The Operas of Benjamin Britten / / ed. by David Herbert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Auden, W.H.,; Baker, Janet,; Britten, Benjamin,; Coleman, Basil,; Crabbe, George,; Crozier, Eric,; Duncan, Ronald,; Forster, E. M.,; Graham, Colin,; Keller, Hans,; Pears, Peter,; Piper, John,; Piper, Myfanwy,; Plomer, William,; Porter, Andrew,; Slater, Montagu,
• TeilnehmendeR: Baker, Janet.; Coleman, Basil.; Crozier, Eric.; Graham, Colin.; Keller, Hans.; Pears, Peter.; Piper, John.; Piper, Myfanwy.; Porter, Andrew.
• HerausgeberIn: Herbert, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1979]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 1979
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Provides a reference work and record of the original stage realizations of Britten's operas including all sixteen librettos.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Editor’s note
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction: Operatic music and Britten
• Working with Britten
• Designing for Britten
• Writing for Britten
• The first opera: Paul Bunyan
• Staging first productions 1
• Staging first productions 2
• Staging first productions 3
• The last opera: Death in Venice
• Librettos
• Paul Bunyan
• Peter Grimes (derived from the poem of George Crabbe)
• The Rape of Lucretia (after André Obey's play ‘Le Viol de Lucrèce’)
• Albert Herring (freely adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant)
• The Little Sweep
• Billy Budd (adapted from the story by Herman Melville)
• Gloriana
• The Turn of the Screw (adapted from the story by Henry James)
• Noye’s Fludde
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (adapted from William Shakespeare)
• Curlew River
• The Burning Fiery Furnace
• The Prodigal Son
• The Golden Vanity
• Owen Wingrave (based on a short story by Henry James)
• Death in Venice (based on the short story by Thomas Mann)
• Select Bibliography
• Index to main text