The Marriage Between Perfume and the Lyric Stage : The Essence of Opera / Mary May Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Mary May, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (865 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

"But what is this scent of balmy air? What this ray of light in my tomb? I seem to see an angel, amid a scent of roses" sings Florestan in Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera. The role of scents, smells, fragrances, and odours in opera has long been neglected, just as how much opera and its stars have influenced the world of perfumery from the nineteenth century to the present day. In the first book-length study on the topic, Professor Mary May Robertson explores the relationship between opera, perfumes, and their respective protagonists in order to map out the previously undiscussed connection between the two. Through compelling close readings of librettos and rigorous research through thousands of bottles of perfume, the reader will come to appreciate and recognise the influences and exchanges between operas and perfumes and their ultimate marriage in the previously unrecognised genre of Operatic Perfumes, which is to say, perfumes named after operas, composers, and their divas.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Robertson, Mary May The Marriage Between Perfume and the Lyric Stage

ISBN:

1-5275-3128-7