, the first thorough examination of the important influence of opera on Brecht’s writings.
Brecht at the Opera looks at the German playwright's lifelong ambivalent engagement with opera. An ardent opera lover in his youth, Brecht later denounced the genre as decadent and irrelevant to modern society even as he continued to work on opera projects throughout his career. He completed three operas and attempted two dozen more with composers such as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau. Joy H. Calico argues that Brecht's simultaneous work on opera and
Lehrstück in the 1920s generated the new concept of audience experience that would come to define epic theater, and that his revisions to the theory of
Gestus in the mid-1930s are reminiscent of nineteenth-century opera performance practices of mimesis.
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paul hindemith, theory of gestus, hanns eisler, opera, weimar playwright, dialectical theater, 19th century opera performance, kurt weill, german drama, bertolt brecht, german literature, brecht, performing arts, german plays, musicology, german playwright, opera in brecht, brecht criticism, paul dessau, lehrstuck, epic theater