Spectacle and enchantment : envisioning opera in late nineteenth-century paris / Rose M. Theresa.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Microformat

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Theresa, Rose M.

Contributor:

Tomlinson, Gary, advisor.

University of Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Music.

Music--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Music.

Music--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 499 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Production:

2000.

Summary:

This study situates Parisian operagoing in the context of nineteenth-century visual and social practices to explore how opera was experienced differently by women and men of that time. From feminist theories of cinematic spectatorship it further posits a model for analyzing operatic works in terms of spectacle, narrative, and enunciative modes of address. It offers a critique of Gounod's Faust to elucidate the significance of sexual difference to this work's structuring of sight and sound and then traces operatic ways of looking and listening across a selective survey of the nineteenth-century repertory of the Palais Garnier. The dissertation presents an evaluation of a specific segment of the operatic repertory that has been somewhat neglected in the musicological literature. More generally, it offers a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of opera and operatic history.

Notes:

Supervisor: Gary Tomlinson.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Music) -- University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

University Microfilms order no.: 99-76484.

OCLC:

244972242