Enchantment
The Seductress in Opera
We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What is it about the marriage of music and the stage that fills us with such bewilderment and passion? How does the sensual space of opera transport us into the realm of dream? Jean Starobinski considers the allure of several seducers and seductresses from nineteenth-century opera-Monteverdi's Poppea, Handel's Alcina, and Massenet's Manon, among others-and how their stories are woven into the fabric of Western culture. A talented storyteller and renowned critic of literature and music, Starobinski moves from musical analysis and textual exegesis…
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Weitere Autoren: Delogu, C. Jon (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-14090-4
- EAN: 9780231140904
- Produktnummer: 3460048
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 553 g
- Abbildungen: 9 illus.
- Gewicht: 553
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Jean Starobinski. Translated by C. Jon Delogu
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