Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Galbraith, Helen | Copyright information

Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement. By SIMON MORRISON. (California Studies in Twentieth Century Music). Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 2002. [pounds sterling]40. xii+ 311 pp. ISBN 0-520-22943-6.

While scholars have offered some fresh insight on Russian Silver Age opera in recent years, it still remains a relatively neglected topic, making Simon Morrison's Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement a welcome publication in this area...

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