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

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...

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Main Author: Hadlock, Heather
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Princeton Studies in Opera
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Online Access:CONNECT