Mimomania : music and gesture in nineteenth-century opera /
Smart, Mary Ann.
Berkeley : University of California Press,
2006, c2004.
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.
Opera
Gesture in opera.