Opera and modern culture : Wagner and Strauss /

Musicologist Lawrence Kramer argues that for the past two centuries the preoccupation of a group of famous operas with the limits of supremacy & debasement has come to define a normality that is the very opposite of the operatic.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kramer, Lawrence, 1946- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Wagner, Richard, > 1813-1883. > Operas.
Strauss, Richard, > 1864-1949. > Operas.
Operas (Strauss, Richard)
Operas (Wagner, Richard)
Opera > Social aspects.
Sex in opera.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Sexualité à l'opéra.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
Opera > Social aspects
Sex in opera
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • 1. Opera
  • 2. Contesting Wagner
  • 3. The Waters of Prometheus
  • 4. Enchantment and Modernity
  • 5. Modernity's Cutting Edge
  • 6. Video as Jugendstil
  • 7. Fin-de-Siècle Fantasies
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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