Mad loves: women and music in offenbach's les contes d'hoffmann
Auteur :
Hadlock, Heather
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691170855
Date de publication :
26 juil. 2016
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
255 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the P