Music 230

Seminar in Contemporary Opera

 

Myth and Literature: Faustus and La Commedia

 

Jacaques Amblard,"Dusapin's Third Style in Faustus, the Last Night,", revised chapter from The Oxford Handbook of Faust in music, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, 449-58.

Jelena Novak"Voice and Gender Standing Apart,", Postopera : reinventing the voice-body Farhmah, UK: Ashgate, 2015, 113-31.

Further Reading

Pascal Dusapin, Program notes for Faustus, the Last Night

Jacaques Amblard, Libretto and notes on Faustus, the Last Night

Caroline Ehman, Reimagining Faust in Postmodern Opera, PhD diss., 2013.

La Commedia score synopsis

La Commedia DVD liner notes

La Commedia Vocal score

Interview with Andriessen

 

Video

Faustus, the Last Night, Pascal Dusapin

La Commedia, Louis Andriessen and Hal Hartley

Resources