CSU-Carig
Smart, Mary Ann
Mimomania [electronic resource] : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - 1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0520239954 (alk. paper)
Opera—Europe—19th century.
Gesture in opera.
782.109034
Mimomania [electronic resource] : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera / - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. - 1 online resource (ix, 247 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0520239954 (alk. paper)
Opera—Europe—19th century.
Gesture in opera.
782.109034