ISBN10: 0521281997, ISBN13: 9780521281997, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Softcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Rake's Progress is Stravinsky's biggest work and one of the few great operas written since the 1920s, rare too for the unusual quality of its libretto, by Auden and Kallman. Its importance is undisputed, but so too are the problems it raises: problems of both performance and understanding, caused by the irony with which it is so thoroughly permeated. In aspects of style and operatic convention it looks back to the eighteenth century, and in particular to the operas of Mozart and da Ponte, while making references also to other periods, to operas from Monteverdi to Verdi. Yet at the same time it is wholly a work of the twentieth century, and indeed it is centrally concerned with the impossibility of return, artistic, psychological or actual, as well as with the nature and limitiation of human free will. The Rake's Progress is not one of unbridled dissipation but rather, more interestingly, one of attachment to naive notions of freedom and choice, and his tragedy is that he can never go back.
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Cambridge Univ Pr 1982 Softcover New 109 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.50 inches.

ISBN10: 0521281997, ISBN13: 9780521281997, [publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr] Softcover 109 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1982]

Cambridge University, Date: 1982. 1ST. Paperback. New/New. 1982. Cambridge University ISBN 0521281997 9780521281997 [IN]

Cambridge University Press 1982 Trade paperback This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN: 0521281997.

Cambridge University Press, Date: 1982. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0521281997 1982. Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521281997 9780521281997 [GB]