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Languages : fr
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Recueil factice d'articles de presse concernant Robert Moor
Opera In The Flesh
Author: Sam AbelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000308154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera, like no other art form, physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media. In this deeply personal book, Abel writes, ‘These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera, my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties, but much more they express my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself, how it consumes me.’ In so doing, Abel uncovers what until now, through dry musicology and gossipy history, has been left behind a wall of silence: the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own response to opera, he provides readers with a language and a resonance with which to understand their own experiences. Ultimately, Opera in the Flesh celebrates the power of opera to move audiences as no other book has done. It is indeed a treasure of scholarship, passion, and poetry for everyone with even a passing interest in this fascinating art form.
Monsieur
Author: Jean-Philippe ToussaintPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 156478505X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The hero, Monsieur, is a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life is examined with precision. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Here, he muses on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And he is very funny.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Giacomo MeyerbeerPublisher:
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Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A collection of letters by Meyerbeer, the operatic composer who died in 1864. Critics have recently re-evaluated his work, recognizing his musical craftmanship, his dramatic sense and his influence on later operatic composers. The editors also edited Letters and Diaries of Meyerbeer.
Platinotype
Author: Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyPublisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Dinorah
Author: Giacomo MeyerbeerPublisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 66
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The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838640937
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, and a highly original reconstruction of them."--Jacket.
The Nation's Image
Author: Jane FulcherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.
The Urbanization of Opera
Author: Anselm GerhardPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226288574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?
Author: William Ackland