Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain

This book is the first to examine in depth the contributions of major British authors such as W. H. Auden and E. M. Forster as critics and librettists to the rise of British opera in the twentieth century. The perceived literary values of British authors as much as the musical innovations of British composers informed the aesthetic development of British opera. Indeed British opera emerged as a simultaneously literary and musical project. Too often operatic adaptations are compared superficially...See More