Weill's Musical Theater: Stages of Reform

by Stephen Hinton

In the first musicological study of Kurt Weill's complete stage works, Stephen Hinton charts the full range of theatrical achievements by one of twentieth-century musical theater's key figures. Hinton shows how Weill's experiments with a range of genres-from one-act operas and plays with music to Broadway musicals and film-opera-became an indispensable part of the reforms he promoted during his brief but intense career. Confronting the divisive notion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271777
• ISBN13: 9780520271777
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"