Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann

by Heather Hadlock

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691170851

ISBN13:9780691170855

Release Date:July 2016

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.61 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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