Fairy-tale opera and the crossed desires of words and music

Benson, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7175-9979 (2010) Fairy-tale opera and the crossed desires of words and music. Contemporary Music Review, 29 (2). pp. 171-182. ISSN 0749-4467

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Abstract

This article considers the idea of contemporary fairy-tale opera, looking in particular at In the House of Crossed Desires (1996), composed by John Woolrich to a libretto by Marina Warner. At the heart of the genre lies a singular crossing of desires: the desire for transformation, expressed and enacted in the fairy tale, and the yearning that is voiced in the impassioned song of opera. Fairy-tale opera thus represents one version of opera's ongoing play with the dramatic crossing of words and music.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Creative-Critical Research Group
Depositing User:	Sarah Burbidge
Date Deposited:	24 May 2011 16:05
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2024 01:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/31327
DOI:	10.1080/07494467.2010.534925

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