Opera
Stravinsky, Igor
Robert Craft and Vera Stravinsky in their book on Stravinsky find his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex imbued – in spirit, language, and musical substance – with religious feeling. Some of its melos, they find, could have been inspired by religious chant. And the way Oedipus Rex is presented ensures an almost Brechtian alienation, lifting the tragedy from a personal to a universal plane...
Written in the mid-20th century, The Rake’s Progress consciously adopts the conventions and some of the musical style of the 18th, yet remains one of the few operas by a modern composer to have a place in the repertoire...