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The Rape of Lucretia, premier « opéra anglais » de Britten ?
Published 2008-02-01“…The Rape of Lucretia is Britten’s second opera, composed in the wake of the popular success of Peter Grimes and amidst the composer’s difficulties in sustaining his ambitious project to restore English opera and to set up his own opera company despite the dire post-war economic context. …”
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Le viol de Lucrèce de Britten : un livret d’opéra qui revisite les fondamentaux du genre
Published 2014-10-01“…His first chamber opera, The Rape of Lucretia on a libretto in verse by Ronald Duncan constitutes an original experiment in the musical world of the time. …”
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A Dinner Engagement (1954) de Lennox Berkeley : un opéra-bouffe anachronique ?
Published 2014-10-01“…The instrumentation follows that of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring. As regards Albert Herring, it served to a certain extent as a model for Berkeley’s opera as is illustrated by the way the text was set to music, by the use of the repetition of musical motifs, etc. …”
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John Piper et Benjamin Britten : le renouveau de l’opéra anglais et ses décors
Published 2006-06-01“…From the architectural designs for The Rape of Lucretia to the window he designed for the new Coventry Cathedral and to the last opera sets for Death in Venice, he created backdrops for Britten’s works that provided a sense of aesthetic continuity whilst reflecting the contradictions of opera as a social form of art in post-war Britain.…”
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