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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 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. Les Contes d'Hoffmann is also examined as both a continuation and a retraction of tendencies in Offenbach's earlier operettas and opéra-comiques. Hadlock investigates the political climate of the 1870s that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights from feminist, literary, and cultural theory, she considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a complex literary and theatrical tradition. Finally, Hadlock ponders the enigmas posed by the score of this unfinished opera, which has been completed many times and by many different hands since its composer's death shortly before the premiere in 1881. In this book, the "mad loves" that drive Les Contes d'Hoffmann--a poet's love, a daughter's love, erotic love, and fatal attraction to music--become figures for the fascination exercised by opera itself.

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Verdi's operas - composed between 1839 and 1893 - portray a striking diversity of female protagonists: warrior women and peacemakers, virgins and courtesans, princesses and slaves, witches and gypsies, mothers and daughters, erring and idealised wives, and, last of all, a feisty quartet of Tudor townswomen in Verdi's final opera, Falstaff. Yet what meanings did the impassioned crises and dilemmas of these characters hold for the nineteenth-century female spectator, especially during such a turbulent span in the history of the Italian peninsula? How was opera shaped by society - and was society similarly influenced by opera? Contextualising Verdi's female roles within aspects of women's social, cultural and political history, Susan Rutherford explores the interface between the reality of the spectators' lives and the imaginary of the fictional world before them on the operatic stage.

Verdi, Giuseppe --- Women in opera --- Opera --- 19th century --- Women in opera. --- Verdi, Giuseppe, --- Opera. --- Operas (Verdi, Giuseppe). --- 1800-1899.

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Music --- Women in opera. --- CDL --- 782 --- 78.77.0 --- Theatre --- Images of women --- Book

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Le XIXe siècle romantique a-t-il voulu retrouver une vision religieuse du monde que les Lumières du siècle précédent avaient cherché à supplanter ? L'air d'opéra, qui soulève tant de passions, apparaît bien comme le lieu des transferts du sacré à l'expérience la plus intime de soi, parfois aussi aux appartenances nationales. Or à la sacralisation de l'art correspond en retour une esthétisation du religieux, phénomène complexe qui ne cesse de se manifester sous nos yeux, avec des conséquences parfois inquiétantes. Les lecteurs sentiront que les enjeux esthétiques évoqués dans ce livre intéressent de près l'évolution des sociétés modernes "avancées".

Women in opera --- Characters and characteristics in opera --- Music and literature