"Paul Bunyan" by Benjamin Britten

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"The opera Paul Bunyan (1941) is an early work by Benjamin Britten that met with little success and was consequently set aside by the composer until, 35 years later, he was persuaded to review and revise it and offer it to the public a second time. In the interval Britten had become one of the major opera composers of the century and W. H. Auden, his librettist and one of the greatest English poets, had written successful librettos for other composers. If for no other reason, then, Paul Bunyan had great value for the retrospective glimpse it provided into its creators' early careers. When the work was revived critics and scholars found, as they had hoped, numerous early indicators of ideas and techniques that were to bear fruit in Britten's later works. Most importantly, however, the opera itself was found to be both more substantial than expected and thoroughly..."

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