دانلود کتاب The Operas of Benjamin Britten

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Contents\nEditor’s note\nAcknowledgements\nPreface\nIntroduction: Operatic music and Britten\nWorking with Britten\nDesigning for Britten\nWriting for Britten\nThe first opera: Paul Bunyan\nStaging first productions 1\nStaging first productions 2\nStaging first productions 3\nThe last opera: Death in Venice\nLibrettos\nPaul Bunyan\nPeter Grimes (derived from the poem of George Crabbe)\nThe Rape of Lucretia (after André Obey\'s play ‘Le Viol de Lucrèce’)\nAlbert Herring (freely adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant)\nThe Little Sweep\nBilly Budd (adapted from the story by Herman Melville)\nGloriana\nThe Turn of the Screw (adapted from the story by Henry James)\nNoye’s Fludde\nA Midsummer Night\'s Dream (adapted from William Shakespeare)\nCurlew River\nThe Burning Fiery Furnace\nThe Prodigal Son\nThe Golden Vanity\nOwen Wingrave (based on a short story by Henry James)\nDeath in Venice (based on the short story by Thomas Mann)\nSelect Bibliography\nIndex to main text