Bodily Charm: Living OperaU of Nebraska Press, 2000 M01 1 - 347 páginas Bodily Charm is a passionate defense of opera as a living as well as live art. Written for both the opera lover and the specialist by a physician and a literary critic, it is an accessible and engaging interdisciplinary exploration of the operatic body?both the actual physical bodies of the singers and audience members and the represented body on stage in operas such as Death in Venice, Salome, Rigoletto, Der Ring des Nibelungen, and Elektra. |
Contenido
List of Illustrations | vii |
The Body Beautiful | 1 |
REAL BODIES | 113 |
The Perceiving Body | 153 |
POSTLUDE | 183 |
Notes | 197 |
| 341 | |
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