Mad Loves : Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann /
"In an exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Telling the Tales
- Mesmerizing voices: music, medicine, and the invention of Dr. Miracle
- Song as symptom: Antonia, Olympia, and the Prima Donna Mother
- Offenbach, for posterity
- Reflections on the Venetian Act.