Opera as News: "Nixon in China" and the Contemporary Operatic Subject.
Since the eighteenth century, "historical" operas have puzzled and delighted audiences. But what counts as "history" in opera? This essay argues that one answer lies in opera's complex relation not only to facticity but to temporality; whereas all operas move forward theatrically within a complex un...
| Publicado en: | University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 81; no. 4; pp. 805 - 824 |
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University of Toronto Press
Fall2012
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