Mad Loves : : Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann / / Heather Hadlock.
In a lively 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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Opera ;
35 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Telling the Tales
- CHAPTER TWO. Mesmerizing Voices
- CHAPTER THREE. Song as Symptom
- CHAPTER FOUR. Offenbach, for Posterity
- CHAPTER FIVE. Reflections on the Venetian Act
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index