Deviant opera sex, power, and perversion on stage

"For decades now, radical stage directors have repeatedly dressed canonical operas--from Handel and Mozart to Wagner and Puccini and beyond--in whips, chains, leather, and other regalia of SM and fetishism. Deviant Opera seeks to understanding this phenomenon, approaching the visual code of per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Englund, Axel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Temas:
Sex in opera.
Opera > Production and direction > History.
Sexualité à l'opéra.
Opéra > Production et mise en scène > Histoire.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Opera > Production and direction
Sex in opera
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : staging deviance
  • Opera and sadomasochism
  • Sex in excess : Rinaldo, Alcina, and the contemporary baroque
  • Schools of Libertinage : Don Giovanni with Sade
  • In-house allegories : enactment and actuality in Parsifal and Tosca
  • More or less human : Wozzeck, Lulu, and the Soprano conductor
  • Epilogue : the actuality effect and the quest for authenticity

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