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

by Heather Hadlock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691170851
• ISBN13: 9780691170855
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"