| #3849165 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2000-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | |||"While Hadlock's reading of Hoffman against its sources affords many keen insights, her reading of the opera against itself is even more revealing. . . . A work of scintillating intelligence and endlessly intriguing possibilities."--M. Lignana Rosenberg,
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 Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes co...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Mad Loves | Heather Hadlock. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
