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Title: Opera: Desire, Disease, Death by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon ISBN: 0-8032-7318-5 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wealth of dark detail on opera's unique social situations
Comment: Opera has become yet another popular sport today,and thank someone that a growing number of essayists and scholars have switched away from the cloistered rigours of musical academia, an academia that simply analyzes how the notes and tones move and come toward organization. This is valuable but explains nothing of the especially fascinating aspects of opera,its historical,social and political dimensions This book indeed has a focus drawing the darker sides of opera's implications. Desire for instance hits us right in the face as in Bizet's "Carmen". There a town in Seville was the site of a tobacco factory employed by only scantily clad women. It was hot in Seville and men(this is a true story) travelled from all over Europe just for a glimpse of the flesh of women rolling these penis-shaped objects. The Hutcheon's bring fascinating detail to their subjects. Michael Hutcheon is a doctor and analyzes the prevalence of consumption and tuberculosis in 19th Century Europe the backdrop of Verdi's "La Traviata". There is story of a consumptive kept woman devoted to the love and desire in all night parties in Paris.But there is a very human side to her as well not simply an avaricious opportunist. Disease was a bourgeois curse at that time that threatened to disrupt the middle-class family values as well as a disruption of profit-making. It was these classes who were in attendance at the opera,so these themes indeed stuck a social resonance. Someone like Violetta Valery, Verdi's anti-heroine, was the focus of this disruption(Violetta after "violare" in Italian to violate). We learn also of the presence of syphillis as an extension of these disruptive disease. The prostitutes in Lille infected the master race during the Second World War, as a means of guerilla warfare, which worked quite well. Speaking about opera in this way drawing all these details from opera's story-lines,plots and aesthetic strategies makes fascinating reading as well as enriching opera's scholarship beyond the four-corners of the music.
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Title: Siren Songs by Mary Ann Smart ISBN: 069105813X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage by Herbert Lindenberger ISBN: 0804731055 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters by Paul A. Robinson ISBN: 0226721833 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Zizek, Mladen Dolar ISBN: 0415930170 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Opera: The Undoing of Women by Catherine Clement, Betsy Wing, Susan McClary ISBN: 0816635269 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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