TY - BOOK ID - 118295399 TI - Benjamin Britten : new perspectives on his life and work PY - 2009 SN - 128298795X 9786612987953 1846156947 1843835169 PB - Woodbridge : Boydell Press, DB - UniCat KW - Britten, Benjamin, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Britten, Edward Benjamin KW - Britten, Benjamin KW - Britten, Benjamin E. KW - MUSIC / History & Criticism. KW - 20th Century. KW - Benjamin Britten. KW - Collaboration. KW - Influences. KW - Life. KW - Music. KW - Opera. KW - Owen Wingrave. KW - Paris. KW - Patrick White. KW - Second World War. KW - Shostakovich. KW - Verdi. KW - Work. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118295399 AB - Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the 1920s and examines a broad range of influences on Britten, including the works of Shostakovich and Verdi, the poetry of Ovid, and the cinema. Among his operatic works the dramatic qualities of Owen Wingrave arediscussed through a close study of Piper's libretto and we witness the genesis of a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White and submitted to Britten with the hope of a future collaboration. The volume uncovers the generally hostile reception Britten's operas received in Paris until around the 1990s. Britten's status as 'outsider' in both the USA and in his own country when he returned in 1942 is discussed. ER -