Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923616
- Title
- Taneyev's Oresteia
- Author/Creator
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Belina, Anastasia;
Ewans, Michael
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Drama, Fine Art and Music
- Description
- Sergey Taneyev's musical trilogy Oresteia (composed 1887-94, first performance 1895) stands out from the rest of his large output, as well as from other late nineteenth-century Russian music, because of its choice of subject. Its contemporaries are such operas as Borodin's Prince Igor, Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Mazeppa, Charodeyka (Enchantress), Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada, Snegurochka, Noch pered rozhdestvom (Christmas Eve), and Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and Boris Godunov. Taneyev's choice of Greek tragedy for his opera immediately placed him outside the area in which his colleagues operated-Russian history, folklore, and literature.
- Relation
- Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage p. 258-284
- Relation
- http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199558551.do
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Keyword(s)
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Sergey Taneyev;
Oresteia;
Greek tragedy;
opera
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923616
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780199558551
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