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Operratics / Michel Leiris ; edited by Jean Jamin ; translated from the French by Guy Bennett.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1700 .L4513 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leiris, Michel, 1901-1990.
- Series:
- Green Integer (Series) ; 32.
- Green integer ; 32
- Standardized Title:
- Operratiques. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kobenhaven ; Los Angeles : Green Integer, 2001.
- Summary:
- This book is a study of opera by the great French poet, art critic, and anthropologist Michel Leiris. Leiris began his writing career as a poet associated with the Surrealist group, but he later made major contributions as an art critic and anthropologist, as well as through his great autobiographical confession, L'Age d'Homme (Manhood). In Operratics Leiris turns his brilliant mind to one of his major loves, opera. Approaching the subject as a lover of music without any formal musical training, he discerns fascinating patterns in cultural movements in opera and reveals his personal tastes in this great genre.
- Contents:
- Eternal Decline 18
- What is an Opera? 20
- Opera and Drama 23
- Opera is Not an Oratorio 25
- The Resonant Space 27
- Furniture Music 30
- Opera and Lyric Poetry 31
- Opera and Pataphysics 33
- Romantic Opera and Romantic Drama 35
- Credibility 37
- Transvestites 39
- The Fantastic in Opera 41
- The Marvelous in Wagner and Verdi 44
- The Lively Hell 48
- Eroticism in Opera 50
- Love Duo - and Something Else... 52
- "Committed" Operas 54
- Exoticism in Opera 57
- Wagner Librettist 59
- The Impossible Wagner 61
- Wagner's Paradoxical Destiny 62
- Nietzsche and Wagner 64
- Verism 66
- La Villa Puccini 69
- Puccini and Schoenberg 72
- Discovery of Monteverdi 74
- The Marriage of Thetis and Peleus 77
- La ninfa fidela 78
- Jephta 79
- Il mondo della luna 82
- Don Giovanni 83
- Die Zauberflote 86
- Fidelio 89
- Medea 90
- Norma 91
- The Barber of Seville 93
- Lucia di Lammermoor 95
- La Traviata 97
- Il Trovatore 100
- A Model Opera: Un ballo in maschera 103
- Rienzi 105
- Tristan and Isolde 107
- Die Meistersinger 108
- Parsifal 109
- La Belle Helene 111
- La Damnation de Faust 112
- Faust 114
- Mignon 116
- Mefistofele 117
- I Pagliacci 119
- Ariadne auf Naxos 122
- The Woman without a Shadow 124
- Pelleas et Melisande 126
- Louise 128
- Tosca 130
- Madame Butterfly 132
- Turandot 133
- Andrea Chenier 143
- Lulu 145
- Moses and Aaron 146
- The Three-Penny Opera 148
- Mahagonny 151
- The Gay Divorcee 153
- Porgy and Bess 154
- The Medium (film) 155
- The Deaf Man's Glance 156
- Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai 157
- Chinese Opera 160
- Voodoo (dances and chants) 164
- Greek Karagheuz 167
- Operas on Film 170
- Period Performances 173
- Unaffected Singing 175
- Acting in Music 177
- Better than Good? 180
- Fortunate Coincidences and Gags 182
- Opera and Celebration 185
- Opera and Bullfighting 188
- Opera and Gastronomy 189
- Superstars 191
- New Genre 202
- Monsieur Gaston 204
- Hoffmannian Evenings 207
- An Opera Evening in San Gimignano 212
- At the Casino d'Enghien 214
- The Opera of Rome at the Caracalla Thermal Baths 216
- A Pilgrimage to Mecca 217
- Opera and Folklore 220
- Art and Life 222
- What We Were Looking for So Far Away 224
- What I Find in Opera 226.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1892295032
- OCLC:
- 47911849
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