Grand Opera: Mirror of the Western Mind - Couverture rigide

Plaut, Eric A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1566630347 ISBN 13 : 9781566630344

Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Employing a remarkable combination of expertise in music, opera, and psychological insight, Eric Plaut explores the great operas and their composers from the time of the French Revolution to the onset of the First World War. He sees opera as the preeminent medium for expressing human willfulness, its characters driven by emotions of passionate intensity. The great composers of opera were also governed by their feelings and heavily influenced by the life of their time. Weaving together these social, psychological, and historical strains, Dr. Plaut investigates the meaning behind eighteen of the greatest operas, including Tristan and Isolde, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, The Barber of Seville, Aida, Tales of Hoffmann, Fidelio, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen, Boris Godounov, Otello, Salome, and Faust. At the same time he looks into the lives of their composers, seeking those experiences and characteristics which help to explain both the opera in question and the composers larger body of works. The result is an unusually satisfying and perceptive view of grand opera, a book that will be essential for opera lovers and informative and entertaining for general readers.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Eric Plaut is a practicing psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He has been writing on the psychological aspects of opera since 1986.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566630347
• ISBN 13: 9781566630344
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 333
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible