| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations |
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Princeton studies in opera |
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Princeton studies in opera.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography (page 158), videography (page 159) , and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann.
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| SUBJECT |
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann
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Offenbach, Jacques. Contes d'Hoffmann. swd |
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Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach, Jacques) fast |
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Women in opera.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Voice.
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MUSIC -- Lyrics.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Vocal.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
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Women in opera
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Opera
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Women
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Frau Motiv
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Opera's.
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Vrouwen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400866724 |
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1400866723 |
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