![]() One composer who did write a truly reconfigured form of modern opera was Robert Ashley (1930-2014), whose work rethinks entirely the relationship between libretto and musical backing in the light of the 20th century. Classically trained singers were not forced to query fundamentally their whole approach to the genre, applying themselves much as they would as if performing Mozart or Wagner. ![]() The mode of the music changed, from Bartok to Schoenberg, but the orchestral fabric of opera remained the same. ![]() Even in the 20th century, when classic music underwent all manner of upheavals, tearing itself down and reassembling itself for the sake of modernity, the conventions and tropes of opera managed to stay mostly intact.
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