Outputs (4)

Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde (2018)
Book
Boyd-Bennett, H. (2018). Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476

Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth... Read More about Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde.

Modernist Mise-en-scène: Luigi Nono and the Politics of Staging (2015)
Journal Article
Boyd-Bennett, H. (2015). Modernist Mise-en-scène: Luigi Nono and the Politics of Staging. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 140(1), 225-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690403.2015.1008869

Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924 (2014)
Journal Article
BOYD, H. (2014). Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924. California Italian Studies, 4(1),

In January 1924 the latest incarnation of Futurist music theatre, Il nuovo teatro futurista, began a twenty-eight city tour of the peninsula. The Venice stopover, at the Teatro Goldoni on January 25, prompted a flurry of media activity. Press repor... Read More about Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924.

Staging Crisis: Opera aperta and the 1959 Venice Biennale Commissions (2014)
Journal Article
Boyd, H. (2014). Staging Crisis: Opera aperta and the 1959 Venice Biennale Commissions. Opera Quarterly, 30(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.1093/oq/kbu010