| #4153091 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2000-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.00 | File Name: 0691058024 | 192 pages |
|||"While Hadlock's reading of Hoffman against its sources affords many keen insights, her reading of the opera against itself is even more revealing. . . . A work of scintillating intelligence and endlessly intriguing possibilities."--M. Lignana Rosenberg, <
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 c...
