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ancient drama transformation
Apollo's Prophecy
Apollo’s Prophecy
Author_Michael Ewans
Berkoff's Play
Berkoff’s Play
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classical reception studies
Cocteau's Text
Cocteau’s Text
comparative opera analysis
Contemporary Society
De La Touche
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French Classical Tragedy
French Grand Opera
Greek Source Text
Greek tragedy operatic adaptation
Henze's Music
Henze’s Music
Hofmannsthal's Elektra
Hofmannsthal's Play
Hofmannsthal’s Elektra
Hofmannsthal’s Play
Human Suffering
Il Ritorno
King Priam
libretto adaptation analysis
literary source reinterpretation
Midsummer Marriage
Mother Son Incest
musicology research
Orfeo Ed Euridice
Principal Rhythm
Short Arias
Strauss's Elektra
Strauss's Response
Strauss’s Elektra
Strauss’s Response
Teddy Bear
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754660996
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Michael Ewans explores how classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry have been appropriated in opera, through eight selected case studies. These range from Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, drawn from Homer's Odyssey, to Mark-Antony Turnage's Greek, based on Sophocles's Oedipus the King. Choices have been based on an understanding that the relationship between each of the operas and their Greek source texts raise significant issues, involving an examination of the process by which the librettist creates a new text for the opera, and the crucial insights into the nature of the drama that are bestowed by the composer's musical setting. Ewans examines the issues through a comparative analysis of significant divergences of plot, character and dramatic strategy between source text, libretto and opera.
Michael Ewans is Associate Professor of Music and Drama at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
