Mad loves :: women and music in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann /

"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...

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Main Author: Hadlock, Heather (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Series:Princeton studies in opera.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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
Physical Description:1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references, discography (page 158), videography (page 159) , and index.
ISBN:9781400866724
1400866723