Enchantment
Subtitle: the seductress of opera
By: Jean Starobinski ; translated by C. Jon Delogu.
Contributors: Delogu, Christopher Jon.
Series: European perspectives
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780231140904
Subjects: Women in opera.; Seduction in opera.; Operas -- Characters.
Work titles: Enchanteresses.
Notes: Originally published: Les enchanteresses. Paris : Seuil, c 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-249) and index.
Table of contents: value: Singing and seducing; value: Mozart. The Da Ponte operas ; The marriage of Figaro ; Registers of excess: Don Giovanni ; Così fan tutte ; The promise of Idomeneo ; Lights and powers: The magic flute; value: Usurpations and revolts. Poppea victorious ; The magic of Alcina ; Love unto death: another Romeo ; Manon ; Ariane and Bluebeard; or, the useless rescue ; Elektra; or, The accomplishment of hatred; value: Ombra adorata. Ombra adorata.