Introduction

Author： Begam Richard  

Publisher： Edinburgh University Press

ISSN： 1753-8629

Source： Modernist Cultures, Vol.3, Iss.1, 2007-10, pp. : 1-4

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Abstract

Opera has generally been regarded as an art of extravagance, dedicated to the melodramatic, the hyperbolic, the sentimental, a form of expression that prefers feeling to thought, sensation to reflection. Given its interest in producing effects that are overdrawn and exaggerated - at times, even kitschy - opera would seem to stand at a substantial distance from the cool formalism we often associate with modernism. Admittedly, the idea that modernism is detached and abstracted - presided over by a God indifferently paring his fingernails - has been justifiably challenged in recent years.

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