Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / by Smart, Mary Ann

Table of 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.…”
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Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / by Smart, Mary Ann

Table of 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.…”
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First nights at the opera / by Kelly, Thomas Forrest

Table of Contents: “…. -- Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots : Paris, February 29, 1836, 7:00 p.m. -- Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold : Bayreuth, August 13, 1876, 7:00 p.m. -- Giuseppe Verdi, Otello : Milan, February 5, 1887, 8:15 p.m.…”