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From the fall of 1947 through the summer of 1951 composer Igor Stravinsky and poet W. H. Auden collaborated on the opera __The Rake’s Progress__. At the time, their self-consciously conventional work seemed to appeal only to conservative audiences. Few perceived that Stravinsky and Auden were confronting the central crisis of the Modern age, for their story of a hapless eighteenth-century Everyman dramatizes the very limits of human will, a theme Auden insists underlies all opera. In __The Last Opera__, Chandler Carter weaves together three interlocking stories. The central and most detailed story explores the libretto and music of __The Rake’s Progress__. The second positions the opera as a focal point in Stravinsky's artistic journey and those who helped him realize it―his librettists, Auden and Chester Kallman; his protégé Robert Craft; and his compatriot, fellow composer, and close friend Nicolas Nabokov. By exploring the ominous cultural landscape in which these fascinating individuals lived and worked, the book captures a pivotal twenty-five-year span (from approximately 1945 to 1970) during which modernists like Stravinsky and Auden confronted a tectonic disruption to their

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Author

Chandler Carter

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253041616

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Drama, Arts