Igor Stravinsky, the Rake's Progress

by Paul Griffiths

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521281997
• ISBN13: 9780521281997
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"