Mad Loves
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780691058023
Subjects: Opera; Women in opera; Music; Music Of The 19th Century; Musical Composition; Music/Songbooks; Offenbach, Jacques,; Genres & Styles - Opera; Women's Studies - General; Gender Studies; Music / Opera; Contes d'Hoffmann; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Composition; 1819-1880; 1819-1880.
First sentence: THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY librettist, at least before the advent of Literaturoper, was not expected to treat literary sources with any particular reverence, and among librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carre have an unusually poor reputation in this regard.