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Modernism and Opera HSM HHopkOinsP StKudIieNs inS M odSerTniUsmDIES IN MODERNISM Douglas Mao, Series Editor HSM HOPKINS STUDIES IN MODERNISM HSM HOPKINS STUDIES IN MODERNISM Modernism and Opera Edited by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore © 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2016 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Begam, Richard, 1950– editor. | Smith, Matthew Wilson, editor. Title: Modernism and opera / edited by Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith. Description: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. | Series: Hopkins studies in modernism | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015047645 | ISBN 9781421420622 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781421420639 (electronic) | ISBN 1421420627 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1421420635 (electronic) Subjects: LCSH: Opera—20th century. | Modernism (Music) Classification: LCC ML1705 .M63 2016 | DDC 782.109/04—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047645 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or [email protected]. Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible. In memory of our friend and fellow scholar Daniel Albright 1945–2015 This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith I World War I and Before: Crises of Gender and Theatricality 1. Laughing at the Redeemer: Kundry and the Paradox of Parsifal 29 Matthew Wilson Smith 2. Maeterlinck, Debussy, and Modernism 63 Daniel Albright 3. Echoes of the Self: Cosmic Loneliness in Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle 101 Klára Móricz II Interwar Modernism: Movement and Countermovement 4. The Great War and Its Aftermath: Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s “Third-Way Modernism” 129 Bryan Gilliam 5. Adorno’s Shifting Wozzeck 148 Bernadette Meyler 6. Many Modernisms, Two Makropulos Cases: Čapek, Janáček, and the Shifting Avant-Gardes of Interwar Prague 186 Derek Katz 7. Schoenberg, Modernism, and Degeneracy 206 Richard Begam viii Contents 8. Gertrude Stein, Minimalism, and Modern Opera 244 Cyrena N. Pondrom III Opera after World War II: Tensions of Institutional Modernism 9. Stravinsky, Auden, and the Midcentury Modernism of The Rake’s Progress 271 Herbert Lindenberger 10. Gloriana and the New Elizabethan Age 290 Irene Morra 11. One Saint in Eight Tableaux: The Untimely Modernism of Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise 315 Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon 12. Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin: Modernist Opera in the Twenty-First Century 341 Joy H. Calico Contributors 361 Index 365 Acknowledgments We would like to begin by thanking the contributors to this volume for their patience and good humor through all those proposals, drafts, revisions, fur- ther revisions, and editing deadlines. Their understanding and professional- ism lightened our labors and reminded us of how fortunate we are to have such generous colleagues. We are also indebted to the anonymous review- ers of the manuscript who identified errors, made improving suggestions, and offered encouragement. At Johns Hopkins University Press, we wish especially to thank Douglas Mao, our series editor, whose attentive reading helped us further refine the manuscript, as well as Matt McAdam, acquisi- tions editor in Humanities and Literary Studies, Catherine Goldstead, senior editorial assistant, and freelancer Carrie Watterson, our splendid copy edi- tor. We are also grateful to Michael Opest, Phillip Bandy, and Jessi Piggott who provided invaluable research and editorial assistance in the preparation of this volume. Finally, our most heartfelt thanks go to our wives, Christiaan Marie Hendrickson and Bernadette Meyler, who supported and sustained us as Modernism and Opera went from idea to book. Earlier versions of chapters 1 and 7 appeared in Modernist Cultures 3.1 (2010), © Edinburgh University Press Limited, and are reproduced with permission of Edinburgh University Press Limited via PLSClear. Both essays were sub- stantially revised for this book.
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