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Grand Opera: Mirror of the Western Mind - Hardcover

Plaut, Eric A.

 
9781566630344: Grand Opera: Mirror of the Western Mind
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1566630347 ISBN 13: 9781566630344
Verlag: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

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 composer's 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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No medium can compare with opera in its expression of human willfulness nor in the intense passions of its characters. The great composers of opera were also governed by their feelings and heavily influenced by the life of their time. In this fascinating book, Eric Plaut employs a remarkable combination of expertise in music, opera, and psychology to explore the great operas and their composers from the time of the French Revolution to the onset of the First World War. Weaving together social, psychological, and historical strains, Plaut investigates the meaning behind eighteen of the greatest operas and their composers. They include Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Gounod's Faust, Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and The Ring, Verdi's Aida and Otello, Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. Bizet's Carmen, Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, Puccini's Tosca and Madame Butterfly, and Richard Strauss's Salome and Der Rosenkavalier. Looking into the lives of the composers, Plaut shows how their personalities and life experiences help to explain the particular opera as well as the composer's larger body of works. The result is an unusually satisfying and perceptive view of grand opera, a book that offers new perspectives on some great operas while providing intriguing glimpses into the psychological motivations of the great composers.

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Verlag
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1566630347
ISBN 13 
9781566630344
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
333
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