Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera /

Title:

Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera /

Author:

Smart, Mary Ann.

Format:

Book

Institution:

New England Conservatory

Contents:

In praise of overstatement -- Wagner's cancan, Fenella's leap ; La muette de Portici and Auber's reality effect -- Bellini's unseen voices -- "Every word made flesh" ; Les Huguenots and the incarnation of the invisible -- Uneasy bodies : Verdi and sublimation -- Mimomania : allegory and embodiment in Wagner's music dramas.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML1720.4.S47 M5 – Available

• Available Temporarily at New England Conservatory Spaulding Reserve Desk
  On reserve for Mhst530 Topics in the 19th C: Verdi (Music History: Greenwald)