Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-135) and index.
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Defining the British operatic idiom -- The second renaissance -- The literary librettist -- 1. Drama, verse, and the musical libretto -- Tippett, verse drama, and King Priam -- The Bassarids -- 2. Nation, modernity, and the operatic stage -- Gawain -- Troilus and Cressida -- 3. The muddying of the wells -- The beach of Falesá -- Billy Budd.
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This book is the first to examine the contributions of major British authors, as critics and librettists, to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. Auden and Forster, as much as Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, defined British opera, which emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. The resulting collaborations have crucial implications for the development of our understanding of opera and literature.
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Twentieth-century British authors and the rise of opera in Britain.