Opera Addict: The Rake's Progress and W.H. Auden's Operatic Theory

Autor:	Matthew Paul Carlson
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Subjectivity Literature business.industry General Arts and Humanities Philosophy Opera 05 social sciences Rake 050401 social sciences methods Temporality 06 humanities and the arts Free movement 0504 sociology 060402 drama & theater business Objectivity (science) 0604 arts
Zdroj:	University of Toronto Quarterly. 85:69-93
ISSN:	1712-5278 0042-0247
Popis:	The article demonstrates how W.H. Auden's newfound knowledge of the operatic tradition influenced his approach to writing the libretto for The Rake's Progress, his 1951 collaboration with co-librettist Chester Kallman and composer Igor Stravinsky. It contends that the opera's protagonist, Tom Rakewell, ironically dramatizes Auden's evolving ideas about the singular capacities of music and opera to represent the subjective experience of the will's free movement within the bounds of time. Forsaking any claim to realist objectivity, The Rake's Progress celebrates artifice as it explores the relationships between tradition and innovation, cyclicality and linearity, and recurrence and becoming.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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