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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-02 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 40
Pages: 40
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Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-21 - Publisher:
In the mid-nineteenth century Giacomo Meyerbeer dominated the operatic world. The first Jewish composer to achieve international fame, he staged his grand opera
Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, a
Language: en
Pages: 540
Pages: 540
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-08-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why a