Eugene Benson

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The Tuneful Voice

Selected Libretti

Beschreibung

The Tuneful Voice: Selected Libretti presents a collection of works by Eugene Benson, professor, novelist, playwright, and editor, written over a fifty-year period. The volume includes adaptations of the writings of such prominent authors as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde as opera, operetta, musical theatre, and oratorio. The death of Canadian painter Tom Thomson is probed in the oratorio The Mystery of Canoe Lake, and the extraordinary story of the Canadian theatre mogul Ambrose J. Small is dramatized in the musical The Millionaire Who Disappeared. Other subjects range from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. This is a book, rich in detail and personal insight, and an illuminating exploration of how musical theatre in its various genres is created. Benson's work has been performed by the Canadian Opera Company, the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guelph Spring Festival, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Westben Arts Festival, Opera-in-Concert (Toronto), Stratford Summer Music, and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Autor

Eugene Benson is a prolific nonfiction writer, novelist, playwright, and librettist. He taught for many years at the University of Guelph, and retired with the title University Professor Emeritus. His scholarly publications include J.M. Synge (1982), English-Canadian Theatre (1987), The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre (1987), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (1994, 2nd ed. 2005)---the last three co-edited with L.W. Conolly---and The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (1997, second edition, with William Toye). He edited the anthology Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media (1973) and the scholarly journal Canadian Drama/L'Art dramatique canadien (1980-90). His plays include The Ram (1967, broadcast by McGill Radio), Joan of Arc's Violin (broadcast by CBC in 1970 and published and staged in 1972), The Gunner's Rope, (broadcast by CBC in 1970 and published and staged in 1972), and The Doctors' Wife (broadcast by the CBC in 1973). He lives in Toronto. His memoir The Symmetry of the Tyger was also published by Rock's Mills Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rock's Mills Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9781772443042
• ISBN-10: 1772443042
• Artikelnr.: 69122414