Gabriela Cruz

Grand Illusion

Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera

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Produktbeschreibung

A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780190915056
• ISBN-10: 0190915056
• Artikelnr.: 59082139

Autorenporträt

Gabriela Cruz is a musicologist specializing in opera and musical theater in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She teaches courses on nineteenth-century music, opera, and the music of the Iberian peninsula at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Note on Translations
List of Music Examples
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Modernity of Grand Opera
1. Opera and Beauty
2. Gaslight and Phantasmagoria at the Opéra
3. The Diorama, Apparitions and Dream Image in Robert le Diable
4. The Phantom Ship in Der fliegende Holländer and L'Africaine
5. The Poetics of Sensation in L'Africaine and Tristan und Isolde
6. Aida, Egyptomania and the After-Life of Grand Opera
Works Cited