Opera : the art of dying
Title:
Opera : the art of dying
Author:
Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Music and the "murky death" -- The contemplation of death -- Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- "All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Orphic rituals of bereavement -- "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide -- The undead.
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ISBN:
9780674013261
Format :
Book
